Preceda
Legal Research Engine

Search Canadian Case Law

Access judgements from federal courts. Search by legal concept, fact pattern, or keyword.

Built around your research workflow

Why Choose Preceda

The essentials for faster legal research and better file organization.

Search in Natural Language

Describe the issue in plain English or French instead of hunting for exact keywords.

Semantic Understanding

Surface relevant decisions by meaning, not just wording.

Comprehensive Coverage

Search Canadian federal court decisions from one place.

Lightning Fast

Get to strong results quickly and keep your research moving.

Precise Results

Review the most relevant decisions first.

Bilingual Support

Search and work seamlessly in English or French.

Concrete use cases for practice

A workflow designed for lawyers

Search from the facts, keep the best decisions in a project, organize the file, and generate summaries when you need a quicker read.

1

Start from the facts, not just keywords

Search in natural language and narrow results to selected courts when needed.

Get to analogous decisions faster when you are starting from a factual scenario or legal issue.

2

Save relevant decisions into a matter

Add useful decisions to a project instead of losing them across tabs.

Build a working file for a live matter with the authorities you actually want to keep and revisit.

3

Track files with projects, tags, and statuses

Organize research by client, issue, tags, and status.

Keep your dashboard structured by mandate, topic, or stage of work instead of managing research in scattered notes.

4

Generate structured case summaries

Generate AI summaries from saved decisions using the full text.

Prepare faster internal notes and first-pass analyses from the decisions already saved to the file.

For active matters

Start your next research file with a clearer workflow

Use semantic search to find relevant decisions, keep the strongest authorities in one project, and move faster from research to internal analysis.