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2024 FC 2038 | Naqvi v. Canada (Attorney General) | FC | 2,024 | [1] The Applicant, a self-represented litigant, seeks judicial review of a decision of the Social Security Tribunal’s Appeal Division [Appeal Division] denying his application for leave to appeal a decision of the Tribunal’s General Division. The General Division upheld the Employment Insurance Commission’s [Commission... | https://canlii.ca/t/k8h9q | Upstream license not provided. Note: This is an unofficial reproduction of a FC decision, without endorsement or affiliation by the FC. | true | annotator | [
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2006 FCA 219 | Canada (Attorney General) v. Côté | FCA | 2,006 | [1] Once again, this is a case of the disqualification of a person from Employment Insurance benefits on the ground that she left her employment to study.
[2] The respondent held employment as a student security officer at the Charlevoix Casino while she was finishing her CEGEP courses i... | https://canlii.ca/t/1q9br | Upstream license not provided. Note: This is an unofficial reproduction of a FCA decision, without endorsement or affiliation by the FCA. | true | annotator | [
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Canada (Attorney General) v Marier | Canada (Attorney General) v. Marier | UNKNOWN | 2,012 | [1] The Employment Insurance Commission [the Commission] denied the claim for employment insurance benefits of Mr. Marier [the respondent] on the grounds that he had voluntarily left one of his two positions without just cause and that it was not his only reasonable alternative. The Board of Referees allo... | https://canlii.ca/t/g1069 | Upstream license not provided. Note: This is an unofficial reproduction of a legal decision, without endorsement or affiliation by the original court, tribunal or other source. | true | annotator | [
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2009 FCA 122 | Canada (Attorney General) v. Richard | FCA | 2,009 | [1] Did the Umpire (CUB 70980) err in law in his interpretation of subparagraph 29(c)(vi) and section 30 of the Employment Insurance Act, S.C. 1996, c. 23 (the Act).
[2] The combined effect of these provisions is to disqualify workers from receiving unemployment benefits if they voluntar... | https://canlii.ca/t/25k0m | Upstream license not provided. Note: This is an unofficial reproduction of a FCA decision, without endorsement or affiliation by the FCA. | true | annotator | [
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2008 FCA 18 | Canada (Attorney General) v. Langlois (F.C.A.) | FCA | 2,008 | [1] Did the claimant have just cause, under paragraph 29(c) [as am. by S.C. 2000, c. 12, s. 108] of the Employment Insurance Act, S.C. 1996, c. 23 (the Act), to leave a permanent employment in order to take another permanent, but seasonal, employment at a higher wage? Second, having regard to the circumstances of ... | https://canlii.ca/t/1w03c | Upstream license not provided. Note: This is an unofficial reproduction of a FCA decision, without endorsement or affiliation by the FCA. | true | annotator | [
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2025 FC 169 | Yang v. Canada (Attorney General) | FC | 2,025 | [1] This is an application for judicial review of a decision by the Social Security Tribunal of Canada [SST], Appeal Division [the Appeal Division] dated March 26, 2024 [the Decision]. In the Decision, the Appeal Division refused the Applicant leave to appeal a decision of the SST, General Division, Employment Insuranc... | https://canlii.ca/t/k94g1 | Upstream license not provided. Note: This is an unofficial reproduction of a FC decision, without endorsement or affiliation by the FC. | true | annotator | [
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2015 FC 1142 | Bossé v. Canada (Attorney General) | FC | 2,015 | [1] The applicant is seeking to have set aside a decision rendered on February 3, 2015, by a member of the Appeal Division of the Social Security Tribunal of Canada [Tribunal] refusing leave to appeal from a decision of the General Division of the Tribunal, dated April 15, 2014, concerning his Employment ... | https://canlii.ca/t/gp3x0 | Upstream license not provided. Note: This is an unofficial reproduction of a FC decision, without endorsement or affiliation by the FC. | true | annotator | [
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1996 CARSWELLNAT 350 | Canada (Attorney General) v. Stevens | UNKNOWN | 1,996 | The judgment of the court was delivered by Linden J.A.::
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1994 CARSWELLNAT 834 | Canada (Attorney General) v. Martel | UNKNOWN | 1,994 | The judgment of the court was delivered by Desjardins J.A. (orally):
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SOR/2022-256 | Social Security Tribunal Rules of Procedure | STATUTE | 2,022 | Notice of Appeal
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(a) the appellant’s full name;
(b) the appellant’s contact information;
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Employment Insurance Act, SC 1996, c 23 | Employment Insurance Act | STATUTE | 1,996 | Disqualification — general
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Dataset Card for CanLegalRAGBench
A dataset for Canadian lase law RAG task
This dataset contains mainly case law from different Canadian sources and very few legislations. The queries are designed to mimic real questions from assorted users of an AI chatbot. The queries were generated via Gemini-2.5-Pro and a sample was verified by an industry expert.
Case laws were gathered via expert human annotators for ground truth retrieval. We supplement Case law through the A2AJ Canadian Legal Dataset (https://huggingface.co/datasets/a2aj/canadian-case-law) and from private documenents provided by CasewayAI
Dataset Details
Dataset Description
- Curated by: [UBC NLP Lab]
- Funded by [Mitacs, Caseway]: [This project was funded by a Mitacs/Caseway collaboration to improve access to Canadian Justice]
- Language(s) (NLP): [English, some French in English documents]
- License: [The code and dataset annotations for this project and other works developed from it are subject to an open source MIT license. Retrieval Document source texts are subject to their own source's license ]
Dataset Sources [optional]
- Code Repository: [Coming soon]
- Paper : [Coming soon on arxiv]
Uses
This dataset is intended to be used for research into developing AI systems that improve justice. We provide legal queries and their ground truth documents that should be retrieved to help answer the query. We also provide answers generated by an LLM and edited/verified by expert annotators using the ground truth documents as context for the LLM. This allows evaluation of retrieval as well as text generation for answering legal queries. The answers are not all complete as they are based off retrieved documents that were gathered under a time budget. When they are not complete, they hedge what information is missing from the documents.
Each unique source has a separate license, generally quite liberal for research. For commercial applications, the licenses are stricter than for research. Make sure to contact each court for commercial purposes.
Out-of-Scope Use
The dataset is not intended for use as an absolute benchmark. It is indended to be used for comparative evaluation. If methods obtain high scores, that does not mean they should be relied on for legal analysis and professional work. All work should be verified by legal professionals before being submitted under official legal processes.
Dataset Structure
The retrieval documents have fields: ['citation', 'name', 'original_source', 'year', 'text', 'url', 'upstream_license', 'is_ground_truth', 'dataset_source', 'ground_truth_query_ids']
- The 'name' is generally the name of the case. They are generally standardized but due to human annotation as well as diverse sources, formats diverge.
- The 'original_source' the source of the document's text (court, tribunal, etc)
- The 'year' is the year the document was published
- The 'text' is the unofficial main text of the document.
- The 'url' is the url where you can view the document from an official website. Generally filled, some are missing.
- The 'upstream_license' is the license provided by the A2AJ dataset if provided.
- The 'is_ground_truth' determines if the document has a query that it is a ground truth retrieval document for.
- The 'dataset_source' is one of ['annotator', 'canadian-case-law', 'caseway'] which mean that we either got the document from our human annotators, the A2AJ CLD or Caseway respectively.
- The 'ground_truth_query_ids' is all the query ids that the document is a ground truth retrieval document for.
The queries have fields: ['query_id', 'query_text', 'answer', 'batch_id', 'ground_truth_citations', 'province']
- The query_id is the unique id of the query (not ordered due to filtering)
- The query_text is text of the query
- The answer is the human submitted answer to the query text
- The batch_id is the id of the batch of 8 which the query corresponds to. Each batch has very similar facts and retrieved documents
- The ground_truth_citations is the list of documents that are the ground truth documents to retrieve
- The province is the province jurisdiction context under which the ground truth documents were retrieved under
Dataset Creation
Details of the dataset creation are detailed in our paper [coming soon]
Who are the annotators?
We employed senior legal students and a paralegal for data annotation
Personal and Sensitive Information
We only provided personal information that was already publicized in the published documents. We do not make previously non public information public.
Dataset Card Contact
contact ethan.zhao@ubc.ca for questions or inquiries
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