The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) is a non-profit organization created and funded by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, on behalf of its 14 member law societies. CanLII is also a member of the Free Access to Law Movement

Free Access to Law Movement

The Free Access to Law Movement is the umbrella name for the collective of legal projects across several common law countries to provide free online access to legal information such as case law and legislation. The movement began in 1992 with the creation of the Cornell Law School Legal Information...

, which includes the primary stakeholders involved in free, open publication of law throughout the world.

CanLII offers free public access to approximately 1 million documents across nearly 200 case law and legislative databases. It is used by lawyers, legal professionals and the general public, with usage averaging over 20,000 visits per day.