Canada wide, educational use

Student tools for Canadian law students

Structured, deterministic helpers for citation, research, and advocacy work. Every tool runs in your browser. Your inputs are not saved.

Citation and writing

Canadian Legal Citation Builder

Structured Canadian legal citation support. You supply every field and verify the result.

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Table of Authorities Builder

Group the citations you enter by category, sort them alphabetically, and export a clean list.

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Citation Checker

Run limited mechanical checks on a single Canadian citation. Never asserts compliance.

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Research and study

Case Brief Builder

Structure a decision into facts, issues, holding, reasoning, ratio, and disposition. You supply every field.

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Legal Research Query Builder

Compose CanLII-style Boolean and proximity queries from your own terms. Does not run searches.

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Advocacy

Moot Court Toolkit

Plan, time, and rehearse your own oral submissions. Includes a wall-clock timer, outline planner, bench question log, and authorities checklist.

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Compare the six tools

Every tool is deterministic and runs entirely in your browser. None of them reads a database of law, and none of them can tell you whether your work is correct.

Comparison of the six Student Tools by task, inputs, output, what is not checked, privacy, and best companion guide
Tool	Task	Inputs	Output	Not checked	Privacy	Best companion guide
Canadian Legal Citation Builder	Format one citation from fields you enter.	Source type and each metadata field, typed by you.	A formatted citation string you can copy.	Whether the metadata is accurate, or whether the source exists.	In-browser only; nothing sent or stored.	How to verify a Canadian legal citation
Citation Checker	Run mechanical checks on a citation you paste.	One citation string.	A list of possible mechanical problems, with no pass or fail verdict.	Substantive accuracy, currency of the law, or compliance with any style guide.	In-browser only; nothing sent or stored.	How to verify a Canadian legal citation
Table of Authorities Builder	Group and sort the citations for a factum or paper.	Your citation list and a category for each entry.	A grouped, alphabetically sorted table you can copy.	Whether each citation is correct, or whether the categories match your rules.	In-browser only; nothing sent or stored.	How to verify a Canadian legal citation
Case Brief Builder	Structure a decision you have read into a brief.	Your own summary of facts, issues, holding, reasoning, ratio and disposition.	A formatted case brief you can copy.	Whether your ratio is right, or whether you missed a material fact.	In-browser only; nothing sent or stored.	How to read and brief a Canadian court decision
Legal Research Query Builder	Compose a Boolean and proximity search string.	Concepts, synonyms, phrases and optional filters.	A query string you run yourself on CanLII or another service.	Whether the query finds the right law - it never executes a search.	In-browser only; nothing sent or stored.	How to research Canadian law on CanLII
Moot Court Toolkit	Plan, time and rehearse your own oral submissions.	Your outline, time allocations, bench questions and authorities list.	A timed outline, question log and authorities checklist.	The strength of your argument or the adequacy of your answers.	In-browser only; nothing sent or stored.	How to read and brief a Canadian court decision

Two sample workflows

Workflow 1: a graded case comment

Turn your question into concepts and build a search string in the Legal Research Query Builder, then run it yourself on CanLII.
Read the decision in full and structure it in the Case Brief Builder: facts, issues, holding, reasoning, ratio, disposition.
Build each citation in the Canadian Legal Citation Builder from the source document in front of you, not from a secondary reference.
Run each finished citation through the Citation Checker for mechanical problems, then confirm the format against the current guide your course requires.
Collect the citations into the Table of Authorities Builder for your appendix.

Workflow 2: preparing for a moot

Find and note up your leading authorities using the Legal Research Query Builder, then read them.
Brief each one in the Case Brief Builder so you can state the ratio cleanly.
Build the factum citations and assemble them in the Table of Authorities Builder.
Use the Moot Court Toolkit to outline your submissions, rehearse against the timer, and log bench questions so you can prepare answers before the next round.

Academic integrity

These tools help you with structure and mechanics. You remain responsible for the accuracy of your sources, the substance of your work, and compliance with your school, course, journal, or court requirements. Do not use them to generate content you have not read or understood. Independent educational tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by McGill University, the McGill Law Journal, Thomson Reuters/Carswell, Zotero, CSL, or CanLII. Verify every citation against the current guide and any court, journal, professor, or faculty instructions.

What these tools will not do. They will not write an argument, summarise a case you have not read, decide what a decision stands for, tell you whether an authority is still good law, or certify that a citation complies with any guide. Every output is a rearrangement of text you typed.

Your obligations. Most Canadian law schools treat unattributed or unverified tool output as an academic offence. Check your faculty's academic integrity policy and your instructor's rules on permitted tools before you rely on anything here, and disclose tool use where you are required to.

Last reviewed: 19 July 2026