Jureeka in Canada
It seems we have not posted Jureeka to Slaw yet. It is a service that provides linkages between legal information searchers and providers. As part of the effort, it offers a Firefox extension that detects legal citations on the web and displays them as links. The extension is now is functional for citations to Canadian resources, including
- The Constitution Acts (1867 and 1982)
- Supreme Court cases from 1876 to the present (S.C.R. and SCC citations)
- Federal Court cases from 1988 to the present (F.C. citations)
- Consolidated Statutes of Canada
- Consolidated Regulations of Canada
The fact that such extensions mess with, or ‘improve’ the work of the authors of webpages can be a bit of a problem sometimes, though. Especially if you have multiple such extensions attached to your browser. Thanks to Tim Knight for posting this to the CALL list.
UPDATE:
Some users have reported difficulties installing this add-on. Also, it has ‘experimental’ status at Mozilla, meaning it has not been fully tested…
It’s still being Beta tested, which also means it could potentially include malware.
I would encourage anyone with questions to contact the developer Michael Poulshock. He was very receptive when I asked him about the then absent Canadian resources adding the sources cited above almost immediately after I contacted him. As noted this is still in ‘beta’ but he is planning to continue to expand the Canadian sources. I seriously doubt there is any malicious intent underlying this add-on.