Litigation legal-AI skills in 🇨🇦 Canada

5 legal AI skills for litigation in Canada.

Canadian Court Document Downloader v2

MITCanadaLitigation

Canadian court document retrieval, BOA builder, batch downloader, duplicate detector, and OCR extractor. ALWAYS trigger when user says: 'download this case', 'get me the PDF', 'pull the judgment', 'build my BOA from these cases', 'attach the cases', 'batch download', 'find duplicate cases', 'extract text from this PDF', or provides a list of citations and wants the actual documents. Also trigger for: 'check if I already have this case', 'organize my cases', 'export my authorities to CSV', 'missing authority report', or any request to retrieve, organize, or analyze Canadian court documents. Aliases: court-downloader, boa-downloader, case-retriever, batch-downloader.

Counsel Research & Draft Pipeline

MITCanadaLitigation

Use when researching and drafting BC legal documents.

Evidence Law — Canadian and BC Practice

MITCanadaLitigation

Rules of evidence for Canadian and BC practice — relevance and materiality, admissibility distinct from weight, hearsay and its exceptions and the principled approach, privilege (solicitor-client, litigation, settlement, spousal, informer), best evidence rule, authentication, judicial notice, opinion evidence and the Mohan/White Burgess admissibility framework for experts, similar fact evidence, character evidence, prior consistent and inconsistent statements, documentary evidence, and the admissibility framework in administrative proceedings. ALWAYS trigger when: user is preparing an affidavit, drafting cross-examination questions, challenging opposing affidavit content, dealing with hearsay issues, working with expert reports, or asking about what evidence can or cannot be used. Pairs with supreme-court-litigation-counsel, bc-tenancy-procedure, and critical-reading/Module 4.

Supreme Court Civil Litigation Counsel

MITCanadaLitigation

Use when BC superior-court drafting or JR research is needed. Elite SRL-safe counsel framework with locked forms and fail-closed citations.

The Quebec legal system — access, courts, and finding the law

MITCanadaLitigation

How the Quebec legal system works and how to get into it — legal aid, municipal courts, how regulations are made, why LégisQuébec is authoritative, and the 1994 Civil Code changeover. Quoted from the official LégisQuébec texts (à jour 1 April 2026, retrieved 2026-07) of four statutes: A-14 (Act respecting legal aid), c-72.01 (Act respecting municipal courts), R-18.1 (Regulations Act), R-2.2.0.0.2 (Act respecting the Compilation of Québec Laws and Regulations), plus CCQ-1992 (implementation of the Civil Code reform). LEGAL AID (A-14): the two independent tests — financial (gratuitous where income/liquidities/assets are below the regulated level, with last-resort-assistance recipients automatically eligible, vs contributory where only income is tested) and subject matter (indictable and youth matters automatic; summary/penal conditional on imprisonment, loss of livelihood, best interests or interests of justice; family, youth protection, tutorship, designated benefit appeals; residual liberty and livelihood valves); minors free regardless of means for all services; exclusions (defamation as plaintiff, elections, parking) and the s. 4.11 subsidiarity rule making legal aid a last resort behind insurance, unions and other services; the s. 69 private-bar diversion; that s. 8 means losing still exposes you to the other side's costs; the s. 52 right to choose your own lawyer only if they accept the regulated tariff; the 30-day review under s. 74 which is final and without appeal under s. 79; a third party's 15-day right to contest your eligibility; and four free hours for victims of sexual or domestic violence regardless of eligibility. NOTE the Act contains NO dollar thresholds and no indexation clause — all delegated to regulation.