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What Hyperlaw is, what it covers, and how to use this guide.

Hyperlaw is a linked, searchable edition of legislation and case law. It is built from official sources, but it is not an official version of any text: the authoritative copies remain with the publisher. See sources and disclaimers for the notices that apply to each corpus.

Law as a linked text

Most legal websites give you a document. Hyperlaw gives you a graph. Every provision is a node with a stable citation path, and every reference the engine can resolve is an edge. A section of the Criminal Code can link to the Charter, the Charter to the cases that interpret it, and a judgment back to the provisions it applies.

That structure is the point: you should be able to read a provision, follow its references, and see what cites it without losing your place or guessing at a target.

What you can do

Browse the graphStart from the landing page, switch jurisdictions, and open any Act, regulation or case in the map.Open the landing page →SearchSearch titles, citations, provision text, case names and judgment paragraphs across a corpus.Search the corpus →Read a statuteOpen a consolidated Act, work through its table of contents, and follow the links in its text.Open the Criminal Code →Read a caseSee the parties, the bench, the opinions, the paragraphs or printed pages, and what the judgment cites.Open a SCC judgment →Go back in timeWhere point-in-time snapshots exist, read a federal Act as it stood on an earlier date.Open the history page →Use the toolsQuery the corpus through the JSON API or MCP, or upload your own document to the Reader.Read about the tools →

What is loaded

The site currently carries Canadian federal legislation and Supreme Court of Canada judgments, the legislation of British Columbia, New Brunswick and Ontario, EU primary law, German and Swiss federal legislation, UK Public General Acts, Irish Acts as enacted, the United States Code, the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Reports, and the statutes and historical case reporters of California, New York and Delaware.

Jurisdictions and sources lists each corpus, its route, language and currentness. The unlisted data coverage dashboard shows what is live, what is staged and what is still planned.

How this guide is organised

The sidebar groups the guide into four kinds of page. Finding your way around covers the graph, the jurisdiction map, the browse panel and search. Reading a statute or regulation and Citations and hover previews explain the reading surface. Case pages and Point-in-time history cover the two specialised views. The remaining pages are reference material for the API, the Reader, shortcuts and URLs.