Courts of Canada Directory

Canada runs parallel court systems. Federal courts (the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Tax Court) handle constitutional appeals, federal-law disputes, immigration reviews, and tax cases. Everything else happens in provincial courts: each province runs a trial court, a superior court, and a court of appeal (Nunavut uniquely combines its trial courts into one).

For records, the rule of thumb: written decisions from every one of these courts are free on CanLII; the underlying case files live with the registry of the court that heard the matter, and each province runs its own file-search service. The directory below links every federal court and each province's court system.

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