In the spring of 2020, we posted an analysis of the Supreme Court of Canada's
2019 Year in Review and summarized some of the statistics
found in that document. Unfortunately, the general statistics found
in the 2019 Year Review were high level and limited the analysis we
could provide about what was happening at the Supreme Court of
Canada. We also could not find any publicly available and current
datasets that would allow us to provide a more detailed
analysis.
So, under our newly launched Data-Driven Decisions program, we decided
to create our own dataset, and that led to what we call the Supreme
Court of Canada Leave Project. In brief, we built a database that
contains information about every leave application decision
released by the Supreme Court of Canada from January 1, 2018
onward. At the time of launch, this includes over 1,600 decisions,
but the total number of cases increases each week as more leave
decisions are released.
