Any lawyers here?

[dognutz]

I searched Google but was wondering if there is anywhere to search if there is an existing or past civil cases against a particular person or business? In ontario

 

[SchlongConery]

I searched Google but was wondering if there is anywhere to search if there is an existing or past civil cases against a particular person or business? In ontario

Canadian Legal Information Institute | CanLII

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But afaik, it does not include filed but settled or discontinued actions.

It can also omit cases that are not particularly notable for one reason or another.

But it's free and you can easily conduct a search with the names of the party/parties you are interested in.


I don't know how to do it but I think there is some way to search the Court's records if you know the Court it might have been filed in.

Lawyers have better subscription (expensive) tools like https://www.lexisnexis.ca/en-ca/home.page


If those don't help and you are just trying to do a quick and dirty background check on who you might be.doing business with, you can google and email a law firm in the field the party of your interest and ask them for a price to have a law clerk or articling student to just search the info... but not asking them to give legal advice.