LawHub

Inspiration

LawHub is a comprehensive legal information platform designed to make Canadian law more accessible to the public. The platform aggregates and summarizes federal, provincial, and municipal laws

What it does

📚 Law Database

• Aggregated summaries of Canadian laws across different jurisdictions
• Focus on criminal law aspects
• Organized by federal, provincial, and municipal levels

🗺️ Legal Process Roadmap

• Interactive visualization of the legal process
• Step-by-step guide from conviction to verdict
• Information about appeals and court hierarchies

💬 Legal Assistant Chatbot

• Interactive chat interface for legal queries
• User-friendly responses to common legal questions
• Located conveniently at the corner of the website

How we built it

Technology Stack

• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript
• TailwindCSS
• Vercel (Deployment)

Technology We Scrapped

• React
• Node.js
• OpenAI integration

Challenges we ran into

• Ran into issues with framework
• Ran into issues with ai chatbot
• Ran into issues with database api

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Learning and working with new technologies
• Collaborating and teamwork
• Actually creating something

What we learned

• How we would create an application using a proper framework
• Capabilities of backend
• Teamwork using github, version control

What's next for LawHub

• Integration with CANLII API
• Expansion to cover civil law and copyright law
• Enhanced chatbot functionality using OpenAI API

Built With

• css
• github
• html
• javascript
• openai
• tailwindcss
• vercel
• vscode