Trusted advice on legal technology, from the people who build it.
We help Canadian courts, tribunals, law firms and clinics understand what technology can do for them, and what it cannot.
These are the questions we get asked.
- Can technology help us reduce our backlog?
- What are other Canadian courts and tribunals doing about AI?
- How can we make it easier for parties to electronically file large documents?
- How do we make our forms easier to fill out?
- Our staff answer the same questions all day. Can any of that be automated?
- Is this AI tool worth what they are charging?
- What is ‘hallucination’, and how does it work?
- We’re a small firm with no IT budget. Where do we start?
- Can we use AI without putting privilege at risk?
- How do we automate our client-intake process?
Where Courtready has been recognized and cited.
Recognition
OBA Foundation Award
Co-founder Tom Macintosh Zheng is this year’s recipient of the Ontario Bar Association’s OBA Foundation Award, which recognizes exceptional contributions to the improvement of the justice system through public legal education, innovative research, or other means.
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The Rise of AI-Hallucinated Case Law in Canadian Courts and Tribunals
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CanLII research cited
Enhancing trust in artificial intelligence through increased transparency
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CanLII research cited
Droit de la famille — 261234, 2026 QCCA 1092
Cited at para. 28.
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CanLII research cited
2026 ONLSTH 112, Reasons for Decision on Costs of Motions
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The rise of vibe lawyering
AI is emboldening people to represent themselves in court. The results are mixed.
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AI companies must be held responsible for the hallucinations that bog down courts
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AI ‘gone awry’ made up case law, a Manitoba court says. Justice experts say it highlights a lack of access
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AI-fabricated legal citations in Canadian courts ‘tip of the iceberg,’ expert warns
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Toronto lawyer who filed AI-generated ‘gibberish’ ordered to pay record costs award — ‘Artificial intelligence can’t think like a lawyer’
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Canadian Lawyer survey: How Canada’s courts are regulating, using, and evaluating generative AI
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Lawyer who used AI-fabricated citations hit with $31,150 in costs to LSO
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Canada’s national AI strategy leaves out the justice system
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A lawyer and an AI scientist.
Tom Macintosh Zheng is the co-founder of courtready.ca and a licensed lawyer in Ontario, Canada and England. Before launching Courtready, he practised commercial litigation in downtown Toronto. Tom has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and the Federal Court of Appeal.
Tom’s research into how AI is disrupting Canadian courts has been covered by Canadian and international media, and cited by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, the Court of Appeal of Québec and Ontario’s Law Society Tribunal.
Tom is this year’s recipient of the Ontario Bar Association’s OBA Foundation Award, which recognizes exceptional contributions to the improvement of the justice system.
Soheil Kianzad is the co-founder of courtready.ca. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia and brings an academic and industry background in artificial intelligence, applied research, and technology-driven problem solving.
Before launching Courtready, he worked in research and engineering roles across academia and industry, focusing on building reliable, aligned AI systems and translating complex technical concepts into practical tools.
His work emphasizes responsible AI design, alignment with real-world constraints, and the deployment of scalable, trustworthy AI solutions in high-stakes domains.