Editorial Standards

Olanur publishes guides to help people in Canada understand a legal problem and decide what to do next. This page explains how those guides are made, what they can't do for you, and how to tell us when one is wrong.

What Olanur is

Olanur is a technology platform and online legal marketplace. We are not a law firm and not a lawyer referral service. Our guides are general information, not legal advice, and reading one doesn't create a lawyer-client relationship. For advice on your own situation, speak with a licensed lawyer or paralegal.

Who prepares our guides

Our guides are researched and prepared by Olanur's editorial team and published under the name Olanur Editorial Team. The sources behind a guide matter, which is why we name them.

Where the information comes from

Legal rules, deadlines, fees and statistics in our guides come from sources such as:

• federal and provincial legislation and regulations, read on Justice Laws and Ontario e-Laws
• court and tribunal decisions, usually on CanLII
• court, tribunal and government websites
• the Law Society of Ontario and Legal Aid Ontario
• Statistics Canada

We don't invent figures. Statutory amounts are given as the law states them. Legal fee ranges are labelled as typical ranges, and they are not quotes.

How a new guide is checked

• The main sources are read when the guide is written, and we record the version or date we read.
• A separate accuracy check compares the guide's figures, dates, quotations and citations with those sources. Errors it finds are corrected on or before the day the guide is published.
• Our newer guides carry a research note near the top that names the main sources and the date we read them. Some older guides don't have this note yet.

This check can't catch everything. Calculators and interactive tools give estimates, so confirm any result that matters with the official source or a lawyer.

Updates and corrections

Laws, fees and deadlines change. Each guide shows the date it was last updated, so check that date before relying on it.

If you think something is wrong or out of date, email info@olanur.com or use our contact form. Tell us which page and what you think needs fixing, with a source if you have one. We check reports against the source. If the guide is wrong, we correct it and change its updated date.

Our commercial interest

Olanur is a business. Our guides link to our lawyer-matching service, which is free for people looking for a lawyer, and we also offer services to lawyers and law firms. Where a free route exists, such as Legal Aid Ontario, a community legal clinic or the Law Society Referral Service, we aim to say so.