How to Use Legal Research
The only place to search for timely and relevant tenancy court orders across various parameters
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Who can use this feature
→ Anyone on the Openroom Community plan
→ Anyone on the Openroom Plus plan
→ Anyone on the Openroom Enterprise plan
Before you start searching
All searchers must have an Openroom account before you can conduct research.
Types of Searches
There are two types of searches within Openroom.
First, Public Record Search - most prominently used for tenant screening purposes. See more on how to conduct a public record search of persons or addresses thoroughly.
Second, Legal Research - for preparation for the next court hearing purposes. This article talks about Legal Research.
How to Conduct Legal Case Searches
Openroom was built for the intended purpose of empowering the public community to make more informed rental decisions. We give you data and information, you use it to formulate your own opinions.
You can search by the following in the search bar
Begin your free searches by clicking into the Legal Research product: https://openroom.ca/dashboard/legal-research
→ Adjudicator / Judge Name
→ Legal Representative→ Minimum Rent Owed
→ Issued After a certain date
→ Ontario Landlord & Tenant Board specific Topics
You can filter for specific topics to do more research on them
→ Filed by Tenant
→ Filed by Landlord→ Non-payment of rent (N4)
→ Persistent late payment (N8)
→ Tenant rights (T2)
→ Personal use (N12)
→ Bad faith eviction (T5)
→ Maintenance (T6)
To conduct a full roster of searches as a Landlord, you should search:
You should be using Public Record Search product when searching Tenant names.
→ Name of past tenants (Use our Public Record Search product)
→ Aliases / Nick names of tenants (Use our Public Record Search product)→ All past addresses (Use our Public Record Search product)
→ Names of past landlords (Use Legal Research product)
To conduct a full roster of searches as a Tenant, you should search:
→ Name(s) of future property manager
→ Name(s) of future companies involved (because sometimes the landlord could be a company)
Results per Search
There are thousands of records inside the Openroom Court Order Search Engine. Depending on the plan you have, it will yield a different number of results per each search you do.
Plan Differences per Search
→ Anyone on the Openroom Community plan can see 10 results per search
→ Anyone on the Openroom Plus plan can see up to 100 results per search
To see more information about a particular record, you can select a record to view it.
→ Hearing details
→ Court order Details
→ The PDF document of the original order
The Openroom's NIKA Bot Functions 🤖
When you send in an order, Openroom’s Nika Bot does the first pass to assess authenticity of your document and extract the relevant fields we want to know from the document.
Nika Bot has done a fabulous job extracting information from court orders but sometimes it makes mistakes.
If you happen to see one, please report a mistake to us using the red button on the top right hand corner. We value the community's help in maintaining a robust, relevant, and timely Openroom search engine.
If you believe something should be visible but it's not, please contact us at [email protected] so we can look into it.