Decisia

Organise and provide easy access to your legal information on your own environment

From courts and tribunals to associations and law firms, a wide array of organizations entrusted with managing or disseminating legal information count on Decisia as their go-to document access solution. Moreover, Decisia clients have the option to harness our cutting-edge AI-powered features to their advantage. These features seamlessly generate concise and well-organized summaries of both judicial and administrative decisions. These summaries encompass crucial elements such as facts, procedural history, submissions by parties involved, legal issues, dispositions, and reasoning.

Features designed by legal research specialists

A flexible, powerful publishing tool

Decisia automatically converts, indexes, and provides access to case law, legislation or secondary material in HTML5 and PDF. The Decisia interface blends into the design of your website or your intranet. Its data structure adapts to your needs thanks to a large selection of metadata fields.

Find what you need quickly and smartly

Specifically tailored for legal research, Decisia generates search results in a split second when searching through millions of documents. Decisia is also packed with features facilitating search and increasing relevancy, including AI-powered summaries, a spelling corrector, query auto-completion, search snippets, and keyword highlights.

Effortless content updates

Data entry can be completed manually, via web interfaces; partially automated, using Decisia's auto-fill feature; or fully automated, with an API. Decisia’s auto-fill function can retrieve dates, citations, docket numbers, case names and much more directly from the text of your documents with one simple click. Its API can be used to synchronize data from your existing Court Management System (CMS), document management system (DMS) or any other database.

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A white label solution

Decisia is skinned to take on the look and feel of your existing website. Furthermore, your Decisia is made accessible under your subdomain, for example, decisions.yourdomain.com.

A secure research space for internal users

Decisia features a secure space providing intranet users and subscribers with privileged access to restricted databases and documents. User groups can be setup, allowing for granular access control of documents. User rights and groups are managed through the web-based administration interface.

Current awareness tools

Users can subscribe to RSS feeds or email alerts to receive regular updates about new content added to your Decisia account. JSON feeds and syndication mechanisms can be turned on as well if your content should be shared with third party publishers.

Accessible

Decisia is compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA. WCAG’s guidelines have been incorporated into several regulatory instruments. Decisia lets you give persons with disabilities adequate access to your documents.

Powerful DMS capabilities

Decisia offers an audit trail showing the history of all database records, including any creation, updating and deletion of content. The audit trail contains information about the user involved as well as a time stamp showing when the change occurred.

No infrastructure or IT resources at your end

Hosted and supported by Lexum, Decisia offers enterprise-level uptime and security while you access and manage your content via user-friendly web-based interfaces. Decisia does not require any infrastructure or other IT resources at your end. Its API can be used to automatically update your account with data originating from within your existing Court Management System (CMS) or any other type of Document Management System (DMS). Connectors are already available for myCaseLoad, the Cyberjustice PARLe, the PWC Dispute Resolution Suite, and LawQube.

AI-Powered Summaries

Powered by AI, one of Decisia's functions is to automatically generate concise, organized summaries of judicial and administrative decisions, covering facts, procedural history, parties' submissions, legal issues, dispositions, and reasons. We can customize the summaries to meet your unique requirements, adjust formats, or add sections. The user-friendly interface allows effortless review and modification of the AI-powered summaries, ensuring complete control.

Quick set-up, including your archives

Within a couple of weeks, your Decisia is fully set up, including the loading of your archives, and you can start managing and publishing your documents.

We're with you all the way

Our training, phone and email support provide a complete assistance package aimed at making your use of Decisia enjoyable and hassle-free. Our editorial team can even take care of publishing your legal information for you.

Decisia in action

Canada’s First-Ever Legal Website

The Supreme Court of Canada judgments website was launched by Lexum in 1992, and was the very first legal website to be developed in Canada. At the time there were only three other websites in the country. It was also the world’s first bilingual legal website.

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Emily C. Drown
Emily C. Drown | Chair, BC Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal

“We chose to use Decisia to make our public record of decisions easily accessible and fully searchable.   The database blends seamlessly with our website and is easy to use.  Prior to using Decisia our tribunal decisions were posted to our website by category type but could not be searched.  Having easily accessible and searchable decisions increases our transparency and advances access to justice.”

‐  Emily C. Drown, Chair, BC Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal
Melissa Trasky
Melissa Trasky | Director of Administration, NYC Office of Collective Bargaining

“We can’t say enough positive things about Lexum and its fabulous staff. Decisia is not just the best fit for our needs, but at every turn, their staff has gone above and beyond to make sure we are satisfied and provided tailored services adapted to our needs. They have been responsive and “on it.” In short, we can’t recommend them enough!”

‐  Melissa Trasky, Director of Administration, NYC Office of Collective Bargaining

Documentation and best practices

Using the Decisia Administrative Interface (for Editors)

2017-09-15 / By Lexum

Documentation detailing how Decisia editors can configure and update their databases using Decisia web-based administrative interface. View this document with  Qweri . ...

The Preparation, Citation and Distribution of Canadian Decisions

2009-04-13 / By Frédéric Pelletier, Ruth Rintoul, Daniel Poulin

Canadian Citation Committee Final version: 2009-04-02 The origins of the present guidelines date back to 1996, when the Judges Technology Advisory Committee (JTAC) of the Canadian Judicial Council adopted the Standards for the Preparation, Distribution and Citation of Canadian Judgments in Electronic Form. This document opened the way to a standardization...

Case Naming Guidelines

2009-02-27 / By Frédéric Pelletier, Ruth Rintoul, Daniel Poulin

In these Guidelines, the case name is the abbreviated title of a decision. These guidelines allow you to create a case name that is both concise and meaningful, based on the names of the main parties involved in the case. View this document with  Qweri . ...