Lexum is pleased to announce its latest version of Decisia: Decisia 5.1. Here’s what’s new: Greater Control of the Quality of your Metadata Input With Decisia 5.1, it becomes possible to make any metadata field mandatory. In addition to the metadata fields that were already mandatory by default (e.g.: the date), you can now decide […] Read more
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The Copyright Board of Canada Selects Decisia for its Upcoming Website
Lexum is proud to announce that Decisia will be used to provide access to the decisions and certified tariffs of the Copyright Board of Canada (CB) on its redesigned website to be launched later in 2019. The CB opted for Decisia to offer advanced legal research capabilities to its website users. Approximately 1,000 decisions and […] Read more
The Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal of British Columbia Adopts Decisia
Lexum is pleased to announce that the BC Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal (BCEAAT) has opted to use Decisia to provide access to its decisions online. Decisia will enable the BCEAAT to standardize how public and legal professionals get online access to the tribunals’ decisions, making it easy for users to conduct advanced legal research […] Read more
Qweri 2.1 – Faster Performance, Improved Footnotes, New Annotations Tool for Administrators & Better Management of Print Functionalities
Lexum is pleased to announce its latest version of Qweri: Qweri 2.1. Here’s what’s new: Faster Rendering, Scrolling and Navigation Qweri 2.1 brings noticeable performance improvements making document rendering, navigation and scrolling instantaneous. Qweri is the only publishing tool on the market allowing a sub-half-second interaction with multi-thousand pages long documents of any format, including... Read more
Lexum is Inviting Industry Partners to Join Lexum Lab in Pilot Implementations of Legal Data Enhancement Technologies
Lexum Lab – Lexum’s R&D unit – currently conducts several projects in the fields of text analysis, information retrieval, metadata extraction, document enhancement, and classification. We use machine learning and deep learning techniques on the millions of documents available on the Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) website. Our approach provides versatile solutions... Read more
The Federal Courts Reports Website Upgraded with Decisia
We are happy to announce that the Federal Courts Reports website recently adopted Decisia. The Federal Courts Reports (FCR) are published by the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada (FJA). Their website makes reported judgments, digests, and information on appeals from the Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court openly available […] Read more
Quebec’s Commission d’accès à l’information adopts Decisia to upgrade its Website
The Commission d’accès à l’information (CAI) of Quebec selected Decisia to enhance the publishing of decisions on its website. The Commission reviews decisions of public organizations in response to requests from individuals who have been denied access to an administrative document or to their personal information. Except in certain situations, these judgments are public information […] Read more
Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario Adopts Qweri
Lexum is thrilled to announce that the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) has chosen Qweri to enhance their online services. The ETFO has been advocating for teachers and education professionals since 1998 and is considered Canada’s largest education union. With over 81,000 members, the ETFO provides publications to its members through position papers and […] Read more
Decisia 5.0 – New Improvements in Publishing and Search Features
Lexum is pleased to announce its latest version of Decisia: Decisia 5.0. Here’s what’s new: Creation of a Bridge between Decisia and Qweri Qweri (https://lexum.com/en/products/qweri/) is Lexum’s document viewer. This software specializes in viewing and navigating large documents, such as the Court Reports. Decisia 5.0 makes it possible to configure a bridge between Decisia and […] Read more
Using Lexbox with CanLII and the SCC Judgments Website with any Browser
Lexbox is not only available via a Google Chrome extension. It is also directly available to users of CanLII and the SCC Judgments Website. Here’s a short help guide on using Lexbox with any browser: Signing on 1 – You can sign into Lexbox from (1) the SCC judgments website (https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/en/nav.do) or (2) CanLII (https://www.canlii.org/) using any […] Read more