Lancaster House recently announced a new online service providing guidance to collective agreement language for negotiators on both sides of the table. The Contract Clauses Service includes actual contract clauses from current collective agreements negotiated across Canada in both the public and private sectors and provides authoritative commentary. It provides access to 1,700 clauses on 65 topics from current collective agreements, as well as checklists, expert analysis, commentaries and reviews to assist practitioners in drafting their own clauses. Lexum is proud that Lancaster House... Read more
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Qweri new platform for AQTIS agreements
We are pleased to announce that the Alliance québécoise des techniciens de l'image et du son (AQTIS - Alliance of Image and Sound Technicians) has chosen Qweri as the online delivery platform for its collective agreements. You can access AQTIS agreements at: www.aqtis.qc.ca/en/relations/agreements/ Qweri will allow AQTIS members and representative to add notes and collaborate on agreements, in turn... Read more
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Lexbox Now Out of Beta Phase
We are excited to announce that Lexbox is now officially out of its open beta phase. Released July 2015, Lexbox has changed the way we research freely accessible online legal materials. Lexbox has continued to push forward its promise of convenience, and the statistics show. In just nine months, Lexbox has grown in the following […] Read more
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Decisia 4.0: New UI and so much more
We are proud to announce the release of our latest Decisia update, version 4.0. Decisia 4.0 improves upon user experience and efficiency. New features include: New modern user interface (UI) Guided by the prevalent ergonomic practices, the new design-inspired interface of Decisia 4.0 make the overall research and navigation functions more discoverable. Deep linking to numbered paragraphs With 4.0, users can deep link to numbered paragraphs by adding #parxx (ex: http://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/15859/index.do#par20 ) at the end of the decision URL. This feature will help... Read more
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Additional Content from Quebec on the CAIJ and CanLII Websites
Lexum is proud of its contribution to the processing and publishing of important databases in Quebec law that are now available on the websites of the CAIJ and CanLII. This collaboration between two important clients of Lexum dramatically increase online access to legal information in Quebec. The recently published databases on one or the other sites include: The annual Statutes of Québec since 1996 Federal Annual Statutes since 2001 A selection of decisions published between 1869 and 1969 in the Revue légale Decisions published between 1983 and 1996 in the Recueils de droit judiciaire (RDJ)... Read more
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CSN Adopts Decisia for its Internal Bank of Precedents
Lexum is proud to announce that the legal department of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) selected Decisia to manage its internal bank of judicial and quasi-judicial decisions. CSN lawyers have been accumulating court decisions and arbitration awards in labour law for many years, in order to provide a knowledge base to be used as precedents in current cases. The services to be provided... Read more
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Qweri 1.11 Now Available
Lexum is pleased to announce Qweri 1.11. Here's what's new: Redesigned Dashboard The Qweri Dashboard has been redesigned to provide a better user experience when browsing the entire knowledge base. Browsing and searching are now located on the left portion of the screen and occupy a larger area. A new sorting mechanism for multi-page lists of search results, as well as a new counter for hits per language... Read more
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Lexbox Featured on LawSites
Lexbox is featured on the well-known LawSites blog, written by Robert Ambrogi: Lexbox Organizes and Monitors Canadian Legal Research Mr. Ambrogi is an accomplished lawyer and consultant who has been writing and speaking about the Internet, social media and legal technology for nearly 20 years. LawSites has earned Mr. Ambrogi several awards, most recently winning the “Friend of the North Award” at the 2015 Clawbies - the Canadian Law Blog Awards. Mr. Ambrogi has significant influence on both sides of the border. This is an honour for the Lexbox team. Please check out the article, and follow... Read more
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Qweri to Improve Access to Legislative Information in the Caribbean
The Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean - IMPACT Justice Project – selected Qweri as the online delivery platform for the Consolidated Indexes of Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation from 16 Caribbean countries. The upcoming website will provide subscribing legal practitioners and libraries with instant access to exhaustive consolidated tables of legislative amendments, the vast majority of... Read more
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The Northwest Territories Courts Now Using Decisia
Lexum is excited to share that Northwest Territories (NWT) Courts are now using Decisia to run their decisions website. Decisia was selected to improve access to decisions from the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court, the Territorial Court, as well as the Youth Justice Court. Users can access all NWT Court decisions from the official web site of the courts . In upgrading from its former platform to Decisia, the new and improved NWT Courts decisions website feature s : Several new search fields under the advanced search option Previews in the search results list Highlighting of keywords in the... Read more