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Decisia 3.14 released: HTML5 & WCAG Filters

Lexum is pleased to announce version 3.14 of Decisia . Here’s what’s new: HTML5 With 3.14, Decisia features HTML5 user interfaces. Clients with HTML5 websites will be able to have their Decisia installation migrated to HTML5 as well. With this development, Decisia remains on the forefront of web development both in terms of government requirements and best industry practices. SEARCHABLE “SUMMARY... Read more

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The British Columbia Utilities Commission Selects Decisia for its Online Search and Publishing

The British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) selected Decisia for the management and online dissemination of its orders and decisions. Decisia will enable BCUC to equip its website with full-text search capability into documents containing directives, approvals or denials of applications, as well as documents it issues following a public hearing process. Decisia will also facilitates the integration... Read more

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The Rwanda Law Reports Now Available Online with Decisia

The Judiciary of Rwanda recently started to post decisions included in the Rwanda Law Reports on their own website using Decisia. The published judgments are selected among decisions rendered by Rwanda Courts, including the Supreme Court, the High Court and lower instances. They are published in the country’s language, Kinyarwanda, and will be added in French and English in the near future. Lexum... Read more

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Legal aspects of accessibility and usability of online public services in Quebec and Canada

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10660-015-9186-3 This article discusses the legal requirements which must be taken into account in providing public online services to individuals with a low level of literacy. It will focus on two aspects: the accessibility and usability of these services. The authors propose a twofold theoretical analysis based on two issues raised by government objectives... Read more

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The Manitoba Securities Commission New Website Integrates Decisia

The Manitoba Securities Commission (MSC) brand new website integrates Decisia to provide improved access to all hearings and proceedings documents. Reasons for decisions, orders, notices, as well as instruments, rules and policies can now be browsed by date, case name and subject. Decisia also allows to search MSC documents full-text or according to specific criteria including the decision type, jurisdiction... Read more

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Thanks to CAIJ-CanLII Collaboration, almost 3000 Decisions from the Revue Légale now available online

The Centre d’accès à l’information juridique (CAIJ) has acquired 2 964 court decisions compiled in the Revue Légale by way of exclusive License from Wilson & Lafleur, including all decisions published from 1970 to 2012, along with a selection of important decisions published before 1970. These decisions were added to CAIJ’s jurisprudential corpus as well as to the Canadian Legal Information... Read more

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All Supreme Court of Canada Decisions Since 1876 Now Published Online

Lexum and the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) have been working together for the last 20 years to improve access to Canadian law. Various projects have been undertaken to complete the Supreme Court decisions database including all of the historical judgments. Multiple partners have participated in this goal including the Law Foundation of Ontario, the Law Foundation of British Columbia, the Alberta Law... Read more

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Lexum Helps the CAIJ to Double the Number of Titles Published

For many years Lexum has been supporting the Centre d'accès à l'information juridique (CAIJ) with digital publishing services for the online dissemination of its doctrine. In March 54 additional titles from Éditions Wilson & Lafleur published between 1999 and 2013 will be added to the JuriBistro eDOCTRINE collection made available on the CAIJ website. This will bring to over 100 the total number... Read more

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Colin Lachance to step down as President and CEO of CanLII

CanLII's Board of directors announced yesterday, February 9th, that Colin Lachance is to step down from his position of President and CEO of CanLII . On this occasion, Lexum wishes to acknowledge Colin's important contribution to the development of Free Access to Law in Canada. Colin Lachance has held the title of President and CEO of CanLII for four years. Under his leadership, CanLII became stronger... Read more

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The Decisions of the Chief Military Judge are Now Made Available with Decisia

In order to promote access to courts martial results and decisions, the Department of National Defence integrated Decisia to the Chief Military Judges (CMJ) website. The new decision website not only provides information about rendered decisions, but also includes details about ongoing courts martial. A summary is provided for each court martial, including information about dates, location, charges... Read more