Join Lexum at LEGCOMM, the first annual Legislative Communication Conference in Montreal from June 10 to 12, 2014. Ivan Mokanov, Executive Director at Lexum and Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Director of Business Development will both take part in round tables to discuss transparency and open data. Read more
Author: Lexum
Access All of Lexum's Publications
With the addition of a new Publications section to its website, Lexum now provides you with a centralized access to all the papers written by its team. The collection includes more than 50 publications written between 1992 and 2014 on the themes of free access to law, electronic access to Canadian law, privacy and data protection, court technologies, and open source software. Read more
The Canadian Energy Tracker Portal has been launched using Decisia
The new portal for the Canadian Gas Association (CGA) is now live and offers a central point of access to gas related decisions issued by Canadian energy regulators. Read more
Daniel Poulin has been appointed as Professor Emeritus at the Université de Montréal
During its meeting on April 28 2014, the Council of the Université de Montréal has approved the appointment of Daniel Poulin, President and founder of Lexum, as Professor Emeritus of the University. The Université de Montréal wishes to acknowledge the outstanding contribution of Daniel Poulin in the research, education, development and outreach of the University. Read more
The full version of the Canada Supreme Court Reports are now available online
Starting in 2013 and onwards, the full version of the Canada Supreme Court Reports will now be available online. You can view and download the documents in PDF format from the reports page here . Lexum's Decisia software powers the collection of the Supreme Court of Canada. The collection is updated within minutes of the public release of the judgments by the Court. Access the full reports in the resource... Read more
Qweri now powering Seychelles’s statutes book “eGrey Book”
The Seychelles Judiciary ( SeyLII ) has published online the most frequently cited acts in Seychelles using Qweri . The eGrey Book contains 80 Acts which can be browsed and searched online, printed, or downloaded as individual ePub or PDF files thanks to the power of Qweri. The eGrey Book has been developed by SeyLII in partnership with AfricanLII, a project of the Democratic Governance and Rights Unit, Department of Public Law, University of Cape Town. Qweri is Lexum's e-book solution. Qweri fully automates the process of publishing online books, manuals, statutes and other large or... Read more
Lexum is pleased to announce Decisia has been upgraded to version 3.10
Decisia is an online tool for decision-making bodies wishing to self-publish their decisions from their own website, intranet and extranet and it's just been upgraded to version 3.10. Read about the changes. Read more
The Alberta Environmental Appeals Board chooses Decisia
The Alberta Environmental Appeals Board (AEAB) will use Decisia from Lexum for the management and dissemination of its decisions, as well as those of the Public Lands Appeals Board established under Alberta's Public Lands Act, and a forestry appeal body to be established under Alberta's forestry legislation. Thanks to its auto-fill feature that recognizes metadata directly in the body of decisions, Decisia will allow AEAB staff to efficiently publish its decisions online and make them easy to search in full text and with adapted fields. The AEAB advances the protection, enhancement and wise... Read more
Lexum is the Proud Sponsor of the 2014 Professional Development Forum of the Foundation of Administrative Justice (FOAJ)
Since 2005 the Foundation of Administrate Justice’s Forum (formerly conference) brings together the various actors of the administrative justice sector for professional development and debate. This year's event is presented by Lexum and will take place in Edmonton, Alberta, on April 8-9. The program focus on unique aspects of evidence before, during and after the hearing. The sessions will cover emotional evidence, privacy issues in disclosure, assessing credibility in investigations and hearings, evidence to establish charter and societal values when interpreting legislation, and writing... Read more
Lexum Launches the First Free Version of the Annotated Income Tax Act of Canada
Lexum has been using Canada's Income Tax Act to demonstrate the ease of use of its Qweri technology for some time. This new release significantly increase the added value provided to users, creating the first and only free annotated version of the Act. Replicating the model adopted by Lexum for its successful Annotated Civil Code of Quebec, the new Annotated Income Tax Act includes: For each section... Read more