As a signatory of the Montreal Declaration on Free Access to Law and a member of the Free Access to Law Movement, Lexum has built strong connections with other Legal Information Institutes worldwide. One of these partners is AfricanLII, and the scope of their work is reason enough to take a few moments to delve into. AfricanLII convenes a […] Read more
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Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
How to Semi-Automate Typesetting to Save Time and Money
Typesetting is the operation consisting in setting the text onto a page so that it looks good. It originates from the printing world in which typographers initially had to arrange physical types (letters and symbols) to imprint them on paper. Obviously, this work is now completed digitally with the help of dedicated software such as […] Read more
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The First Nations Gazette Now Powered by Decisia and Qweri
The First Nations Gazette (FNG) recently released a modernized website leveraging Lexum’s solutions for providing online access to its various components. The FNG database is composed of the following data: Part I: First Nation public notices and notices relating to Aboriginal matters by other governments and organizations made available via Decisia. Part II: Enacted First […] Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Automating the Entire Publishing Chain for Your Court or Agency Decisions
If your organization produces precedential judicial or administrative decisions, you are very aware that the work on a case doesn’t stop when the final decision is delivered to the parties. Once the docket has been updated via your Court/Case Management System (CMS), the decision rendered must still be published. This process often involves a webmaster, […] Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Improving Publishing without Disrupting how you Operate
Ten years ago, organizations looking to improve online access to their legal material were faced with the requirement to either adopt a generic product designed for non-legal documents, or to invest heavily in a bespoke solution. Many such legacy solutions are still in place today, although they have become somewhat outdated. Legal research is more […] Read more
Tenille
Brown
Lexum’s New Approach to PDF Publishing
Lexum is rolling out a new approach to PDF publishing for use across its products. We are introducing a new PDF publishing format that meets sophisticated digital publishing requirements (understand “feature rich”) but at an accessible low price point. Currently there are two options commonly used for publishing documents on the web. First, there is […] 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
Frédéric
Pelletier
Posting Judgments that can be Listened to – Lexum’s Approach to WCAG Compliance
Web accessibility is about the capacity of Web content to be used by people with disabilities. It aims at lifting barriers that prevent disabled people from navigating the Web, understanding its content and contributing to it.For the visually impaired, this means that the semantics conveyed by the visual presentation of a document Read more
Frédéric
Pelletier
Making old cases new: the digitization of case law
Information that is born digital today tends to be accessible online and thus better preserved than 20 years ago, before the Web made it much easier. Prior to the Web’s revolution in information technology, content that was prepared electronically with word-processors was mostly preserved on paper and not digitally, the native files being overwritten with newer content in order to save memory space... 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