24.08.2009 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Electronic Access to Law in Canada A couple of days ago I was at the Supreme Court to discuss potential improvements to the Supreme Court decision website. Some of you probably noticed that over the last year LexUM greatly expanded the scope of decisions available on this site. Read more
Category: Lexum
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Lexum
Law via the Internet conference
SAFLII is pleased to announce that the 10th International "Law via the Internet" Conference will be held at the International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa, 26 - 27 November 2009. The call for papers is now open with a title and abstract due in June 2009. Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
The Evolving Ecology of the Legal Information Market
02.05.2009 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Free Access to Law Pierre-Paul Lemyre, “The Evolving Ecology of the Legal Information Market”, in Ginevra Peruginelli and Mario Ragona, Law via the Internet: Free Access, Quality of Information, Effectiveness of Rights,European Press Academic Publishing, Florence, 2009. Read more
Frédéric
Pelletier, Ruth Rintoul, Daniel Poulin
The Preparation, Citation and Distribution of Canadian Decisions
Canadian Citation Committee Final version: 2009-04-02 The origins of the present guidelines date back to 1996, when the Judges Technology Advisory Committee (JTAC) of the Canadian Judicial Council adopted the Standards for the Preparation, Distribution and Citation of Canadian Judgments in Electronic Form. This document opened the way to a standardization that is crucial in […] Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Law, Culture and Beaches
18.03.2009 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Free Access to Law Last year, I had the incredible opportunity of spending five weeks in Port Vila, Vanuatu, working on a research project to evaluate the impact of free access to law in the Pacific Islands. Read more
Frédéric
Pelletier, Ruth Rintoul, Daniel Poulin
Case Naming Guidelines
In these Guidelines, the case name is the abbreviated title of a decision. These guidelines allow you to create a case name that is both concise and meaningful, based on the names of the main parties involved in the case. View this document with Qweri. Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Sharing Information on the Semantic Web: The Reminiscence of an Old Legal Issue
01.07.2008 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Open source Free Software, Others “Letting your data connect to other people’s data is […] not about giving to people data which they don’t have a right to. It is about letting it be connected to data from peer sites. It is about letting it be joined to data from other […] Read more
Daniel
Poulin
Fifteen Years of Free Access to Law
28.04.2008 Tags: Daniel Poulin, Free Access to Law Fifteen Years of Free Access to Law Daniel Poulin, LexUM, University of Montreal Abstract. Free access to law on the web began with the seminal initiative of two law professors at Cornell University in 1992. Rapidly, others researchers and professors adopted the idea, and created their own […] Read more
Daniel
Poulin
Free Access to Law and Open Source Software
28.04.2007 Tags: Daniel Poulin, Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Free Access to Law, Open source Free Software Free Access to Law and Open Source SoftwareDaniel Poulin, Andrew Mowbray and Pierre-Paul Lemyre Abstract. Accessing basic legal information is of fundamental importance, however before the Internet, the provision of legal databases was entirely commercial and accessing it was costly. The Legal... Read more
Frédéric
Pelletier
Model Policy for Access to Court Records in Canada
In May 2003, the Canadian Judicial Council released a discussion paper prepared by the Judges Technology Advisory Committee (JTAC) entitled “Open Courts, Electronic Access to Court Records, and Privacy,” which built upon an earlier report for the Administration of Justice Committee of the Council. Read more