Category: Lexum

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

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

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

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

On February 19, 2014, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is hosting a virtual Conference on “ The Semantic Web Coming of Age: Technologies and Implementations ”. Pierre-Paul Lemyre, one of the founders of Lexum and Director of Business Development will be delivering a presentation titled “Sharing Information on the Semantic Web: The Need for a Global License Repository”. This presentation underlines the importance of adequate rights management mechanisms in the success of recent online trends that have initiated the distributed production of information (namely open source... Read more

The City of Saint-Rémi just made available on its website a wide range of public documents using OyezOyez by Lexum. The citizens of Saint-Rémi can now easily navigate and search municipal by-laws, minutes of council and committees meetings, various communications (Echo Saint-Rémi and the municipal bulletins), and various other publications. OyezOyez also allows anyone to sign up to receive email... Read more

AustLII's fifth lunchtime Research Seminar for 2013 on November 19th, will be presented by Professor Daniel Poulin from Lexum, one of the international pioneers and founders of free access to legal information, on the topic of "Free access to law" and "Open Data" - Similarities and Differences. Read more

It is with great pride that Lexum celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Lexum began operations in 1993 as a collaboration between the Centre de recherche en droit public, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal and the Supreme Court of Canada for the publication of the court’s decisions on the Internet. Read more