Category: Lexum

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

The 2013 edition of the Law via the Internet Conference will be held in Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands on 26 and 27 September. The conference theme this year is "Free Access to Law in a Changing World." Read more

Lexum was selected by the Judiciary of Rwanda for designing the Rwanda Law Reports (RLR) composed of judicial opinions from case law decided mostly by the Rwanda higher courts. Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Director of Business Development of Lexum is currently in Kigali to lead the design and development of the RLR, drafting the editorial policies and training of judicial officers. Ultimately the project should... Read more

Congratulations to Ms. Edith Girard from Thetford Mines, QC who was drawn at random to be the lucky winner of the iPad. Congratulations for being the 2013 winner of our OyezOyez "Win an iPad" summer contest. We wish to thank everyone who signed up and tried the new and improved OyezOyez. Read more

On September 13 th and 14 th CanLII organizes a hackathon and a conference on the theme of law, government and open data at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law Centre for Law, Technology and Society (CLTS). Ivan Mokanov, executive director of Lexum, is a guest speaker and will discuss the importance of opening legal and judicial data directly from the source. The event will also provide an opportunity... Read more