Since 2011 Decisia is used by several administrative tribunals of the Canadian federal government as the platform of choice for the online publishing of their decisions. Among others, the Canada Agricultural Review Tribunal (CART), the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB), and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) all have official decision websites powered by Decisia. […] Read more
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The Commission de la Construction du Québec Modernizes its Internal Case Law Database with Decisia
Lexum is proud to announce the deployment of a large specialized case law database on behalf of the Commission de la Construction du Québec (CCQ). This database, specifically designed to serve the needs of the legal department of the CCQ, brings together thousands of Québec decisions from its fields of expertise, as well as various […] Read more
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Decisia 4.3 Brings User Groups Feature and Increased Security
Lexum recently rolled-out Decisia 4.3. Here are some of the new features included in this latest version: User Groups Feature Decisia already allowed its clients to provide its intranet users or subscribers with restricted access to confidential databases and documents. Decisia clients are using this feature to provide secure online access to additional information to […] Read more
Emma
Elliott
Are You Ready for the Digital Afterlife?
http://www.isaet.org/images/extraimages/EPH0717005%20formatted.pdf The purpose of the survey is to evaluate whether or not urban Canadians are ready for the digital afterlife. An online survey composed of twenty-one (21) questions was conducted to establish 1) digital assets awareness, 2) digital afterlife awareness and 3) digital afterlife preparedness. Results were obtained thanks to descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and […] Read more
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Improved Access to Canadian Legislation with Qweri!
Over the last decades Lexum consistently strived to make Canadian legislation easier to access over the Internet. Our objective is to continue providing free access to legislative material using our latest technologies as broadly as possible. In this line of thoughts three sets of Canadian legislation are permanently made available online using Qweri, our versatile […] Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
What Users Do with Lexbox
Last year Lexum decided to explore a new approach aiming to improve legal research on free websites and making it easier to track over time. It resulted in the launch of Lexbox, a free Google Chrome extension designed to become your legal research workspace. Lexbox allows you to store links to searches, cases, legislation or […] Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
State Administrative Decisions Census
This post includes preliminary results and findings from a survey of the status of online access to administrative decisions in the US. This survey was conducted over the course of September 2016 and is based on and replicates the methodology developed by Sarah Glassmeyer for the State Legal Information Census published in 2015. The main […] Read more
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Zita
Making the Move Online – BCCRT, Decisia and Access to Justice
As a Canadian tribunal is moving online for the very first time, the push towards increasing access to justice using technology is as loud as ever. In July 2016, the British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal (BCCRT) started hearing small claims cases online. In a system plagued by the constant backlog caused by an ever-growing caseload, […] Read more
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Using the Qweri User Interface
Documentation detailing how Qweri end users can navigate and leverage Qweri web-based interface. View this document with Qweri. Read more
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Using the Qweri Administrative Interface
Documentation detailing how Qweri administrators can configure and update their databases using Qweri web-based administrative interface. View this document with Qweri. Read more