Websites providing free access to legal information have come to play a major role in the day-to-day work of legal practitioners. For a majority of Canadian lawyers legal, research now starts with free access websites and is completed by the use of commercial databases only when required. No wonder that the CanLII website serves between 200,000 […] Read more
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Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Lexum
Lexum Helps the CAIJ to Double the Number of Titles Published
For many years Lexum has been supporting the Centre d'accès à l'information juridique (CAIJ) with digital publishing services for the online dissemination of its doctrine. In March 54 additional titles from Éditions Wilson & Lafleur published between 1999 and 2013 will be added to the JuriBistro eDOCTRINE collection made available on the CAIJ website. This will bring to over 100 the total number... Read more
Lexum
Colin Lachance to step down as President and CEO of CanLII
CanLII's Board of directors announced yesterday, February 9th, that Colin Lachance is to step down from his position of President and CEO of CanLII . On this occasion, Lexum wishes to acknowledge Colin's important contribution to the development of Free Access to Law in Canada. Colin Lachance has held the title of President and CEO of CanLII for four years. Under his leadership, CanLII became stronger... Read more
Daniel
Poulin
Internal Management of Precedents and Case Law
Many organizations have gathered significant collections of arbitration awards, tribunal decisions, court decisions and various other precedents pertaining to their field of activity. It could be law firms or various quasi-legal structures, trade associations, trade unions or advocacy groups. Read more
Lexum
The Decisions of the Chief Military Judge are Now Made Available with Decisia
In order to promote access to courts martial results and decisions, the Department of National Defence integrated Decisia to the Chief Military Judges (CMJ) website. The new decision website not only provides information about rendered decisions, but also includes details about ongoing courts martial. A summary is provided for each court martial, including information about dates, location, charges... Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Supporting Accessibility with WCAG 2.0 Level AA Compatibility
This fifth blog post in a series of five is the sequel to “Creating mobile friendly website”. Facilitating the publishing process is not the only benefit resulting from an optimal usage of Microsoft Word. Surprisingly enough, it can also contribute to generating more accessible files, in other words, files readable online by persons with disabilities. […] Read more
Lexum
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Opts for Decisia
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) will adopt Decisia for the management and dissemination of its decisions. The IPC offers assistance in promoting open government and protecting personal privacy. Using Decisia will ensure they continue leading the way in accessibility thanks, in part, to the compatibility with the latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG... Read more
Lexum
Decisia now Fully Multilingual
Decisia now offers fully multilingual public and management interfaces which can be made available in any language. Individual Decisia clients can integrate multiple language versions to fulfil the requirements of any organization or government. Decisia is an online tool for decision-making bodies wishing to self-publish their decisions from their own website, intranet and extranet. The example below... Read more
Pierre-Paul
Lemyre
Creating Mobile-Friendly Websites
This fourth blog post in a series of five is the sequel to “Extracting Metadata From the Body of Documents”. Another unexpected advantage of structured data is the flexibility it provides in relation with online display. The popularity of the mobile web has contributed to multiplying the number of devices of various screen sizes accessing […] Read more
Lexum
Decisia Continues to Increase its Market Shares in Q4 2014
During the last quarter of 2014, four organizations selected Decisia to improve the management and dissemination of their judicial/administrative decisions - the Office of the Chief Military Judge, the Judiciary of Rwanda, the Courts of the Northwest Territories and an agency from the financial sector. With 2014 coming to an end, Decisia has been deployed and is used by 19 organizations to manage and... Read more