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
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Lexum Launches the First Free Version of the Annotated Income Tax Act of Canada
Lexum has been using Canada's Income Tax Act to demonstrate the ease of use of its Qweri technology for some time. This new release significantly increase the added value provided to users, creating the first and only free annotated version of the Act. Replicating the model adopted by Lexum for its successful Annotated Civil Code of Quebec, the new Annotated Income Tax Act includes: For each section... Read more
The Civil Code of Quebec (CCQ) now powered by Qweri
The Annotated Civil Code of Quebec “ACCQ” by Lexum is a free online version of the Civil Code of Quebec (C.C.Q.), divided by sections and including links pointing towards the Quebec jurisprudence. Articles of ACCQ can be accessed by browsing in its structure or by performing a full text search. Qweri is a turnkey solution by Lexum for the management and publication of online manuals. Here's some... Read more
Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Director of Business Development of Lexum, Speaking at NISO on the Semantic Web and Rights Management
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 Seychelles Judiciary Choose Qweri to Self-Publish its Statutes Book
Qweri was selected for the online management and publishing of the most commonly referred to version of the laws of the Seychelles – dubbed the Grey Book. The collection contains 80 consolidated statutes and will be made accessible on the SeyLII website. Qweri's capacity to generate both HTML 5 versions of the statutes for advanced research and ePub versions for installation on mobile devices was... Read more
Qweri 1.1 is out!
Qweri is a solution for e-books that automates the process of publishing documents available in Microsoft Word format. Qweri is ideal to provide access to monographs, annotated statutes, benchbooks, training manuals and other reference works. With the release of version 1.1, Qweri now meets all the needs of small and medium-sized legal publishers of secondary material. Read more
Saint-Rémi Launches a Portal Providing Access to Public Documents Based on OyezOyez
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
Decisia Now Powers the Disciplinary Actions Database of the Canadian Insurance Regulators
Lexum’s cloud based software Decisia is now powering the Canadian Insurance Regulators Disciplinary Actions’s (CIRDA) new database which has been designed to be a single point of access for decisions taken by Canadian insurance regulators. Read more
Daniel Poulin, president of Lexum, speaking in Sydney on "Free access to law" and "Open Data"
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
The Decisions of the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission are now published using Decisia
Since October 1st, the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission is using Lexum’s Decisia cloud based service to make its hearing decisions easier to search and access online. Read more