Lexum is proud to announce the conclusion of an greement with The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (CLEBC) for the modernization of their online practice manuals. Read more
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Pacific Legal Technology Conference
Lexum will be present at the Pacific Legal Technology Conference to be held in Vancouver on October 2, 2009. You are very welcome to visit us at our stand. Read more
Position available
Lexum is currently looking to hire a software developper. Read more
SCC Website – What’s Next?
24.08.2009 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Electronic Access to Law in Canada A couple of days ago I was at the Supreme Court to discuss potential improvements to the Supreme Court decision website. Some of you probably noticed that over the last year LexUM greatly expanded the scope of decisions available on this site. Read more
Law via the Internet conference
SAFLII is pleased to announce that the 10th International "Law via the Internet" Conference will be held at the International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa, 26 - 27 November 2009. The call for papers is now open with a title and abstract due in June 2009. Read more
The Evolving Ecology of the Legal Information Market
02.05.2009 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Free Access to Law Pierre-Paul Lemyre, “The Evolving Ecology of the Legal Information Market”, in Ginevra Peruginelli and Mario Ragona, Law via the Internet: Free Access, Quality of Information, Effectiveness of Rights,European Press Academic Publishing, Florence, 2009. Read more
The Preparation, Citation and Distribution of Canadian Decisions
Canadian Citation Committee Final version: 2009-04-02 The origins of the present guidelines date back to 1996, when the Judges Technology Advisory Committee (JTAC) of the Canadian Judicial Council adopted the Standards for the Preparation, Distribution and Citation of Canadian Judgments in Electronic Form. This document opened the way to a standardization that is crucial in […] Read more
Law, Culture and Beaches
18.03.2009 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Free Access to Law Last year, I had the incredible opportunity of spending five weeks in Port Vila, Vanuatu, working on a research project to evaluate the impact of free access to law in the Pacific Islands. Read more
Case Naming Guidelines
In these Guidelines, the case name is the abbreviated title of a decision. These guidelines allow you to create a case name that is both concise and meaningful, based on the names of the main parties involved in the case. View this document with Qweri. Read more
Sharing Information on the Semantic Web: The Reminiscence of an Old Legal Issue
01.07.2008 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Open source Free Software, Others “Letting your data connect to other people’s data is […] not about giving to people data which they don’t have a right to. It is about letting it be connected to data from peer sites. It is about letting it be joined to data from other […] Read more