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
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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
Frédéric
Pelletier, Ruth Rintoul, Daniel Poulin
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
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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
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Fifteen Years of Free Access to Law
28.04.2008 Tags: Daniel Poulin, Free Access to Law Fifteen Years of Free Access to Law Daniel Poulin, LexUM, University of Montreal Abstract. Free access to law on the web began with the seminal initiative of two law professors at Cornell University in 1992. Rapidly, others researchers and professors adopted the idea, and created their own […] Read more
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Free Access to Law and Open Source Software
28.04.2007 Tags: Daniel Poulin, Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Free Access to Law, Open source Free Software Free Access to Law and Open Source SoftwareDaniel Poulin, Andrew Mowbray and Pierre-Paul Lemyre Abstract. Accessing basic legal information is of fundamental importance, however before the Internet, the provision of legal databases was entirely commercial and accessing it was costly. The Legal... Read more
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Pelletier
Model Policy for Access to Court Records in Canada
In May 2003, the Canadian Judicial Council released a discussion paper prepared by the Judges Technology Advisory Committee (JTAC) entitled “Open Courts, Electronic Access to Court Records, and Privacy,” which built upon an earlier report for the Administration of Justice Committee of the Council. Read more
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The Legal Issues Surrounding Free and Open Source Software: Challenges and Solutions for the Government of Québec
02.05.2005 Tags: Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Open source Free Software Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Richard Willemant, “The Legal Issues Surrounding Free and Open Source Software: Challenges and Solutions for the Government of Québec”, for the Conseil du Trésor du Québec (2005), translated from original in French. The Government of Québec is slowly but surely turning its attention to the [&hellip... Read more
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Reflex – Bridging Open Access with a Legacy Legal Information System
04.04.2005 Tags: Daniel Poulin, Ivan Mokanov, Free Access to Law Law via the Internet 2005 – Port Vila, November 17–19, 2005 Daniel POULIN, Éric PARÉ and Ivan MOKANOVLexUM/CanLII, Faculty of Law, University of Montréal IntroductionAccording to Black’s Law Dictionary, a citator is “a book or section of a book containing tables of cases or statutes […] Read more
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Pelletier
Use of Personal Information in Judgments and Recommended Protocol
The JTAC Open Courts and E-Access to Court Records and Privacy Subcommittee was asked in February, 2004 to consider developing and implementing a standardized national protocol to de-identify family judgments which would allow all of them to be posted on court websites. Read more