By LexUM

• Access to Law in Canada
• Other Canadian Projects
• International Projects

Access to Law in Canada

• Supreme Court of Canada Decisions

  The Supreme Court of Canada Decisions website provides free access to Court decisions since 1948.

• CanLII

  CanLII is the largest and most consulted online resource for Canadian law.

• Federal Court of Appeal Decisions

  The Federal Court of Appeal Decisions website provides free access to Court decisions since 1998.

• Federal Court of Canada Decisions

  The Federal Court of Canada Decisions website provides free access to Court decisions since 1998.

• Federal Court Reports Decisions

  The Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs website provides free access to the electronic version of the Federal Court Reports.

• Tax Court of Canada Decisions

  The Tax Court of Canada Decisions website provides free access to Court decisions since 1996.

• Nova Scotia Courts Decisions

  The Nova Scotia Courts Decisions website provides free access to Court of Appeal decisions since 1996 and decisions from other provincial courts.

• Nova Scotia Annotated Civil Procedure Rules

  LexUM provides the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society with publishing capacities for the annotated version of the Nova Scotia Civil Procedure Rules.

• Annotated Civil Code of Quebec

  The Annotated Civil Code of Quebec gives access to the Civil code of Québec and proposes a collaborative environment allowing all users to add value by annotating its sections.

• Publications from the Quebec Bar Association (French)

  LexUM provides the CAIJ with publishing capacities for the "Collection de droit" volumes, the "Developpements récents" series and the papers from the Annual Congres of the Quebec Bar Association.

• Canlex

  CanLex is a website hosting a variety of Open API's which aim to provide the Canadian legal community with advanced tools to take advantage of the legal information that is freely accessible online. CanLex is a LexUM / CanLII joint venture.

Other Canadian Projects

• NOME, the Anonymisation Assistant

  NOME is an anonymization software application. Using a Microsoft Word macro, NOME allows for a quicker, automated replacement by initials, or other characters, of identity-protected names mentioned in a document.

• Legal Framework for Information Technology (French)

  Web resource that aims to provide a clear, simple and rigorous explanations about the Legal Framework for Information Technology Act.

• Canadian Citation Committee

  The Canadian Citation Committee is a group that supports the standardization efforts of the Judges Technology Advisory Commitee of the Canadian Judicial Coucil.

• Canadian Guide to the Uniform Preparation of Judgments

  The Canadian Guide to the Uniform Preparation of Judgments was approved in 2002 by the Canadian Citation Committee and has since been adopted by many Canadian courts. The Guide provides best practice guidelines for the e-preparation and e-distribution of judgments.

• Uniform Case Naming Guidelines

  This Guide are intended to be used by court personnel to prepare the case name that is assigned to a decision along with its neutral citation.

• E-discovery Canada

  Portal that provides documents and resources pertaining to e-discovery in Canada, including case law digests.

• The Neutral Citation Standard for Case Law

  The Canadian Guide to the Uniform Preparation of Judgments was approved in 2002 by the Canadian Citation Committee and has since been adopted by most Canadian courts.

International Projects

• Global Study on Free Access to Law

  LexUM is currently coordinating an international research project aiming at better understanding the Free Access to Law movement by analysing case studies from different african and asiatic countries.

• Evaluating the effect of free access to law

  LexUM is currently coordinating an evaluation project which aims at assessing the effect of free access to law initiatives in western Africa on lawyers' competence in terms of their ability to conduct legal research.

• Defensoria Penal Publica of Chile Electronic Library

  LexUM provided the organization in charge of the legal assistance in penal matter in Chile with a document management system taking charge of the jurisprudence and the legal scholarship papers linked to the Penal Code of that country. This tool primarily serves the legal research needs of the defense prosecutors.

• Universal Human Rights Index

  The Universal Human Rights Index provides access to observations, recommendations and annotations of United Nations documents pertaining to Human Rights.

• Juris international

  The Juris International website is a legal information resource pertaining to International Trade.

• Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters and Extradition

  Website that provides a description of the legal system of american countries. Bilateral and multilateral treaties related to mutual assistance in criminal matters and extradition are also included.

• JuriBurkina (French)

  The JuriBurkina Decisions website provides free access to decisions from Burkina Faso courts, including those from the Cour de Cassation, the Conseil d'État and the Conseil Constitutionnel.

• Réseau d'information juridique africain (French)

  RIJA is a network of African Legal Information Institutes. Its purpose is to create links between members to promote free access to law initiatives in these countries.

• JuriNiger (French)

  The JuriNiger Decisions website provides free access to decisions from Niger courts, including those from the Cour Suprême, the Cour d'Appel de Niamey and the Cour d'Appel de Zinder.

• Canado-american Treaties

  Website that provides access to the text of all bilateral treaties established between the United States of America and Canada from 1783 to 1997.

• Judicial Education Portal

  The Judicial Education Portal identifies, ranks and describes Web resources relevant to judicial training and was financed by the World Bank's Legal and Judicial Reform Practice Group.

• Algerian Justice System Modernization Project

  In 2003, LexUM submitted a report entitled Information Management in Algeria's Department of Justice to the United Nations' Development Program in Algeria. The report evaluated institutional and human resource needs for the legal and judicial information management at the Algerian Department of Justice.

• Tunisian Judicial System Modernization Support Project

  In 2005, LexUM submitted a report entitled Strategic Elements in the Development of Information Systems in the Legal Domain to the Tunisian Department of Justice and Human Rights and the United Nations' Development Program in Tunisia.

• Feasibility Study for a Telecommunications Dispute Resolution Database

  In 2005, LexUM conducted a study for the International Telecommunications Union and the World Bank to evalute the viablity of a multilingual telecommunications regulators' decisions database.

• ICT Regulatory Decisions Clearinghouse

  The ICT Regulatory Decisions Clearinghouse provides access to decisions originating from ICT decision making bodies such as telecommunications regulators, industry ombudsmen and specialized dispute resolution tribunals.