E-Filing Case Study Report

The E-Filing IWG has been working on a Case Studies Report in an effort to present information on e-filing initiatives in Canada.

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Please note that we will try to update this report as much as possible, so to present the latest information available from each jurisdictions. If you feel like you can help us in this task, don’t hesitate to contact us.

In a previous post, we have invited you to type “jury duty” in Twitter to produce interesting results.

On the present topic, an American survey was published by the Federal Judicial Center: Jurors’ Use of Social Media During Trials and Deliberations. A post by the United States Courts outlines a few interesting results.

Launch of Justipedia

The Deputy Minister of Justice is pleased to announce that the Department’s new national legal knowledge management portal, Justipedia, will be available to all Justice employees on February 1st. Read more…

From the Legal Research Plus post

The white paper also frames the legal landscape and background of authentication for primary legal materials in electronic format, and provides context and points to applicable resources. Read more…

If you are interested in policies and guidelines available on the topic at hand, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has published guidelines on text-based communication from Court: Practice Guidance: The Use of Live Text-Based Forms of Communication (including Twitter) from Court for the Purposes of Fair and Accurate Reporting Read more…

Éducaloi (Quebec organization involved in providing plain language legal information) writes about their experience with social media and how the different channels serve different clients. Their experience is useful to courts as they consider social media initiatives. The summary is also available in French.

LII Research

Two articles from the VoxPopuLII blog give background information to the LII movement and look at research being conducted into sustainability. Read more…

2011 Blog Hits Lists

I always start the year reviewing the awards to see what blogs I should follow. Then during the year my list gets weeded so that I can focus on those that regularly provide information to feed my interests. Read more…