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.
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.
The International Bar Association (IBA) has published a report, The Impact of Online Social Networking on the Legal Profession and Practice, the gives insight into the potential impact of online social networking on the legal profession and practice..
The objectives of the survey are:
• to consider the impact of online social networking on the legal profession and practice;
• to analyse whether there is a need for bar associations, societies and councils to come together to address this global issue and develop guidelines regarding the use of online social networking within the legal profession and practice; and
• to ascertain whether there is a need for the IBA to work with member bar associations, societies, councils and law schools to devise guidelines and toolkits regarding the use of online social networking within the legal profession and practice.
Survey questions were included that gauged how the bar felt about judges use of social media generally, during trial and juror use.
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.
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.
Two articles from the VoxPopuLII blog give background information to the LII movement and look at research being conducted into sustainability. Read more…
