This content is not available in the selected language. Three University of Ottawa law professors have uploaded an article entitled Mobile and Web-Based Legal Apps: Opportunities, Risks and Information Gaps to the SSRN website: “Mobile and web-based apps are one technology with the potential to improve access to justice, either by helping lawyers increase the […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. As most lawyers would agree, few recent court cases have had the impact of last year’s Supreme Court decision in R. v. Jordan. A quick look at the CanLII website tells us that it has already been cited in over 200 other decisions in the 8 […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. Predicting the outcome of Supreme Court decisions has long been a favorite parlor game for political scientists, attorneys, and legal-system junkies. People have built statistical models, predictive algorithms, and flow charts, and have used machine learning to try to guess what the justices will decide. Some […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. The increase in the number of self-represented litigants demonstratesd the need for a “wide ranging” examination on the barriers to accessible justice, the New Zealand Law Society president Chris Moore has said. Reports about increasing court costs and other barriers to justice are leading to a […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. Blog sur l’informatique libre au Québec tenu par Cyrille Beraud Il n’est pas possible de nous soustraire à l’ordre « corrompu » de l’État : y introduire une torsion supplémentaire, y inscrire notre fidélité à un Événement, voilà ce qui nous reste. Nous demeurons alors dans les frontières […] Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. Par Antoine Guilmain (Ph.D. Candidate in Law (LL.D.) Université de Montréal and Université Paris 1) « Ne pas planifier, c’est programmer l’échec. » (Auteur inconnu, mais plein de bon sens !) Depuis plusieurs années, l’entente sur le déroulement de l’instance est devenue la pierre de touche de […] Read more
Blog post from FUTURES initiative of the Canadian Bar Association Read more
This content is not available in the selected language. Par Antoine Guilmain (Ph.D. Candidate in Law (LL.D.) Université de Montréal and Université Paris 1) « Audi alteram partem »… Encore une veritas qui est utilisée ad nauseam pour justifier la moindre ratio legis, me direz-vous ! Et bien, pas cette fois. Cet adage entretient un lien de filiation […] Read more
By Riikka Koulu In the previous post I shed light on the background of UNCITRAL’s work in drafting unified procedural rules for resolving e-commerce disputes through online dispute resolution. In this post I will discuss the meeting on February 2015. UNCITRAL’s work concerning ODR rules has proven to be much harder a task than expected, […] Read more
BY Riikka Koulu Disputes arising from e-commerce are an urgent issue – and drafting unified rules to resolve them is a task very well suited for the United Nations’ Commission for International trade law (UNCITRAL). UNCITRAL’s working group III has focused on ODR since 2010 and is now in its 10th meeting on the topic […] Read more
