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Acknowledgment
Through an initiative of the LexUM laboratory in University of Montréal's
Faculty of Law, decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada have been available
on the Internet since 1994.
LexUM has played a pioneering role in electronic legal materials in this regard.
LexUM receives decisions rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada as soon as
they are released and posts them on its server.
These decisions may thus be accessed that same day under "Recent
Judgments".
LexUM also receives electronic versions of Press Releases, of judgments reported
in the Supreme Court Reports (S.C.R.) and of the Bulletin of Proceedings
and posts them on its site.
In the Virtual Law Library of Canada and Quebec Law it has created, LexUM
provides access to numerous other sources of Canadian and international law.
Editorial Enhancements made by LexUM
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before publication.
The Charter collection (1983-1995) has been assembled from magnetic
tapes and partially reconstructed before publication on the Internet.
As a
result, it
is possible that errors were introduced in the text during processing.
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