New Supreme Court Decisions Now Announced on Twitter
This is just a quick note to say that I’ve added announcements of recent Supreme Court decisions to the roster of Twitter feeds at CanCourts (cancourts.ca). As with announcements about court of appeal judgments from Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec, these are provided by the RSS feed from CanLII, and so they are a week or more behind the actual release date.
I should mention that this link between the RSS feeds and Twitter depends upon a free service provided by RSS2Twitter.com. They depend on donations, so if you use these feeds you might feel like supporting them.
The Twitter feed for the SCC releases is http://www.twitter.com/cancourtsscc.
A small precision on the publication time line on CanLII. Cases are usually published within 24 to 48 hours upon their reception.
However, SCC cases are entitled to a significantly faster processing – generally they are published on CanLII within 5 to 10 minutes from their publication on the SCC website, which means from 10 to 15 minutes after their official release.
We are working on shortening significantly the publication time for all other decisions as well. But this will be subject of a separate post when it is completed…
Btw, it is a great idea to push CanLII’s RSS feeds to Twitter. Thanks, Simon.
Thanks, Ivan, for the welcome correction — and for the great turn-around time for SCC decisions. Wonderful.