CanLII Partners With Lancaster House to Publish Open Access Text
The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) and Lancaster House announced this afternoon that they are cooperating in a project to provide open access legal commentary. The digitized text of Wrongful Dismissal and Employment Law (1st Ed.) by Peter Neumann and Jeffrey Sack “will be fully integrated and freely available to the public on the CanLII website” as of tomorrow, May 4, according to the joint press release. The press release also states that CanLII President, Colin Lachance, sees this a first step in improving access to law through the free provision of explanatory materials.
The Wrongful Dismissal e-text will be updated in July and subsequently two to four times each year.
The text of the press release is available here.
This is excellent news; thanks for sharing it here, Simon.
Congratulations to CanLII and Lancaster House for this initiative. It’s great to see movement toward improved access to justice by more readily available, good quality open access material. I am pleased to read Colin refer to this as “a first step!”
– Kim
This is really quite wonderful, congratulation all!
–dave