Federal Court of Appeal Twitter policy

The Twitter account  of the Federal Court of Appeal is maintained by the Courts Administration Service, which provides administrative services to the Federal Court of Appeal.

The Twitter account of the Federal Court of Appeal is not monitored.

Please do not use Twitter to request information from the Federal Court of Appeal or to communicate information pertaining to a legal proceeding before the Court. In order to ensure that your requests and communications are directed to the appropriate person, please contact the Registry . The Media are encouraged to send their questions to the Court’s media contact.

The Federal Court of Appeal uses its Twitter account to convey information about the Court and the business of the Court. It will occasionally use Twitter as an alternative method of sharing the content posted on the Court’s website, such as decisions, directions or notices. However, users should not rely on the Court’s Twitter feed for a complete and up-to-date list of decisions rendered by the Court. All recently released decisions of the Court can be found on the Court’s website.

Information posted by the administrators of the Federal Court of Appeal’s Twitter feed is subject to the Copyright Act .

All comments posted by users are in the public domain. Please do not include any personal or identifying information about yourself or a third party in comments posted.

The decision of the administrators of the Federal Court of Appeal’s Twitter account to “follow”, “retweet” or “like” another social media account does not imply an endorsement on the part of the Court or Courts Administration Service of that account, channel, page or site, and neither does sharing (retweeting, reposting or linking to) content from another user.

The Twitter account of the Federal Court of Appeal may post or display links to websites that are not under the control of the Court or Courts Administration Service. These links are provided solely for the convenience of users. The Court and Courts Administration Service are not responsible for the information found through these links nor do they endorse those websites or their content. Links that direct users to sites of organizations or other entities that are not subject to the Official Languages Act  may be shared even though available only in the language(s) in which they are written. When content is available in only one official language, every effort will be made to provide similar content in the other official language, where such content exists.

The Twitter account of the Federal Court of Appeal is not hosted on the servers of the Government of Canada nor that of the Courts Administration Service. Twitter users are subject to Twitter’s terms of service and privacy policy. Users who choose to interact with the Court via Twitter should carefully review those terms of service and that privacy policy as well as those of any applications used to access Twitter.

Please note that Twitter is a third-party service provider that is not bound by Government of Canada standards for Web accessibility. If you experience difficulty accessing content on the Court’s Twitter feeds, please contact the Registry  to request information in a different format.

Because Twitter is a third party service provider, the Twitter accounts of the Federal Court of Appeal may be subject to downtime or outages that are out of the Court and Courts Administration Service’s control. The Court and Courts Administration Service accept no responsibility for that platform becoming unavailable or unresponsive.

The Federal Court of Appeal asks that all comments posted be respectful and relevant. The administrator of the Court’s Twitter accounts reserves the right to mute or block users that violate these Terms of Use, including but not limited to those whose tweets:

• Contain personal information;

• Express racist, hateful, sexist, homophobic, slanderous, insulting or life-threatening messages;

• Could be in violation of Canadian law, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ;

• Puts forward serious, unproven or inaccurate accusations against individuals or organizations;

• Is aggressive, coarse, violent, obscene or pornographic;

• Is offensive, rude or abusive to an individual or an organization;

• Is not sent by the author or are put forward for advertising purposes;

• Encourages illegal activity;

• Contains announcements from labour or political organizations;

• Is written in a language other than English or French;

• Is unintelligible or irrelevant; or

• Is repetitive or spam.

The administrators of the Federal Court of Appeal’s Twitter account may also report a user to Twitter or to the proper authorities, where circumstances warrant.