DIAL News ========= 9 February 2001 2001/2 In this issue: * NEW LEGISLATION * OTHER NEW AND UPDATED MATERIALS * FEATURED WEBSITE * RESEARCH TIPS * DIAL TRAINING ********************************************************************** NEW LEGISLATION "Income Tax Law of the People's Republic of China for Enterprises with Foreign Investment and Foreign Enterprises" See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/51106.html "Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China" See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/220.html "Arab Countries Laws" See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2646.html "Public Procurement Act" (Estonia) See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2186.html ********************************************************************** OTHER NEW AND UPDATED MATERIALS INDONESIA The Indonesia pages on World Law/Project DIAL have been expanded. Legal information is indexed under 14 source of material (Law Reform, Government, Legislation, Treaties and International Agreements etc) and under 19 subject headings. In particular, many new sites featuring legislation and regulations have been added to Environment, Foreign Investment, Intellectual Property, Capital Markets and Banking and Finance. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/223.html CANADA>>LEGISLATION The Canadian legislation page features extensive coverage of acts and regulations covering both federal and provincial laws and individual areas of the law such as the Criminal Code, the Indian Act (Indigenous peoples' rights), natural and cultural heritage statutes and the complete election laws of the federal government and all the provinces. Many sites provide access in both French and English. The Canada Gazette provides information on proposed legislation as well as recent legislative amendments and enactments. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2039.html FOREIGN INVESTMENT LAW The Foreign Investment pages contain links to databases from major organisations such as the World Bank and the OECD, treaties and other multilateral agreement information and country information including text from relevant acts for over 60 countries. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/50056.html ********************************************************************* FEATURED WEBSITE "Estonian Legal Translation Centre - ELTC" The ELTC is an Estonian state agency administered by the State Chancellery. This site contains Estonian and EC legislation in English and Estonian. The site includes a Multilingual Glossary of the European Union and a terminology database called ESTERM, that contains the terminology extracted from the legislation of the European Union and of the Estonian Republic. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2186.html ********************************************************************** RESEARCH TIPS Many pages in World Law contain a box with the title Stored Searches located in the bottom section of the page. They are pre-defined searches of World Law and each Stored Search has a different limited search scope. For example see a number of stored searches relevant to Foreign Investment: http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/50056.html Stored searches are often very valuable to find legal information about countries or territories for which there are few dedicated web sites, or for which DIAL has not yet been able to do extensive indexing. For example, see the stored searches for these countries: Nepal - http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2133.html Tajikistan - http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2766.html ********************************************************************** DIAL TRAINING INDONESIAN JUDGES - February 7 2001 14 Judges from Indonesia participated in a DIAL training day at AustLII in Sydney on 7 February. The judges were visiting Australia as part of a 3 month training program (Indonesia Australia Specialised Training Project - Environmental Law and Enforcement Program) operated by ACEL (Australian Centre for Environmental Law) and funded by AusAID. Photos of the day can be viewed at http://www.austlii.edu.au/dial/training/2001/1/ VIET NAM TRAINING - February 2001 The next in-country DIAL training will be in Hanoi in February 2001, hosted by our Vietnamese training partner, the Institute for Legal Research. INDONESIA TRAINING - May 2001 In-country training will take place in Jakarta in May 2001. Details will be posted in the Newsletter as soon as they are finalised. GUIDED TOUR AND EXERCISES Did you know that DIAL now has an online User Guide & Guided Tour, and a set of Online Exercises? They can help you master the user of DIAL and internet legal research. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/special/dial/#training ********************************************************************** DIAL Users Please feel free to distribute DIAL News to interested colleagues. Please try to avoid unsanctioned cross-postings to news groups or email lists. DIAL News will be posted to relevant Internet lists from AustLII. We would like to receive comments and suggestions for improvements to the Newsletter via the DIAL User List. Remember if you have any questions about legal research using DIAL, or other questions about legal research using the Internet, you can send your questions to the DIAL User List and the Project DIAL team will do its best to assist. ********************************************************************** TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE DIAL USER LIST See http://www.austlii.edu.au/dial/ The Project DIAL Team See http://www.austlii.edu.au/dial/DIAL_team.html END OF DIAL NEWS ================