DIAL News ========= 23 March 2001 2001/5 In this issue: * NEW LEGISLATION * OTHER NEW AND UPDATED MATERIALS * LAW AND DEVELOPMENT * FEATURED WEBSITE * RESEARCH TIPS * DIAL TRAINING ********************************************************************** NEW LEGISLATION "Mental Health Act & Mental Health Law" (United Kingdom) See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/52425.html "Consumer Law" (Denmark) See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/51131.html "Collection of Laws for Electronic Access - CLEA" See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2296.html "Legal Acts of the Republic of Belarus - Civil Law " (Belarus) See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2288.html ********************************************************************** OTHER NEW AND UPDATED MATERIALS THAILAND New websites featuring specific legislation have been added to the Thailand pages on World Law/Project DIAL. The new directories include International Aid Agencies, Criminal Law, Human Rights, Intellectual Property, International Trade, Media & Communications and Taxation, Revenue & Customs. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/266.html NEW ZEALAND The New Zealand directory has been extensively indexed with 30 subcategories of legal information links by source or type of material and by subject. This directory also represents one of the ongoing collaborative efforts that AustLII has established with the Faculty of Law, University of Otago. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/242.html A list of all current contributors to World Law can be viewed at http://www.austlii.edu.au/dial/contributors.html COURTS & CASELAW This Directory includes 110 individual country pages of links to court sites, as well as sub-directories for international courts and tribunals including European courts, human rights courts and tribunals, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the WTO Appellate Body and more. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2172.html ********************************************************************* LAW AND DEVELOPMENT GOOD GOVERNANCE "International Monetary Fund - Standards & Codes" Covers data dissemination, fiscal transparency, includes the full text of the Code of Good Practices on Transparency in Monetary and Financial Policies, the Draft Guidelines for Public Debt Management, other issues in corporate governance and country reports on implementation. In addition, there is a link to the Basle Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision. These Principles cover the preconditions for effective banking regulation and structure and address cross-border banking issues. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/3169.html ********************************************************************* FEATURED WEBSITE COMPETITION LAW "Competition Online" An Irish site specialising in both antitrust law and regulation of utilities. Contains all the Competition Authority of Ireland decisions, news and articles, and a useful world-wide competition, antitrust and regulatory sites list. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2405.html ********************************************************************** RESEARCH TIPS SEARCH RESULTS Any search using the Search (Find) facility at the top of each page in World Law will search for your search terms and display results both over the full text of all sites to which the World Law webspider has been sent (Web pages found) and the catalog itself (Categories in this Index). Only 50 web pages and 50 categories are displayed on the first page. Select |2|, |3| etc to see more web pages or categories. ********************************************************************** DIAL TRAINING CHINA TRAINING In-country training is planned for late April or May 2001. Details will be posted in DIAL News as soon as they are finalised. INDONESIA TRAINING - May 2001 In-country training is planned in Jakarta for May 2001. Details will be posted in DIAL News 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 - COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS WELCOME 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. DIAL Users can participate in the development of World Law/Project DIAL by forwarding new legal websites to add to any of the source, subject or country pages either through the DIAL User list or by clicking on 'Add a Link' at the top of World Law pages. Past issues of DIAL News are located at http://www.austlii.edu.au/dial/news/ ********************************************************************** 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 ================