DIAL News ========= 31 January 2002 2002/1 In this issue: * HKLII * NEW LEGISLATION * OTHER NEW AND UPDATED MATERIALS * LAW AND POLICY REFORM * FEATURED WEBSITE * RESEARCH TIPS * DIAL TRAINING ********************************************************************** HKLII The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) have launched Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII). See Featured Website below ********************************************************************** NEW LEGISLATION "Russian Laws in Translation" See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2171.html "Legislación y Declaraciones" See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/52551.html "Taiwan - Arbitration Law of Republic of China (Taiwan)" See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/53209.html ********************************************************************** OTHER NEW AND UPDATED MATERIALS PAKISTAN New legislation and government websites were added to the Pakistan pages on World Law/DIAL. Topics from these websites cover contracts, family law, tax, customs, arbitration, finance and companies. New subject categories were also added to the Pakistan page which now includes Contracts, Succession and Law Reform. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/245.html TAXATION, REVENUE & CUSTOMS>>BY COUNTRY New laws on free zones were added to the legislation pages of the following countries: Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and Russian Federation. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/50106.html ********************************************************************* LAW AND POLICY REFORM LAW REFORM "Centre for International Legal Cooperation - CILC" A non-governmental organisation dedicated to the reform and strengthening of legal systems in developing countries and countries in transition. Contains information about the organisation, its members, current and completed projects, and articles published on Focus, the CILC newsletter. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/52683.html ********************************************************************* FEATURED WEBSITE LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTES>>WORLDLII "Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII)" HKLII provides free access to Hong Kong primary legal materials and includes: Court and Tribunal Judgments from the Court of Final Appeal, Court of Appeal, Court of First Instance, District Court, Family Court and Lands Tribunal; all current Ordinances of Hong Kong; the table of contents of Historical Law of Hong Kong, an image database of Hong Kong's Ordinances back to 1844; domain name arbitration decisions under the .hk domain; Hong Kong Treaties Index; miscellaneous Courts of Hong Kong Judgments 1982-1990 including decisions from the Supreme Court and High Court. See http://www.hklii.org/ Or, see http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/53238.html ********************************************************************** RESEARCH TIPS Several changes have been made to the 'button' bar at the top of every page in World Law/DIAL: [AustLII] - takes you to the homepage of AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute) [WorldLII] - takes you to the database comprising AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute), BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute), CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute), PacLII (Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute) and HKLII (Hong Kong Legal Information Institute) [World Law] - takes you to the homepage of World Law [Recent Additions] - lists new additions to World Law including both new categories (under Subjects, Countries, International etc) and new external links from the Web. In addition, the navigation pathways for new categories and external links are now included for easier user access. For a quick update, the list of Recent Additions also appears on the homepage of World Law [Translate] - translates any page into one of the combination of 10 languages (uses Babelfish) [Add a Link] - presents an email form for users to suggest new external links for World Law ********************************************************************** DIAL TRAINING Details of DIAL Training for 2002 will be advised in the next DIAL News. 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 World Law/DIAL and internet legal research. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/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 DIAL Team will do its best to assist. DIAL Users can participate in the development of World Law/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/userlist.html The DIAL Team See http://www.austlii.edu.au/dial/team.html END OF DIAL NEWS ================