DIAL News
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30 August 2002
2002/8

In this issue:
* NEW LEGISLATION
* OTHER NEW AND UPDATED MATERIALS
* LAW AND POLICY REFORM
* FEATURED WEBSITE
* RESEARCH TIPS
* DIAL TRAINING

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NEW LEGISLATION

"Legislation and Policy Mandates" (South Africa)
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/catalog/2041.html

"Laws and Regulations" (Philippines)
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/catalog/248.html

"Canadian Legislations / Legislations canadiennes"
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/catalog/2039.html

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OTHER NEW AND UPDATED MATERIALS

LAW REFORM>>HONG KONG LAW REFORM PUBLICATIONS
A new category was added to the Hong Kong Law Reform page 
to include HK Law Reform related publications. Publications include 
full text of reports and consultation papers of the Law Reform 
Commission of Hong Kong.
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/catalog/53713.html

LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTES>>GOVERNMENT LEGAL 
INFORMATION SERVICES
Major government-run websites that provide free access to 
legislation, cases and other legal information were added to 
the Legal Information Institutes page under the subcategory 
'Government Legal Information Services'.
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/catalog/53730.html

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LAW AND POLICY REFORM

RUSSIAN FEDERATION>>LAW REFORM
"Russian Foundation for Legal Reform"
Project funded by the World Bank to improve the performance 
of Russia's legal system in areas key to the functioning of a
market economy. Available only in Russian. 
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/catalog/51631.html

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FEATURED WEBSITE

NEW ZEALAND>>LEGISLATION
"Public Access to Legislation Project (PAL Project)"
This project is designed to improve the way in which New Zealand 
legislation is made available to the public. Its aim is to provide 
public access to up-to-date official legislation in both printed 
and electronic form. Available from the Parliamentary Counsel 
Office (PCO) website.
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/catalog/2050.html

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RESEARCH TIPS

Search Options - from the 'Find' menu

[all of these words] - If you want more than one phrase or word 
to appear in the retrieved documents, use the [all of these words] 
option. For example, to find documents containing the terms 
'software' as well as the words 'copyright' and 'illegal', you would 
type: software copyright illegal (less the quotes of course) in the 
search option.This means you are searching for only those 
documents that contain all of the search terms you have typed in 
the search field. This is a more restrictive search than using 
[any of these words]. In most cases [any of these words] is a 
better choice, because items which contain all of the search terms 
will still be ranked at the top of the list of results, but other valuable 
items which contain some but not all of the search terms may 
also be found.

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DIAL TRAINING

CHINA TRAINING
Training took place in China in August. Photos from the training 
will be available soon.

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/

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