WORLDLII NEWS
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19 December 2003
2003/10
In this issue:
LAW VIA THE INTERNET 2003
FREE ACCESS TO LAW MOVEMENT - NEW PARTICIPANTS
NEW DATABASES AND RESOURCES
NEW CATALOG CONTENT
COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS
We hope WorldLII News has been useful to you and we welcome you
back in the new year 2004 with more news from WorldLII.
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LAW VIA THE INTERNET 2003
AustLII hosted the 5th Conference on Computerisation of Law via the
Internet from 26-28 November in Sydney. We would like to thank all
our speakers, sponsors and delegates in making the conference
such a success.
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/conference/highlights/20031126.html
http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/conference/highlights/20031127.html
http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/conference/highlights/20031128.html
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FREE ACCESS TO LAW MOVEMENT - NEW PARTICIPANTS
Welcome to the new participants in the free access to law movement.
DROIT FRANCOPHONE
Legal portal of the Intergovernmental Agency of French Speaking
Countries developed in collaboration with LexUM (Public Law Research
Centre, University of Montreal). Access to the legal resource sites is
by region, by individual country and by content including international
resources, civil society, public administration, legislation, caselaw,
academic legal areas, the legal profession, news, journals,
conferences and general legal information sites. Also includes
databases of full text legislation and caselaw for selected countries.
See http://portail.droit.francophonie.org/
SOUTHERN AFRICAN LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE (SAFLII)
The Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) is a prototype
system produced from data developed and published by the University
of the Witswaterand Law School with assistance from the Australasian
Legal Information Institute (AustLII).
It currently contains decisions from the Constitution Court of South
Africa, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa and the Land
Claims Court of South Africa, selected South African Consolidated
Legislation and publications of the South African Law Commission.
The Southern African category pages of the WorldLII Catalog are jointly
maintained by Wits Law School and AustLII.
See http://www.saflii.org/
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NEW DATABASES AND RESOURCES
WORLDLII
"Law Reform Project" (WorldLII)
This project aims to make searchable from one location all of the
databases specialising in Law Reform available on any of the Legal
Information Institutes (LIIs) that are part of WorldLII. It also provides
a link to the 'Law Reform' page on the WorldLII Catalog and Websearch.
See http://www.worldlii.org/int/special/lawreform/
"International Courts & Tribunals" (WorldLII)
This project aims to make searchable from one location all of the
international courts and tribunals databases available on WorldLII.
It also provides a link to the 'International Courts & Tribunals' page
on the WorldLII Catalog and Websearch.
See http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/
AUSTLII
"High Court of Australia" (AustLII)
This database contains full text of all decisions of the High Court
of Australia since its inception in 1903. It is now among the few
complete free access online national courts databases of any
country, back to the first decision of the Court.
Thanks to Thomson Legal & Regulatory Pty Ltd for the generous provision
of a complete digital set of decisions 1903-47.
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/
CANLII
"Automobile Injury Appeal Commission" (CanLII)
This collection contains decisions from the Automobile Injury
Appeal Commission of Saskatchewan made publicly available
as of 1 January 2003.
See http://www.canlii.org/sk/cas/skaia/
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NEW CATALOG CONTENT
NEW LEGISLATION
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"Laws & Regulations" (South Korea)
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/262.html
"Law on Customs Policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Part I)"
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/51060.html
"Law on Customs Policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Part II)"
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/51060.html
OTHER NEW AND UPDATED MATERIALS
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NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS>>COURTS & CASE-LAW
"Commonwealth Superior Court Slip Opinions" (Northern Mariana Islands)
Full text in PDF from January 1997 to present. Available from the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Law
Revision Commission website.
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/54833.html
"Supreme Court Opinions June 1996 thru Present" (Northern Mariana Islands)
Full text in PDF. Available from the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands (CNMI) Law Revision Commission website.
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/54833.html
LAW AND POLICY REFORM
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HUMAN RIGHTS
"Centre for Human Rights" (South Africa)
Provides legal education on human rights through academic
programmes and research, including education, research and
training on gender issues. Publishes the Human Rights Law in
Africa Series, the African Human Rights Law Journal and
Occasional Papers. Also contains the South African Bill of
Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in all
eleven official languages of South Africa. The Centre is based
at the University of Pretoria.
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/50808.html
FEATURED WEBSITE
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PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW
"Private International Law"
Provides information, summaries and full text of Instruments
adopted by the Inter-American Specialized Conferences on Private
International Law (CIDIP, acronym in Spanish) chronologically and
by topic, as well as information on the Organization of American States
(OAS) Department on International Law's activities in this area and
recent news. Available on the website of the OAS Department on
International Law.
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/3055.html
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