WORLDLII NEWS
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3 July 2005
2005/2

In this issue:

LAW VIA THE INTERNET CONFERENCE 2005 - CALL FOR PAPERS
NEW AND UPDATED DATABASES
    AustLII (8), JuriBurkina (2), PacLII (1)
NEW CATALOG CONTENT
COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS

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LAW VIA THE INTERNET CONFERENCE 2005

The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII), in conjunction
with the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), will
host the 7th 'Law via Internet' Conference on 17-19 November 2005
in Vila, Republic of Vanuatu. Previous Law via Internet Conferences
have been held in Sydney (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003), Montreal (2002)
and Paris (2004).

Law via the Internet 2005 will present both submitted and invited papers.
The Conference will be preceded by the annual meeting of the Free Access
to Law Movement on 17 November, and the conference proper will take
place on 18-19 November.

See <http://www.paclii.org/paclii/conference/2005/>

CALL FOR PAPERS

This year we hope to have a particular focus on the following areas:
encouraging free access to law in developing countries; Europe's moves
toward coordinated free access to law; social impact of access to
legal information; legislation systems; search techniques for legal
information; and innovative research uses of online legal data. Papers
in these areas are particularly welcome. More information can be found
at <http://www.paclii.org/paclii/conference/2005/callforpapers.html>

SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES

There are a number of sponsorship packages available for those interested
in sponsoring the 2005 Conference. Please contact Cathy Quigley
 or David Vaile 
for more information.

Proceeds from the Conference will support the provision of free access
to law via the net.

We hope you can join us in November.

Robynne Blake, Director, PacLII
Graham Greenleaf, Co-Director, AustLII and WorldLII
Programme Co-Chairs

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NEW AND UPDATED DATABASES

AUSTLII

"Point-in-time Legislation Project"
The PiT Legislation System allows an AustLII user to see an Act or
section as it was at any day in the past, for those years covered
by the system. Users can inspect all versions of a section, and
can visually compare sections at different dates side-by-side.
AustLII's PiT already covers all NSW legislation, and part of the
legislation of South Australia and Queensland. These databases
are considered to be experimental. This project aims to apply a
generic approach to developing point-in-time legislation which
will now be applied progressively to legislation from all Australian
jurisdictions
See http://portsea.austlii.edu.au/pit/

"Superior Courts of Tasmania (pre-1900)"
This is an historical database containing edited records of decisions
of the Superior Courts of Tasmania handed down prior to 1900. The
database currently covers selected decisions from 1824-1842.
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/TASSupC/ 


"Office of the Victorian Privacy Comissioner"
This database contains selected case notes from the Office of the
Victorian Privacy Commissioner since 2003.
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VPrivCmr/

"Town Planning Appeal Tribunal of Western Australia"
This database contains full text decisions of the Town Planning
Appeal Tribunal of Western Australia as selected by the Tribunal
from 2003-2004. This Tribunal has now been replaced by the
State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia.
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/wa/WATPAT/

"State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia"
This database contains full text decisions of the State Administrative
Tribunal of Western Australia since its inception in 2005.
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/wa/WASAT/

"Macquarie Law Journal"
The full text of the Macquarie Law Journal from 2001 is now available
on AustLII.
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MqLJ/

"Macquarie Business Law Journal"
The full text of the Macquarie Business Law Journal from 2004 is
now available on AustLII.
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MqBLJ/

"Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Tribunal of Tasmania"
This database contains full-text decisions of the Workers Rehabilitation
and Compensation Tribunal of Tasmania since 2004.
See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/tas/TASWRCT/

JURIBURKINA

"Tribunal de Travail de Bobo Dioulasso"
This database contains full text of decisions of the Labor Tribunal of Bobo 
Dioulasso from 2003.
See http://www.juriburkina.org/doc/html/bf/jug/ttb/fr/

"Cour d'appel de Bobo Dioulasso"
This database contains full text of decisions of the Court of Appeal of 
Bobo Dioulasso from 2001.
See http://www.juriburkina.org/doc/html/bf/jug/cab/fr/

PACLII

"Pacific Islands Treaty Series" (PacLII)
The Pacific Islands Treaty Series focuses on publishing, in both
French and English, the bilateral and multilateral treaties and
conventions that 21 Pacific Island states have entered into, in a
wide-range of categories. The project also identifies the
ratification (domesticating) legislation passed by those countries.
The agreements (treaties) contained on the website include,
amongst others, environmental treaties, fisheries agreement,
human rights, peacekeeping treaties and the international
conventions these Pacific Island states have entered into. The
Pacific Islands Treaty Series displays the international rights and
obligations of the Pacific Island states from the late 19th
Century to date, thus showing the evolving priorities and
commitments at international level of each Pacific Island state.
See http://www.paclii.org/pits/

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NEW CATALOG CONTENT

NEW LEGISLATION
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"Les textes legislatifs et reglementaires" (Cameroon)
This database contains full text in French of decrees, laws, regulations
and ordinances. Available on the Office of the Prime Minister website.
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/50708.html

"1000 years of Laws" (Hungary)
Free access, full text of the laws of Hungary beginning with the reign
of St Stephen (approximately 997 AD) through the medieval age to
the present. Approximately 10,000 laws are available in Hungarian.
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/2293.html

OTHER NEW AND UPDATED MATERIALS
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E-JOURNALS
"ACCC ejournal" (Australia)
Free, monthly online journal published by the Australian Competition
and Consumer Commission (ACCC) covering the latest developments
in trade practices law and consumer issues. Includes new, ongoing
and finalised cases in relation to enforcement, speeches, news
releases, mergers and other regulatory issues.
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/2657.html

COURTS & CASE-LAW
"Court of Appeal of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas"
This is the official website of the Court of Appeal of The Bahamas
and contains full text of decisions in PDF.
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/51673.html

LAW AND POLICY REFORM
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LAW REFORM
"Rule of Law and Judicial Reform"
Contains links to government websites, several articles, papers and
books related to rule of law and judicial reform in Mexico. Available
on the Human Rights in Latin America website.
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/52114.html

FEATURED WEBSITE
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LEGISLATION
"Laws of Gibraltar"
This database contains all primary and secondary consolidated
legislation to date and it is searchable by keyword, subject or
legislation number. Full text of legislation are in PDF and made
available by the Government of Gibraltar.
See http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/55642.html

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