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News from AustLII (24 October 1995)


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24 October 1995

This is the second 'News from AustLII' to inform those who have shown an interest in AustLII of new developments.

We would appreciate the widest possible distribution of this News.


HIGH COURT DECISIONS SINCE 1950

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/high_ct

The big event this week has been the addition of the full text of High Court decisions since 1950 - 6,312 cases in total.

The decisions can be browsed through a table of contents or accessed by a search for a case name. The full text of the cases can also searched using AustLII's search engine, SINO.

Thanks go to the High Court for supporting the inclusion of their judgments on AustLII, and in particular to the Marshall, Lex Howard. Thanks are also due to the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department for providing the data, and in particular to David Grainger of SCALE.


COMMONWEALTH CONSOLIDATED ACTS AND REGULATIONS

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/

Since May this year, AustLII's Commonwealth Consolidated Acts comprise 1167 (out of 1206) Commonweatlh Acts, consolidated as at 22 May 1995. Our Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations comprise 566 (out of 630) Regulations, Rules, Determinations Declarations and Plans consolidated as at 22 May 1995.

AustLII's legislation is being used increasingly by other information providers on the world-wide-web to enhance their own web publications. For example, the web versions of the Legal Issues paper and other papers presented to the National Information Services Council (NISC) meeting chaired by the Prime Minister on 11 August contained links to dozens of Acts contained on AustLII. Encouraging such creative use of the web is one of AustLII's main goals.
(see http://www.nla.gov.au/pmc/nisc/aug95/legal.html)


NSW LAW REFORM COMMISSION - 7 new Reports

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/nswlrc/

Today we have added the full text of 7 new law reform reports and discussion papers from the NSW Law Reform Commission, covering matters as diverse as

These reports were prepared for inclusion on AustLII by our principal consultant, Peter van Dijk.


SEARCH (ALMOST) EVERYTHING ON AUSTLII AT ONCE

http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinoform.pl

Another new feature is that all the Acts, Regulations, High Court cases and (most) NSW Law Reform Commission Reports can be searched with just one 'Full AustLII SINO Search'.


AUSTLII'S INDEX TO 'AUSTRALASIAN LAW ON THE NET'

http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/austral_law.html

Three weeks ago we added a comprehensive index to all Australian and New Zealand legal materials available on the internet. Since then we have been updating the index weekly, adding an average of 20 new items each week. The index now contains over 250 items.


USAGE IS RISING FAST

This week we are averaging 4,000 'hits' (pages accessed) per business day, and 1,400 hits per weekend day. For the past 4 weeks, our usage has increased by an average of about 40% per week. Approximately 75% of all access comes from within Australia.


AustLII Management:

Andrew Mowbray, University of Technology, Sydney, Faculty of Law
Co-Director (andrew@law.uts.edu.au) Tel:(02) 281 2699

Graham Greenleaf, University of New South Wales Faculty of Law
Co-Director (g.greenleaf@unsw.edu.au) Tel:(02) 385 2233

Geoffrey King, AustLII
Manager (geoff@austlii.edu.au) Tel:(02) 281 2699


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