*********************************************************************** NEWS FROM AUSTLII http://www.austlii.edu.au/ Tuesday 8 June 1999 *********************************************************************** CONTENTS: The 2nd AustLII Conference on Law via the Internet Please contact us New databases and home pages ------------------------------------------- THE 2ND AUSTLII CONFERENCE ON LAW VIA INTERNET AustLII will host its second conference on 21-23 July 1999. Law via the Internet '99 will present over 40 speakers from 12 countries, many of them world-renowned for their work on access to law via the internet. See the Conference Programme at http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/conference/programme.html for full details. Just a few of our Plenary Session speakers: * Tom Bruce (Co-Director, Cornell Legal Information Institute, USA) The future for public legal information * Peter Johnson (Director, SoftLaw Corporation, Australia) A web-based revolution in Australian public administration? * Lyonette Louis-Jacques (University of Chicago Law School, USA) How easy can we make world-wide legal research on the web? * Victor Perton MP (Victorian Parliament) Victoria's Proposals for a 21st Century Legal System * Evan Predavec (Butterworths Online, Australia) Re-inventing commercial legal publishing for the web * Daniel Poulin (LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada) Canada's approach to standards for law on the web * Bruce Mcleod (Spirit Networks, Canberra ) Information Overload Equals Pattern Recognition - Making public access to SCALEplus more User Friendly * Abdul Paliwala (CTI Law Technology Centre and Law Courseware Consortium, Warwick, UK) Awful and less awful ways of doing distance learning: roles for the web * Bob Hughes (Dean, Faculty of Law, University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu) Putting the law of the South Pacific states on the net * Judge David Harvey (District Court of New Zealand) A judicial perspective on public access to case law The conference will be held at the Haymarket Campus of the University of Technology, Sydney in the middle of Sydney's Darling Harbour and Chinatown districts. Both the speakers and the food will make it a very memorable event for all attending! Tutorials on legal research on the web and on building legal web sites will be offered on 21 July, and the Conference proper will take place on 22-23 July. Our 1997 Conference and Tutorials were sold out, so please register now to avoid disappointment. Proceeds from the Conference will support AustLII's provision of free access to law via the net. Enquiries concerning registration or concerning sponsorship of the Conference should be directed to the Conference Administrator, Cathy Thomson (mailto:cathy@austlii.edu.au). Further details and registration forms are at http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/conference/ We hope you can join us in July. ------------------------------------------- PLEASE CONTACT US Finally, we would like to invite you to contact us if your organisation would like to become more involved with AustLII. Courts, Tribunals and other organisations holding important public legal information are invited to contact us to discuss how their databases could be published via AustLII. We also welcome enquiries concern the advantages of an organisation providing sponsorship for databases on AustLII. Enquiries should be directed to AustLII's Manager Philip Chung (philip@austlii.edu.au) or Co-Director Graham Greenleaf (graham@austlii.edu.au). ------------------------------------------- NEW DATABASES AND HOME PAGES Some recent databases and home pages added to AustLII: Administrative Appeals Tribunal of New South Wales Decisions http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/nsw/NSWADT/ Queensland Consolidated Legislation http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/ Queensland Consolidated Regulations http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_reg/ Queensland Industrial Court Decisions http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QIC/ Queensland Industrial Relations Commission Decisions http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QIRComm/ Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission Decisions http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/wa/WAIRComm/ ------------------------------------------- Please feel free to distribute 'News from AustLII' either electronically or in print form. 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