____________________________________________________________________ NEWS FROM AUSTLII - LAW VIA THE INTERNET 2001 PROGRAM DETAILS http://www.austlii.edu.au/ 16 November 2001 ____________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS Law via the Internet 2001 Program Details Sponsors ____________________________________________________________________ LAW VIA THE INTERNET 2001 Law via the Internet 2001 will take place at the University of Technology, Sydney from the 28-30 November, 2001. Registrations are open now, for more information go to: http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/conference/index.html#Heading5 Our previous conferences were very popular. Please register now to avoid disappointment. Law via the Internet 2001 will feature over forty speakers from around the world and is the leading conference concerning the access of law online. Full program details are available at: http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/conference/program.html ____________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM DETAILS Conference Day 1 - Thursday 29 November 2001 ______________________________________________________________________________ 8:30 Registration - UTS Law Faculty, Ground Floor ______________________________________________________________________________ Plenary Session 1 - Chair: Graham Greenleaf 9:00 Conference Welcome - Dean of the Law Faculty of UTS, Professor David Barker and Dean of the Law Faculty of UNSW, Professor Paul Redmond. 9:15 Opening Speaker - The Hon Michael Black AC, Chief Justice, Federal Court of Australia. 10:00 WorldLII: A global approach to Public Legal Information Andrew Mowbray (AustLII) ______________________________________________________________________________ 10:30 Morning Tea - Law Faculty Courtyard ______________________________________________________________________________ Plenary Session 2 - Chair: Andrew Mowbray (AustLII) 11:00 CanLII 2000-2004 - a Canadian Model for a LII Daniel Poulin (Canadian Legal Information Institute) 11:30 IT and Transformations in Legal Practice and Education in Japan and Australia Makoto Ibusuki (Professor, Kagoshima University Faculty of Law and Policy) and Luke Nottage (Barrister and Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney Law Faculty) 12:00 World Law: Finding law after Google Graham Greenleaf (AustLII) 12:30 Keeping statutory law current, historical , free and useful - the Hong Kong experience Allan Roger (Manager of Information Technology and Resources, Department of Justice, HK) ________________________________________________________________________________ 1:00 Lunch - Law Faculty Courtyard ________________________________________________________________________________ Parallel Session 1A - Impact of the Internet on Legal Practice (I) - Chair: Russell Allen (AustLII) 2:00 Three Case Studies from the Coal Face - Transforming the Delivery of Legal Services Margot Faraci and Petra Stirling (Blake Dawson Waldron) 2:20 Legal Service Providers as Application Service Providers Brent Fisse and Damien Piper (Gilbert and Tobin) 2:40 Security and Authentication for the Court Process Sally Kay (Law Society of NSW) 3:00 New Zealand Courts in the Information Age Judge David Harvey (District Court Judge, Otahuhu, New Zealand) _______________________________________________________________________________ Parallel Session 1B - Pathways to Legal Information (I) - Chair: Armin Wittfoth (AustLII) 2:00 Edge - a big step in delivering better public services Martin Kos (Centrelink) and Lisa Foreman (Department of Family and Community Services) 2:20 Weblaw: A subject gateway to Australian legal resources Clare Cappa (WebLaw Coordinator, University of Queensland) 2:40 Communications Law Centre: Oz NetLaw the Internet Law Practice of the CLC John Corker (Communications Law Centre, Manager of Oz NetLaw) 3:00 Law Handbook Online case study Di Thompson and Catherine Irving (SA Legal Services Commission) ________________________________________________________________________________ 3:20 Afternoon Tea - Law Faculty Courtyard ________________________________________________________________________________ Parallel Session 2A - Impact of the Internet on Legal Practice (II) - Chair: Russell Allen (AustLII) 3:40 Magistrates Court Electronic Lodgment Steven Taylor (South Australian Courts Administration Authority) 4:00 Electronic Pre-Lodgment Andrew Cannon (Magistrate - Magistrates Court of South Australia) 4:20 Exceptional Service Demanded by Legal Users Peter Barker (Law4u) 4:40 Panel: The Impact of the Internet on Legal Practice Michael McHugh (NSW Bar Association) Margot Faraci (Blake Dawson Waldron) Damien Piper (Gilbert and Tobin) Brent Fisse (Gilbert and Tobin) Russell Allen (AustLII) Peter Barker (Law4u) Friedrich Schwank (Law Offices Dr. F. Schwank, Austria) ______________________________________________________________________________ Parallel Session 2B - Asian and Pacific Law on the Internet - Chair: Graham Greenleaf (AustLII) 3:40 Re-Architecturing Online Caselaw - Legal Research in Singapore Ken Hwee Tan (Asst Director, Singapore Academy of Law) 4:00 Human Rights and the Internet: A Case Study of Comparative Case Law in Asia Robyn Emerton (Research Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong) 4:20 Judicial and Court Information through the Internet Dougal McKechnie (Manager Judicial Libraries at the Department for Courts, New Zealand) 4:40 Panel - Asian and Pacific Law on the Internet Priscilla Leung (Associate Professor of City University of Hong Kong, CEO isinolaw Research Centre) Makoto Ibusuki (Professor, Kagoshima University Faculty of Law and Policy) Ken Hwee Tan (Asst Director, Singapore Academy of Law) Robynne Blake (PacLII) Tony von Brandenstein (Executive Officer, Treaties Secretariat, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) ______________________________________________________________________________ 5:30 Close Day 1 Sessions ______________________________________________________________________________ 7:30 Conference Dinner - Level 1, Customs House, Barnett Long Room ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Conference Day 2 - Friday 30 November 2001 ______________________________________________________________________________ Plenary Session 3 - Chair: Andrew Mowbray (AustLII) 9:00 Forrest Rhoads, Westlaw, Legal Publishing in the Internet Era 9:30 The Federal Court of Australia - Electronic filing and the ecourt online forum Philip Kellow (Federal Court of Australia) 10:00 About time: legislation's forgotten dimension Tim Arnold-Moore (Multimedia Database Systems, RMIT) 10:30 Researching law on the Internet: the H.G. Wells perspective. Practical time travel Christoph Schnelle and Andrew Bateman(Timebase) ______________________________________________________________________________ 11:00 Morning Tea - Law Faculty Courtyard ______________________________________________________________________________ Parallel Session 3A - Teaching Law Using Internet Resources - Chair: Philip Chung (AustLII) 11:30 Using Pathways in Teaching Corporate Law Abe Herzberg, Deborah Jones and Phillip Lipton (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) 11:50 The Role of the Internet in the LLB: Some lessons from Adelaide Bernadette Richards (Electronic Resources Specialist, The University of Adelaide) 12:10 Are University Students Adequately Skilled to use the e-Learning Tools? Bill Childs (Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney) 12:30 Panel - Teaching Law Using Internet Resources Priscilla Leung (Associate Professor of City University of Hong Kong, CEO isinolaw Research Centre) Donna Buckingham (Faculty of Law University of Otago, NZ) Bill Childs (Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney) Phillip Lipton (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) Robyn Emerton (Research Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong) ______________________________________________________________________________ Parallel Session 3B - Commercial Legal Publishing in a Cut-Price World - Chair: Gordon Finlayson (AustLII) 11:30 Case Study: Australian Business Limited's New Publishing Approach Rose-Anne Manns (Australian Business Limited) 11:50 EBusiness strategies for Law Firms - which One is Right for you? Jamie Wodetzki and Jason Harrop (Speedlegal) 12:10 Panel: Commercial Legal Publishing in a Cut-Price World Michael Orrick (Thomson Legal and Regulatory) Forrest Rhoads (Westlaw) Rose-Anne Manns (Australian Business Limited) Greg Wildisen (Diskcovery) Jamie Wodetzki (Speedlegal) ______________________________________________________________________________ 1:00 Lunch - Yum Cha, Marigold Restaurant, Chinatown ______________________________________________________________________________ Parallel Session 4A - Technical Challenges in Online Legal Information - Chair: Andrew Mowbray (AustLII) 2:30 Towards a uniform representation of multi-jurisdictional legislation-like instruments Armin Wittfoth (AustLII) 2:50 CanLII 2000-2004 - Technical Strategy Ernst Perpignand and Daniel Poulin (Canadian Legal Information Institute) 3:10 AustLII's AIDE: Implementing rulebase systems Russell Allen (AustLII) 3:30 Managing secondary legal resources on AustLII Madeleine Davis (AustLII) ______________________________________________________________________________ Parallel Session 4B - Pathways to Legal Information (II) - Chair : Takao Hasuike(AustLII) 2:30 Citation Standards and Linking Rules Pearl Rozenberg (School of Business, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney) 2:50 The Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC): providing pathways to legal information for the community Sue Walden (LIAC) 3:10 New Opportunities for Pro Bono Support - The Lawstuff Cyber Volunteer Program Louis Schetzer (Director and Principal Solicitor, National Children's & Youth Law Centre) 3:30 Marketing Access to the Law via the Internet Peter Foster-Bunch (www.LegalAccess.com.au) ______________________________________________________________________________ 3:50 Afternoon Tea ______________________________________________________________________________ Closing Panel : Graham Greenleaf (AustLII) 4:20 Closing Panel - Is There a Future For Free Legal Information? Daniel Poulin (Canadian Legal Information Institute) Graham Greenleaf (Co-director, AustLII) Andrew Mowbray (Co-director, AustLII) Ruth Ward (South Africa Constitutional Court Library Consultant) Ken Hwee Tan (Asst Director, Singapore Academy of Law) Allan Roger (Manager of Information Technology and Resources, Department of Justice, HK) Michael Orrick (Thomson Legal and Regulatory) Robynne Blake (PacLII) Priscilla Leung (Associate Professor of City University of Hong Kong, CEO isinolaw Research Centre) ______________________________________________________________________________ 5:00 Close of Conference ______________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ SPONSORS AustLII gratefully acknowledges the support of the following organisations in supporting Law via the Internet 2001: - The Lawbook Co. A Thomson Company - The New South Wales Bar Association - Diskcovery Information Management Solutions - Workplace Info, published by Australian Business Limited For more information on these organisations, please follow the links from: http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/conference/index.html#sponsors ____________________________________________________________________ SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION News from AustLII is the regular email news update from the Australasian Legal Information Institute http://www.austlii.edu.au/. News from AustLII is only sent to users who have subscribed to the mailing list. To subscribe to News From AustLII send an e-mail message to "majordomo@austlii.edu.au" with the message subscribe austlii-news To unsubscribe, send the message unsubscribe austlii-news See http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/news/ for more information and archives. _______________________________________________________________________ CONTACT DETAILS Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) http://www.austlii.edu.au/ PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007 AUSTRALIA p: +61 2 9514 3174 f: +61 2 9514 3168 e: feedback@austlii.edu.au ____________________________________________________________________ End of AustLII News ____________________________________________________________________