News from AustLII (17 November 2003)

9:00am         Professor David Barker (Dean of the Faculty of Law,
               University of Technology, Sydney) - Welcome to the
               Conference
9:15am         The Hon A M Gleeson AC (Chief Justice of the High Court
               of Australia) - Opening of Conference and launch of the
               complete High Court of Australia decisions database 1903-
               2003
9:30am         Daniel Poulin (LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada) -
               Free Access to Law in Developing Countries

Parallel 1A Global Law Systems on the Internet: Language, Culture,

Cooperation

10:00am        Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Bobson Coulibaly and Francois Viens
               (LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada) - Droit
               Francophone and Access to Law in the French-Speaking
               World: A Renewed Strategy
10:25am        Graham Greenleaf, Andrew Mowbray and Philip Chung
               (AustLII) - WorldLII's 5 Strategies to Advance Global
               Free Access
10:50am        Morning Tea
11:15am        Kevin K H Pun and Vivien Chan (HKLII, University of Hong
               Kong) - Processing Legal Documents in the Chinese-
               Speaking World: HKLII's Experience
11:40pm        Abdul Paliwala (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) -
               Law and the Digital Divide

Parallel 1B Developing Countries Law Online: The Pacific

12:05pm        Dennis Yamase (Supreme Court of the Federated States of
               Micronesia) - The Law of the Federated States of
               Micronesia: How to Sustain It?
12:30pm        Panel Session - New Zealand and New Guinea: Problem
               cases of the Pacific? (Chair: Donna Buckingham; Geoff
               Lawn; Katrine Evans; Tim Arnold-Moore; Graham Greenleaf)
12:55pm        Lunch

Parallel 1C Developing Countries Law Online: Asia

2:00pm         Daniel Adler (Cambodian Legal Education Center, Phnomh
               Penh, Cambodia) - Access to Legal Information in
               Cambodia: Initial Steps, Future Possibilities
2:25pm         Leo Faraytody (Hukumonline, Indonesia) - Hukumonline and
               Indonesian Developments
2:50pm         Makoto Ibusuki (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) -
               Possibility of Translated Legal Database for Asian
               Countries
3:15pm         Afternoon Tea

Parallel 1D Developing Countries Law Online: Africa

3:35pm         John Montgomery (WITS University, South Africa) -
               Prospects for a Southern African Legal Information
               Institute
4:00pm         Bobson Coulibaly and Pierre-Paul Lemyre (LexUM,
               University of Montreal, Canada) - JuriBurkina: The
               Implementation of a LII in Burkina Faso
4:25pm         Omwanza Ombati (Ahmednasir Abdikadir & Co, Kenya) -
               Access to Legal Information: Still a Pipe Dream for
               Kenya?

Parallel 1E IP and Other Legal Issues in Access to Law

4:50pm         Matthew Hall (Phillips Fox) - Legal Information and the
               Review of the Digital Agenda Act
5:15pm         Pearl Rozenberg (Faculty of Law, University of Sydney) -
               Web Site Access: Can Owners of Sites Control How Others
               Use the Site?
5:40pm         Close Day 1 Sessions
7:00pm         Dinner - Skyline Terrace, Sydney Exhibition & Convention
               Centre, Darling Harbour

Parallel 2A Commercial Legal Publishing on the Web: Difficulties

and Opportunities

10:00am        Murray Finlayson (CCH) - Commercial Publishing via the
               Web: Survival or Maturity?

Parallel 2B Courts via Internet: Access and Efficiency

10:20am        Arthur Hoyle (University of Canberra) - National Court
               of the Future Project
10:50am        Morning Tea
11:15am        Tony Newman SM (South Australian Courts) - Magistrates
               Benchbook: The Use of Intranet to Access Frequently Used
               Information
11:40pm        Sandra Potter (Sir Zelman Cowen Centre for CLE, Victoria
               University) - Use of the Internet in the Courtroom
12:05pm        Andrew Cannon (Magistrates Court, South Australia) -
               Policies to Control Electronic Access to Court Databases
12:30pm        Frederic Pelletier (LexUM, CanLII, Canada) - Protecting
               Identities in Published Case Law: A Canadian Approach
12:55pm        Lunch

Parallel 2C Knowledge-based Legal Applications

2:00pm         Andrew Stranieri (JustSys Pty Ltd) - Integrating
               Intelligent Systems for Refugee Law
2:25pm         Kate Booth and Elizabeth Broderick (Blake Dawson
               Waldron) - Web-based Legal Expert Systems: Virtual
               Lawyers
2:50pm         Andrew Davis and Jamie Wodetzki (Speedlegal) - A Smarter
               Way to Draft Documents
3:15pm         Afternoon Tea

Parallel 2D Law Office Internet Applications

3:35pm         Damien Piper (Gilbert & Tobin) - Do Weblogs have a Place
               in Legal Practice?
4:00pm         Chrissy Burns (Blake Dawson Waldron) - What do Clients
               Want from Knowledge Management?
4:25pm         Kathryn Waugh (Jerrard & Stuk Lawyers) - Six Degrees of
               Separation: Creating a Knowledge Bank of Useful Internet
               Resources
4:50pm         Michael Marks (Secure Deal eXchange) - The Lawyer's
               Mission: To Maximise Client Satisfaction and Legal
               Efficiency - But is Email Good Enough?
5:15pm         Close Day 1 Sessions
7:00pm         Dinner - Skyline Terrace, Sydney Exhibition & Convention
               Centre, Darling Harbour

Plenary Session (28 November 2003)

9:00am         Justice Ruth McColl (New South Wales Court of Appeal) -
               IT in the Courtroom from Both Sides of the Bench
9:30am         Tim Arnold-Moore (RMIT) - XML and Legislation

Parallel 3A Improving Caselaw and Retrieval Techniques

10:00am        Ernst Perpignand (LexUM, CanLII, Canada) - Devising an
               XML DTD for Canadian Cases
10:25am        Andrew Mowbray and Philip Chung (AustLII) - AustLII and
               WorldLII's Automated Search Facilities
10:50am        Morning Tea
11:15am        Marc-Andre Morissette (LexUM, CanLII, Canada) - Using
               Advances in Information Retrieval to Reduce Information
               Overload

Parallel 3B Improving Legislation Online (1)

11:40am        Geoff Lawn (Office of Parliamentary Counsel, New
               Zealand) - Improving Public Access to Legislation: The
               New Zealand Experience
12:05pm        Armin Wittfoth, Philip Chung, Graham Greenleaf and
               Andrew Mowbray (AustLII) - Can One Size Fit All:
               AustLII's Point-in-time Legislation Project?
12:30pm        Lunch - East Ocean Seafood Restaurant, Chinatown

Parallel 3C Improving Legislation Online (2)

2:00pm         Peter Todd (Department of Natural Resources & Mines,
               Queensland) - Synchronising Law and Maps: A Web Based
               Solution
2:25pm         Panel Session - What next in online legislation? (Chair:
               Michael Rubacki (NSWPCO); Geoff Lawn (NZ), Tim Arnold-
               Moore (RMIT))

Parallel 3D International & Comparative Law Online Resources

2:50pm         Alan Fewster (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade),
               Madeleine Davis, Philip Chung, Graham Greenleaf and
               Joseph Kwok (AustLII) - The Australian Treaties Library
               1900-2003: The '5th Pillar' of Treaties Reform
3:15pm         Takato Natsui (Faculty of Law, Meiji University, Japan)
               - Issues Arising from Free Access to Legal Information:
               A Japanese Perspective
3:40pm         Afternoon Tea
4:00pm         Closing Plenary Session - The Hon JJ Spigelman AC (Chief
               Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW) - The Role of
               Internet Publication of Court Decisions in Open Justice
5:00pm         Close Day 2 Sessions

Parallel 4A Legal Education via Internet

10:00am        Bill Willesee (Curtin University) - Can a Computer Grade
               an Internet Uploaded Law Essay? [Short]
10:20am        Cristina Libro and Katherine Mulcahy (College of Law,
               Sydney) - Producing Competent Lawyers: Merging Education
               Technology with Web Based Resources [Short]
10:40am        Morning Tea
11:05am        Pearl Rozenberg (Faculty of Law, University of Sydney) -
               Teaching Using Online Legal Resources: Accessing or
               Creating [Short]
11:25am        Tim Houweling (Edith Cowan University) - How the
               Internet has Changed the Way Law is Taught [Short]
11:45am        Terry Hutchinson and Natalie Cuffe (Faculty of Law,
               Queensland University of Technology) - Web Based Project
               Management for Research Students in Law [Short]

Parallel 4B Finding the Law: Catalogs, Pathways, and Evaluations

12:05pm        Benny Tai (Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong) -
               LawOf: The Development of an Open Online Legal Index
12:30pm        Lunch - East Ocean Seafood Restaurant, Chinatown
2:00pm         Sue Walden (Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC),
               State Library of NSW) - The LIAC Pathway: A Methodology
               for Developing Understanding about the Law
2:25pm         Colin Fong (ATAX, UNSW) - Assessing Free Legal Websites:
               The Good, the Not So Good and the Doable

Parallel 4C Social Impact of Access to Legal Information

2:50pm         Lorna McKenzie, Suzanne Crowle, Don Jones, Jamie Murray
               and Douglas Jordan (Office of Industrial Relations, NSW)
               - Check Your Pay: Online Assistance in Award
               Calculations
3:15pm         Friedrich Schwank (Austria) - Cyberdocs and e-
               Government: Electronic Archive of Austrian Notaries
3:40pm         Afternoon Tea

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