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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.
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)
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
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'.
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.
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