Monday 8 November 1999,
6.30pm
10 St James Square, London
Joint Evening Meeting - Free the
Law
President: The Right Honourable
Lord Justice Brooke
A joint venture organised by:
Society for Computers & Law ( SCL );
Information Technology and the Courts Committee (ITAC - no
website link);
British & Irish Legal Education Technology Association
( BILETA );
British & Irish Association of Law Librarians ( BIALL );
and Institute of Advanced Legal Studies ( IALS );
in conjunction with
Australasian Legal Information Institute ( AustLII ).
The meeting was arranged to bring
together academics, lawyers, judges, legal librarians and others
with an interest in making legal information in the UK more freely
accessible via the Web.
The main presentation was from
Professor Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law, University of New
South Wales and Co-Director of AustLII, on how AustLII had managed
to achieve the free availability of legal information on the
Internet.
Speakers:
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Mr Stephen Hockman QC, Chairman of
the Practice Management and Development Committee of the Bar
Council .
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Professor Graham Greenleaf,
Professor of Law, University of New South Wales and Co-Director
of AustLII .
Panel Members:
See the full
transcript of the
meeting.
Additional
reading:
Some of the papers delivered at the recent AustLII Conference - Law Via the Internet 99 were
published in JILT
1999 (3) and more will become available
when this issue is fully published in February 2000.
Other useful papers, highlighting
early discussion of some of these key issues include:
Free Access to Electronic Law , Robin Williamson, JILT 1997 (2)
The AustLII Paradigm , Laurence
West-Knights, JILT 1997 (3) Computers and
Judges , Sir Henry Brooke, Jilt 1997
(3)
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