AustLII's expanding legal research facilities: the innovation engine for development of Commonwealth, common law and Asian legal information infrastructure

Project Member(s): Mowbray, A.

Funding or Partner Organisation: University of New South Wales
Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Infrastructure)
CCH Australia Ltd
Sun Microsystems
Australian Law Reform Commission
Griffith Hack
Defence Legal
Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Migration Review Tribunal
Mallesons Stephen Jacques (Mallesons and other Law Firms)
Counsel's Chambers Ltd (Counsel's Chambers Ltd and other Bar Organisations)
Refugee Review Tribunal (Refugee Review Tribunal)
Federal Magistrates Court of Australia (Federal Magistrates Court)
Supreme Court of Tasmania
National Native Title Tribunal
Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department (Attorney-General's Department (Commonwealth) PF)
Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal (NSW) (Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal of New South Wales)
South Australian Industrial Relations Court
Takeovers Panel and other Boards and Tribunals
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)

Start year: 2006

Summary: The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) is increasing the sophistication and scope of its Australian Internet legal research infrastructure: more interconnections built on more data, for better research. It is leading development of new free access Commonwealth and Asian legal research facilities, and integrating them into the global WorldLII (World Legal Information Institute) platform, in cooperation with international partners. All Australian legal researchers, the Australian community, and national interests, are benefiting. Stage 1 starts the innovations and new databases on AustLII, develops the core of the new international facilities, increases system security and reliability, and satisfies increasing access demands.

Keywords: computerisation of law, legal research, hypertext, law, information retrieval,

FOR Codes: Law, Justice and Law Enforcement not elsewhere classified, Information Storage, Retrieval and Management, Global Information Systems, Information services not elsewhere classified, Justice and the law not elsewhere classified, International relations not elsewhere classified, Records and Information Management (excl. Business Records and Information Management), Law and Legal Studies not elsewhere classified, Electronic Information Storage and Retrieval Services, Inter-organisational, extra-organisational and global information systems, Recordkeeping informatics, Command, Control and Communications, Other law and legal studies not elsewhere classified, International relations, Justice and the law

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.