Law via the Internet 2005
Computerisation of Law via the Internet
University of the South Pacific
Emalus Campus, Port Vila, Vanuatu
17-19 November 2005
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Law via the Internet 2005Computerisation of Law via the Internet University of the South Pacific |
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Last updated 13 November 2005 |
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| Thursday 17 November 2005 | |
| 11:00am - 5:00pm | |
| 11:00am | Annual Meeting of Legal Information Institutes and the Free Access to Law Movement - All Conference speakers and delegates welcome |
| 5:30pm - 9:00pm | |
| 5:30pm | Conference Welcome & Cultural Night - USP Law School, Emalus Campus - Melanesian Feast and cultural performances presented by the students of USP Law School |
| Friday 18 November 2005 - Opening and keynote presentations | |
| 8:30am | Registration |
| Chair: Andrew Mowbray | |
| 9:00am | Professor Robert Hughes (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Law, University of the South Pacific) - Welcome to the Conference |
| 9:15am | Ombudsman of the Republic of Vanuatu - Opening of Conference |
| 9:30am | Justice Stuart Morris (President, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Australia) - The Importance of Free Access to Law in a Participatory Planning Appeals System |
| 10:00am | Esther Williams (Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of the South Pacific) - Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Practising Law Virtually Only a Click Away |
| 10:30am | Anne Gras (President de tribunal administratif et de cour administrative d'appel, Nouvelle-Caledonie) - Legicaledonie |
| 11:00am | Morning Tea |
| 11:30am - 12:45pm | New techniques for internet law resources |
| Chair: Pierre-Paul Lemyre | |
| 11:30am | Karl Charbonneau, Marc-Andre Morissette, Daniel Poulin (LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada) - PULP: Serving the needs for open publication of law in Canada |
| 11:55am | Armin Wittfoth, Philip Chung, Graham Greenleaf and Andrew Mowbray (AustLII) - Making Point-in-time legislation generic |
| 12:20pm | Daniel Poulin, Eric Pare and Ivan Mokanov (LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada) - RefLex – Bridging Open Access with a Legacy Legal Information System |
| 12:45pm | Lunch |
| 1:45pm - 3:25pm | Pacific law online I |
| Chair: Donna Buckingham | |
| 1:45pm | Dr Mohammed L Ahmadu (University of the South Pacific, Fiji)- Expectation versus Reality: Access to Online Legal Education and Materials in South Pacific Island Countries |
| 2:10pm | Professor Robert Hughes (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Law, University of the South Pacific) and Anton Hughes (Law Faculty, University of Tasmania) - A Virtual Legal Community: An Online Support Network for Pacific Legal Professionals |
| 2:35pm | Peter Murgatroyd (University of the South Pacific) - The Pacific law portal: Development of a Regional Online Law Library to meet the needs of small Island States in the South Pacific |
| 3:00pm | Navinesh Kumar (Fiji Law Reform Commission)- The Internet and Law Libraries in Fiji |
| 3:25pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 3:50pm - 5:10pm | Courts, publishers and online communities |
| Chair: Adish Aggarwala | |
| 3:50pm | Judge Talwant Singh (Additional District Judge, Delhi, India) - ICT in the District Courts of Delhi |
| 4:15pm | Professor Makoto Ibusuki (Ritsumeikan School of Law, Kyoto, Japan) - Digital Revolution on the Japanese Legal Resources: Why and How |
| 4:40pm | Federal Magistrate Grant Riethmuller (FM, Federal Magistrates Court, Melbourne) - Encouraging Internet-ready Judgments in the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia [Short] |
| 4:55pm | Gayle Davies (Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, NSW) - The Conversion of NSW Court of Criminal Appeal Judgments to Electronic Format [Short] |
| 5:10pm | Close Day 1 Sessions |
| 6:30pm | Dinner - Tamanu on the Beach - Delegates to gather at Le Meridien foyer for transport to Tamanu |
| Saturday 19 November 2005 | |
| 9:00am - 11:00am | Improving networks for free access to law |
| Chair: Daniel Poulin | |
| 9:00am | Andrew Mowbray, Philip Chung and Graham Greenleaf (AustLII), Roger Burton West (BAILII) - Improving a global research network of free access providers of legal information: Synchronisation, stability, redundancy, load balancing and shared metadata |
| 9:30am | Pierre-Paul Lemyre (LexUM – CRDP, University of Montreal, Canada) - Availability, Reliability and Usability: Some Thoughts About Free Access to Law |
| 10:00am | Graham Greenleaf, Andrew Mowbray and Philip Chung (AustLII) - CommonLII - Creating a commons of the common law |
| 10:30am | Panel Session: Will a truly global free law network emerge? - (Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Droit Francophone; Robynne Blake, PacLII; Daniel Poulin, CanLII; Maria Badeva, SAFLII; Andrew Mowbray, AustLII) |
| 11:00am | Morning Tea |
| 11:30am - 12:45pm | Law libraries and the Internet |
| Chair: Peter Murgatroyd | |
| 11:30am | Janine Miller (CanLII, Canada) - The Institute or the Law Library? |
| 11:55am | James G Milles (State University of New York, University of Buffalo Law School) - Collection Economics: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Market |
| 12:20pm | Panel Session: Law libraries and the Internet - (Peter Murgatroyd; Jacqueline Elliott; James G Milles; Janine Miller; Navinesh Kumar) |
| 12:45pm | Lunch |
| 1:45pm - 3:05pm | Publishers and users - online challenges |
| Chair: Janine Miller | |
| 1:45pm | Dan Hunter (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania/University of Melbourne) - Walled Gardens |
| 2:10pm | Erica Taylor (CCH Australia Limited) - Commercial Legal Publishing On-Line |
| 2:35pm | Dr Oladejo Olowu (University of the South Pacific) - Citing the Law: The Challenges of Uniform Referencing Style for Internet-Based Resources in the South Pacific [Short] |
| 2:50pm | Margaret McAleese (University of Sydney) - Encouraging the Use of Medium Neutral Citation [Short] |
| 3:05pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 3:35pm - 5:15pm | Pacific law online II |
| Chair: Robert Hughes | |
| 3:35pm | Roslyn Hoping and Julie Hulama (Office of Legislative Counsel and National Judicial Staff Services, Law and Justice Sector Program, Papua New Guinea) - Electronic Publishing of Laws: The Way to Go for Papua New Guinea |
| 4:00pm | Donna Buckingham (NZLII) - What’s in a Name? New Zealand and the growth of free on-line legal information |
| 4:25pm | Professor Hajime Nishitani (Hiroshima University) - Application of Treaties under Japanese Law - Necessities for Database |
| 4:50pm | Edward P Wolfers (Professor of Politics, University of Wollongong, Australia) - Challenges for law online in the Pacific (presented by Don Paterson) |
| 5:15pm | Conference closing ceremony |
| 7:00pm | Informal drinks and tapas at Chantilly's |