Ramanraj K said on Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:47:07PM +0530,:
Information Institute. The website allows _free_ access to most of the Australian legal resources, including legislation and decisions of
Yes, and in many respects, the US of A is very back in this.
have devised standard notation for citing case law that is uniformly followed througout Australia,
To a large extent, this is because Australia has a well developed and formalised research and citation system within _public_ control. In the US, this is done by private bodies, like (IIRC), LEXIS or NEXIS, and they have a vested interest in that an alternate citation system does not come up.
not everything is free. AFAIK, there are no standard notations that enable citing case-law published at the NIC servers before the courts.
Wait a minute. Is any case law published on any of NIC servers? I have not seen any. May be I am missing something?
The NIC does have a CD of few Sup. ct. decisions for sale. For some reason (it is not actually available if you decide to buy it) people choose to pay three to ten times more for data bases from other So Called Cd vendors.
Again, AFAIK, many proprietary software tools are used in India,
In India, weebee is in public domain (grin).
available at: http://www.lawonline.cc/accesslawright.htm under the title "Free the Law"
Great link.
If you have the time or inclination look into the situation in Singapore. last time I went there (the sites, that is) they required software of a particular brand and version.
And there is a proposal to implement something along those lines in India.