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Australasian Legal Information
Institute
A joint facility of UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law Level 12 Building 10, 235-253 Jones Street P O Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia Tel: +61 2 9514 4921 Fax: +61 2 9514 4908 |
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Left to right: Philip Chung, Executive Director, AustLII; the Honourable Rob Hulls, Victorian Deputy Premier and Attorney-General; Prof Graham Greenleaf, Co-Director, AustLII; Prof Andrew Mowbray, Co-Director, AustLII; Victoria Marles, Legal Services Commissioner and CEO, Legal Services Board |
Free access to the law on-line will be expanded
through a major grant to the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).
Operated jointly by the University of
Technology, Sydney (UTS) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW), AustLII
provides free online access to Australian legal materials through more than 270
databases. The service relies on external contributions to fund its
operations.
The Honourable Rob Hulls,
Victorian Deputy Premier and Attorney-General, announced the grant of
$838,927 to be provided over a three-year period from the Legal Services Board
of Victoria to help make Victoria a model jurisdiction for free access to
law.
AustLII Co-Director and UNSW academic
Professor Graham Greenleaf said the grant would enable AustLII to develop
comprehensive and up-to-date databases of Victorian legal materials, including
legislation, case law, law reform reports, law journals, and community legal
materials. It is hoped the funding will have spillover effects into other
Australian and international
jurisdictions.
“Victoria is the first
Australian jurisdiction to provide a major grant to AustLII to bring its free
access legal materials to the highest possible international standards,”
Professor Greenleaf said.
AustLII Co-Director
and UTS Professor Andrew Mowbray said the materials would be available for free
access to everyone via the AustLII website.
“The grant will also fund research into better technical methods of
providing Victorian materials, which will eventually benefit how AustLII
provides legal materials from all jurisdictions,” he
said.
Media
Contacts:
Graham Greenleaf (UNSW)
Professor 0405081754 g.greenleaf@unsw.edu.au; or
Andrew Mowbray (UTS) Professor 0418 635
275 andrew@austlii.edu.au,
AustLII
website: http://www.austlii.edu.au/
Date issued: 12 August
2008