Newest Issue of WorldLII News Available

The most recent issue of WorldLII News is available online.

WorldLII News is the regular news update from the World Legal Information Institute, an independent and non-profit global legal research alliance developed collaboratively by the Cornell Legal Information Institute, the Canadian Legal Information Institute, the Australian Legal Information Institute and others.

This newest issue contains information about new and/or updated free legal databases that are part of the WorldLII collection.

The new/updated material comes from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Turkmenistan, Bulgaria, Croatia and Venezuela.

There is a web page with archives as well as subscription information (it is free).

Earlier Library Boy posts about WorldLII include:

• WorldLII Special Project Resources (June 2, 2006): this post describes some of the special database projects at WorldLII, including the Privacy Law Library, the International Courts & Tribunals Project, the Law Journals Project, and the Domain Name Decisions Project
• Grey Literature Week at Slaw.ca (August 9, 2006): this post mentions the WorldLII Law Reform Project that aims to make searchable from one location all of the databases on law reform available on any of the Legal Information Institutes that are part of WorldLII. The databases currently included are from the law commissions of Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Papua New Guinea and England