Law via the Internet '99

2nd AustLII Conference on
Computerisation of Law via the Internet

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 21-23 July 1999

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Conference Programme

Conference Co-Chairs - Graham Greenleaf & Andrew Mowbray (Co-Directors, AustLII)

Conference Day 1 - Thursday 22 July

7:45 Registration and coffee

Plenary Session 1 (Chair, Graham Greenleaf)

8:30 Conference Welcome - Professor David Barker (Dean of Law, UTS), Professor Paul Redmond (Dean of Law, UNSW), and Conference Co-Chairs

8:45 Opening Address - Justice Michael Kirby (High Court of Australia) The importance of public access to the law, and the role of the Internet

9:30 Tom Bruce (Co-Director, Cornell Legal Information Institute, USA) The future for public legal information

10:00 Victor Perton MP (Victorian Parliament) Victoria's Proposals for a 21st Century Legal System

10:30 Morning tea

Plenary Session 2 (Chair, Andrew Mowbray)

11:00 Daniel Poulin (LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada) Canada's approach to standards for law on the web

11:30 Surend Dayal and Peter Johnson (SoftLaw Corporation, Australia) A web-based revolution in Australian public administration?

12:00 Bob Hughes (Dean, Faculty of Law, University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu) Putting the law of the South Pacific states on the net

12:30 Philip Chung (AustLII) A defence of plain HTML for law - AustLII's approach to standards

1:00 Lunch - Light lunch at the Conference venue will be provided

Parallel Session 1A - Large scale law resources (Chair, Andrew Mowbray)

2:00 Ian Brightwell & Richard Dixon Hughes (DH4 Pty Ltd, NSW) Computerised legislative drafting and access to statutes

2:30 Mark Burdack (NSW Attorney-General's Department) Automated publication of judicial decisions in New South Wales

3:00 Daniel Austin and Andrew Mowbray (AustLII) Scalability of web resources for law

3:30 Afternoon tea

Parallel Session 1B- Teaching law via the web (Chair, Graham Greenleaf)

2:00 Donna Buckingham (University of Otago, NZ) Boundary Riding Law Students - The Web As Corral

2:20 Dan Hunter (University of Melbourne, Vic) Legal teaching and learning over the web

2:40 Panel session on teaching law via the web including Liz Bartlett (Southern Cross), Petal Kinder (Monash), Tom Bruce (Cornell LII), Abdul Paliwala (CTI, Warwick), Pearl Rozenberg (U. Sydney) and session speakers

3:30 Afternoon Tea

Parallel Session 2A- Knowledge-based systems meet the web(Chair, Philip Chung)

4:00 Paulo Quaresma and Irene Pimenta Rodrigues (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) PGR: A Cooperative Legal IR System on the Web

4:30 Russell Allen (AustLII) Collaborative legal inferencing via the web

5:00 Leon Sterling (University of Melbourne) JUSTICE on the web: A Judicial Search Tool Using Intelligent Concept Extraction

5:30 Tunde Meikle (University of Ballarat) A decision support architecture in the domain of refugee law

6:00 Close of Day 1 sessions

Parallel Session 2B- Academic publishing, and evaluating law on the web (Chair, Graham Greenleaf)

4:00 Bruce Kercher (Macquarie University) Where the future meets the past: Pre-1900 NSW case law on the web

4:30 Sean Doran (Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland) Developing an Interactive Legal Journal on the Internet - International Commentary on Evidence (ICE)

5:00 Colin Fong (ATAX, UNSW) and Terry Hutchinson (Faculty of Law, QUT) Evaluating legal research guides on the Net

5:30 Alan Robinson (LegIT Productions, NSW) Creating a safety net-Ratingthe quality of law web sites

6:00 Close of Day 1 sessions

Parallel Session 2C- Litigation and legal practice in cyberspace(Chair, Andrew Mowbray)

4:00 James Wilson (Ringtail Solutions, Vic) Cyber courts and the Longford Royal Commission on the web

4:30 Panel session on litigation support systems including Damien Adams (Diskcovery, Vic), Carol Ball (Auscript), Alison Stanfield (eLaw, NSW) and session speakers

5:00 Panel session on legal practice via the web including Alan Schwartz (Anstat, Vic), Peter Janssen (LegalMart, Qld), Dr F Schwank (Vienna, Austria)

5:30 Panel session on industrial law on the web including John Golden (Australian Business), Peter O'Rourke (Queensland Industrial Registrar's Office)

6:00 Close of Day 1 sessions

Conference Dinner

7:30 - 10:30 Conference Dinner, Hotel Nikko, Darling Harbour - informal buffet dinner, including wine

Conference Day 2 - Friday 23 July

Plenary Session 3 (Chair, Graham Greenleaf)

8:30 Jane Clemes (Department of Premier and Cabinet, Tasmania) and Timothy Arnold-Moore (Multimedia Database Systems, RMIT) Connectedto the Law: Tasmanian legislation using EnAct

9:00 Judge David Harvey (District Court of New Zealand) A judicial perspective on public access to case law

9:30 Bruce Mcleod (Spirit Networks, Canberra ) Information overload equals pattern recognition - Making public access to SCALEplus more user friendly

10:00 Abdul Paliwala (CTI Law Technology Centre and Law Courseware Consortium, Warwick, UK) Awful and less awful ways of doing distance learning: roles for the web

10:30 Morning Tea

Plenary Session 4 (Chair, Andrew Mowbray)

11:00 Mayee Warren (Auscript) Putting the electronic courtroom online: The internet or the secured private network?

11:30 Evan Predavec (Butterworths Online, Australia) Re-inventing commercial legal publishing for the web

12:00 Lyonette Louis-Jacques (University of Chicago Law School, USA) How easy can we make world-wide legal research on the web?

12:30 Graham Greenleaf (AustLII) Solving the problems of finding law on the web: World Law and DIAL

1:00 Lunch - Kam Fook Sharks Fin Seafood Restaurant, Market City

Parallel Session 3A- Standards for legal information on the web(Chair, Andrew Mowbray)

2:30 Francis Johns, (LEXIS Marketing Manager, Australia) Citator Wars - Tracing the golden web online: the US experience

2:50 Alison Stanfield (eLaw, NSW) Standards for law on the web - citations, metadata and more

3:10 Pearl Rozenberg (University of Sydney) Referencing and citation of electronic resources - the truth is out there

3:30 Panel session on standards including Simon Rice (Law Foundation of NSW, Panel Chair), Daniel Poulin, Philip Chung and session speakers

Parallel Session 3B- Public access policies (Chair, Graham Greenleaf)

2:30 Tom McMahon (Department of Justice, Canada) Public Policy Issues in Electronic Access to the Law in Canada

3:00 Jane Treadwell, (KnowWhere Ltd, NZ) Free access to law on the net: The strange case of New Zealand

3:30 Panel session on public legal information including David Grainger (SCALEplus, Panel Chair), Tom Bruce, Daniel Poulin, Abdul Paliwala, Graham Greenleaf and session speakers

4:00 Afternoon tea

Parallel Session 4A- Community access to legal information (Chair, Andrew Mowbray)

4:20 - 6:00 This session will be a series of short presentations by the following speakers, concluding with a panel discussion in the time remaining

Sue Scott (Law Foundation of NSW) Delivering legal information to the community via the web: research into users and pathways

Madeleine Davis (AustLII) AustLII's role in community legal information

Rebecca Neil (National Children's and Youth Law Centre)The future for legal service provision to children and young people through the internet: The LawMail pilot project

Siobhan McCann (AustLII) Indigenous communities, the law and the internet

Paul Kaufman (Law4U, Vic) Why people prefer Grisham to Gleeson

Elizabeth McKibben (Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW) International perspectives on access to community legal information

6:00 Conference close

Parallel Session 4B- Asia-Pacific law on the web (Chair, Graham Greenleaf)

4:20 Dr. Makoto Ibusuki (Kagoshima University, Japan) Japanese law on the Internet: the reality and possibility

4:40 Leon Wolff (Australian National University, Canberra) Japanese Law on the Internet

5:00 Val Haynes (NiuMedia Pacific Pty Ltd and University of Tasmania) Computerising the law of Papua New Guinea

5:20 Panel Session on Asia-Pacific Law on the Web including David Mason (Director, Treaties Secretariat, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), Rachel Romana and Emmanuel Caparas (CD Asia, Philippines), Judge David Harvey (District Court of New Zealand), Bob Hughes (USP, Vanuatu), and session speakers

6:00 Conference close