 |
|
|
Last updated 27 November 2003
|
|
| 8:00am | Registration |
| Opening Plenary Session (27 November 2003) | |
| Chair: Graham Greenleaf | |
| 9:00am | Professor David Barker (Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney) - Welcome to the Conference |
| 9:15am | The Hon A M Gleeson AC (Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia) - Opening of Conference and Launch of the Complete High Court of Australia Decisions Database 1903-2003 |
| 9:30am | Daniel Poulin (LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada) - Open Access to Law in Developing Countries |
| Parallel Session 1A | Global Law Systems on the Internet: Language, Culture, Cooperation |
| Chair: Andrew Mowbray | |
| 10:00am | Pierre-Paul Lemyre, Bobson Coulibaly and Francois Viens (LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada) - Droit Francophone and Access to Law in the French-speaking World: A Renewed Strategy |
| 10:25am | Graham Greenleaf, Andrew Mowbray and Philip Chung (AustLII) - WorldLII's 5 Strategies to Advance Global Free Access |
| 10:50am | Morning Tea |
| 11:15am | Kevin K H Pun and Vivien Chan (HKLII, University of Hong Kong) - Processing Legal Documents in the Chinese-speaking World: HKLII's Experience |
| 11:40am | Abdul Paliwala (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) - Law and the Digital Divide |
| Parallel Session 1B | Developing Countries Law Online: The Pacific |
| Chair: Philip Chung | |
| 12:05pm | Dennis Yamase (Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia) - The Law of the Federated States of Micronesia: How to Sustain It? |
| 12:30pm | Panel Session - New Zealand and New Guinea: Problem Cases of the Pacific? (Chair: Donna Buckingham; Geoff Lawn; Katrine Evans; Tim Arnold-Moore; Graham Greenleaf; Robynne Blake) |
| 12:55pm | Lunch |
| Parallel Session 1C | Developing Countries Law Online: Asia |
| Chair: Daniel Poulin | |
| 2:00pm | Daniel Adler (Cambodian Legal Education Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) - Access to Legal Information in Cambodia: Initial Steps, Future Possibilities |
| 2:25pm | Leo Faraytody (Hukumonline, Indonesia) - Hukumonline and Indonesian Developments |
| 2:50pm | Makoto Ibusuki (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) - Possibility of Translated Legal Database for Asian Countries |
| 3:15pm | Afternoon Tea |
| Parallel Session 1D | Developing Countries Law Online: Africa |
| Chair: Abdul Paliwala | |
| 3:35pm | John Montgomery (WITS University, South Africa) - Prospects for a Southern African Legal Information Institute |
| 4:00pm | Bobson Coulibaly and Pierre-Paul Lemyre (LexUM, University of Montreal, Canada) - JuriBurkina: The Implementation of a LII in Burkina Faso |
| 4:25pm | Omwanza Ombati (Ahmednasir Abdikadir & Co, Kenya) - Access to Legal Information: Still a Pipe Dream for Kenya? |
| Parallel Session 1E | IP and Other Legal Issues in Access to Law |
| Chair: Trevor Roydhouse | |
| 4:50pm | Matthew Hall (Phillips Fox) - Legal Information and the Review of the Digital Agenda Act |
| 5:15pm | Pearl Rozenberg (Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Sydney) - Web Site Access: Can Owners of Sites Control How Others Use the Site? |
| 5:40pm | Close Day 1 Sessions |
| 7:00pm | Dinner - Skyline Terrace, Sydney Exhibition & Convention Centre, Darling Harbour |
| Parallel Session 2A | Commercial Legal Publishing on the Web: Difficulties and Opportunities |
| Chair: Philip Chung | |
| 10:00am | Murray Finlayson (CCH) - Commercial Publishing via the Web: Survival or Maturity? |
| Parallel Session 2B | Courts via Internet: Access and Efficiency |
| Chair: Andrew Cannon | |
| 10:25am | Arthur Hoyle (University of Canberra) - National Court of the Future Project |
| 10:50am | Morning Tea |
| 11:15am | Tony Newman SM (South Australian Courts) - Magistrates Benchbook: The Use of Intranet to Access Frequently Used Information |
| 11:40am | Sandra Potter (Sir Zelman Cowen Centre for CLE, Victoria University) - Use of the Internet in the Courtroom |
| 12:05pm | Andrew Cannon (Magistrates Court, South Australia) - Policies to Control Electronic Access to Court Databases |
| 12:30pm | Frederic Pelletier (LexUM, CanLII, Canada) - Protecting Identities in Published Case Law: A Canadian Approach |
| 12:55pm | Lunch |
| Parallel Session 2C | Knowledge-based Legal Applications |
| Chair: Russell Allen | |
| 2:00pm | Andrew Stranieri (JustSys Pty Ltd) - Integrating Intelligent Systems for Refugee Law |
| 2:25pm | Kate Booth and Elizabeth Broderick (Blake Dawson Waldron) - Web-based Legal Expert Systems: Virtual Lawyers |
| 2:50pm | Andrew Davis and Jamie Wodetzki (Speedlegal) - A Smarter Way to Draft Documents |
| 3:15pm | Afternoon Tea |
| Parallel Session 2D | Law Office Internet Applications |
| Chair: Armin Wittfoth | |
| 3:35pm | Damien Piper (Gilbert & Tobin) - Do Weblogs have a Place in Legal Practice? |
| 4:00pm | Chrissy Burns (Blake Dawson Waldron) - What do Clients Want from Knowledge Management? |
| 4:25pm | Kathryn Waugh (Jerrard & Stuk Lawyers) - Six Degrees of Separation: Creating a Knowledge Bank of Useful Internet Resources |
| 4:50pm | Michael Marks (Secure Deal eXchange) - A Lawyer's Mission: To Maximise Client Satisfaction and Legal Efficiency - But is Email Good Enough? |
| 5:15pm | Close Day 1 Sessions |
| 7:00pm | Dinner - Skyline Terrace, Sydney Exhibition & Convention Centre, Darling Harbour |
| Plenary Session (28 November 2003) | |
| Chair: Andrew Mowbray | |
| 9:00am | Justice Ruth McColl (New South Wales Court of Appeal) - IT in the Courtroom from Both Sides of the Bench |
| 9:30am | Tim Arnold-Moore (RMIT) - XML and Legislation |
| Parallel Session 3A | Improving Caselaw and Retrieval Techniques |
| Chair: Graham Greenleaf | |
| 10:00am | Ernst Perpignand (LexUM, CanLII, Canada) - Devising an XML DTD for Canadian Cases |
| 10:25am | Andrew Mowbray and Philip Chung (AustLII) - AustLII and WorldLII's Automated Search Facilities |
| 10:50am | Morning Tea |
| 11:15am | Marc-Andre Morissette (LexUM, CanLII, Canada) - Using Advances in Information Retrieval to Reduce Information Overload |
| Parallel Session 3B | Improving Legislation Online (1) |
| Chair: Tim Arnold-Moore | |
| 11:40am | Geoff Lawn (Office of Parliamentary Counsel, New Zealand) - Improving Public Access to Legislation: The New Zealand Experience |
| 12:05pm | Armin Wittfoth, Philip Chung, Graham Greenleaf and Andrew Mowbray (AustLII) - Can One Size Fit All: AustLII's Point-in-time Legislation Project? |
| 12:30pm | Lunch - East Ocean Seafood Restaurant, Chinatown |
| Parallel Session 3C | Improving Legislation Online (2) |
| Chair: Michael Rubacki | |
| 2:00pm | Peter Todd (Department of Natural Resources & Mines, Queensland) - Synchronising Law and Maps: A Web Based Solution |
| 2:25pm | Panel Session - What Next in Online Legislation? (Chair: Michael Rubacki (NSW PCO); Geoff Lawn (NZ), Tim Arnold-Moore (RMIT)) |
| Parallel Session 3D | International & Comparative Law Online Resources |
| Chair: Philip Chung | |
| 2:50pm | Alan Fewster (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), Madeleine Davis, Philip Chung, Graham Greenleaf and Joseph Kwok (AustLII) - The Australian Treaties Library 1901-2003: The '5th Pillar' of Treaties Reform |
| 3:15pm | Takato Natsui (Faculty of Law, Meiji University, Japan) - Issues Arising from Free Access to Legal Information: A Japanese Perspective |
| 3:40pm | Afternoon Tea |
| 4:00pm | Closing Plenary Session - The Hon JJ Spigelman AC (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW) - The Role of Internet Publication of Court Decisions in Open Justice |
| Chair: Graham Greenleaf | |
| 5:00pm | Close Day 2 Sessions |
| Parallel Session 4A | Legal Education via Internet |
| Chair: Madeleine Davis | |
| 10:00am | Bill Willesee (Curtin University) - Can a Computer Grade an Internet Uploaded Law Essay? [Short] |
| 10:20am | Cristina Libro and Katherine Mulcahy (College of Law, Sydney) - Producing Competent Lawyers: Merging Education Technology with Web Based Resources [Short] |
| 10:40am | Morning Tea |
| 11:05am | Pearl Rozenberg (Faculty of Economics and Commerce, University of Sydney) - Teaching Using Online Legal Resources: Accessing or Creating the Needed Online Resources [Short] |
| 11:25am | Tim Houweling (Edith Cowan University) - How the Internet has Changed the Way Law is Taught [Short] |
| 11:45am | Terry Hutchinson and Natalie Cuffe (Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology) - Web Based Project Management for Research Students in Law [Short] |
| Parallel Session 4B | Finding the Law: Catalogs, Pathways, and Evaluations |
| Chair: Takao Hasuike | |
| 12:05pm | Benny Tai (Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong) - LawOf: The Development of an Open Online Legal Index |
| 12:30pm | Lunch - East Ocean Seafood Restaurant, Chinatown |
| 2:00pm | Sue Walden (Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), State Library of NSW) - The LIAC Pathway: A Methodology for Developing Understanding about the Law |
| 2:25pm | Colin Fong (ATAX, UNSW) - Assessing Free Legal Websites: The Good, the Not So Good and the Doable |
| Parallel Session 4C | Social Impact of Access to Legal Information |
| Chair: Armin Wittfoth | |
| 2:50pm | Lorna McKenzie, Suzanne Crowle, Don Jones, Jamie Murray and Douglas Jordan (Office of Industrial Relations, NSW) - Check Your Pay: Online Assistance in Award Calculations |
| 3:15pm | Friedrich Schwank (Austria) - CyberDOC and e-Government: Electronic Archive of Austrian Notaries |
| 3:40pm | Afternoon Tea |
