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BAILII – Towards a National Law Library?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2007

Philip Leith
Affiliation:
The Law School, Queen's University of Belfast

Abstract

Philip Leith, who is a trustee of BAILII, explains its origins in the Society for Computers and Law's suggestion that the government should build a computerised database of English law, to its role today as a major free resource for legal information. He discusses the Australian model, AustLII; describes the current database and considers the interaction between legal publishers and addedvalue and free legal sources both now and in the future.

Type
Articles
Copyright
2007 The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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