LawNet2 by Signapore Academy of Law

LawNet2 by Signapore Academy of Law

http://www.lawnet.com.sg/

The HOME page is the "Legal Workbench Components"


Here is the contents from the first section:

Legal Research

Legal Research is an integrated environment that allows you to search different types of legal content and multiple sources at a single go.

It provides an efficient and comprehensive research experience across the following areas:

Singapore Case Law:
Contains the Singapore Law Reports, Judgments, Tribunal/Board Decisions of Singapore, The Heritage Law Reports and more.

Malaysia Case Law Contains the Malayan Law Journal (MLJ) from 1932. The MLJ is the only local series of law reports to be published continuously since 1932, except during the war years. It includes cases from Singapore prior to full independence in 1965, as well as from the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Malayan Union and Federation of Malaya. The Malayan Law Journal currently reports judgments of the Malaysian Federal Court, Court of Appeal and High Courts; the Brunei Court of Appeal and High Court, and appeals from Brunei to the Privy Council. PDF format is available for MLJ cases from 2006 onwards.

English Case Law Contains the complete archive of judgments and PDF's of the Law Reports and the Weekly Law Reports from 1865 onwards, as provided directly by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales under licence from Eastern Book Company. More information can be found here.

Reference Material :
A stable of secondary legal materials is available, including Singapore and Malaysia's leading academic legal journals, legal updates from leading Singapore and Malaysian law firms, and a variety of textbooks such as Court Practice Manuals for Civil Procedure and Sentencing Practice in the Subordinate Courts of Singapore. More information can be found here.

Singapore Legislation:
Provided by the Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore, the Legal Workbench hosts Singapore's only versioned legislation database, which captures all versions of statutes, subsidiary legislation and selected Government Gazette supplements created after 1 January 1997.

Singapore Parliamentary Reports:
A service of the Parliament of Singapore, the Singapore Parliament Reports System makes available in full-text format the official reports of debates (commonly known as Hansard) in the Legislative Assembly of the Colony and later the State of Singapore, and the present Parliament of Singapore, as well as sessional and select committee reports, from 1955.

Singapore Treaties:
The Singapore Treaties Database, maintained by the Attorney-General's Chambers, contains records of treaties to which Singapore is a party, including exchanges of letters, memoranda of understanding, and other agreements regarded as treaties under international law. Key treaties are available in full-text format.


What is New in LawNet2 ?

As compared to the previous version of LAWNET, LawNet2 now have the following enhancements:

Advanced search

Boolean Searches
And, Or, Not

Proximity Operators
introduction W/3 judgment

Wildcard (? for one letter * for any numbers of letter)
Appl? : E.g. Apply, Apple
Appl* : E.g. Applcation, Applications. Applies, Apples!

Combination search, for example:
interlocutory w/3 judg* and jurisdiction?


Fuzzy Search (%)
% for the letter or the missing letter
Judg%ment
Judgement or Judgment

Advance Search (Cases Tab)

• Research using Field Search terms

Reference Trace

• Legislation Reference Trace
• Case Reference Trace

Upcoming Plan for LawNet

English Case Law Contents

Quicker Performance Time
More Effective Citation Searches
Synopsis in Search Results

Indian Supreme Court Cases
1950-current
Tageted First Quarter 2009

Other Jurisdictions
Austraila (Australia Reports and Commonwealth Reports)
New Zealand
Canada
Strategy Underwway

Singapor law Reports Reissue

Reheadnoting the backset (1965-2003)

• Pinpoint Paragraphs
• Additional 50 Cases

Currently headnotes for Pdf and onscreeen HTML headnotes differ

Targeted Release: First Half 2010