Legal Research

European E-Justice Portal

By Simon Fodden

The European Community has placed a new online front end on its law-related offerings, aiming to make it easier to find what you want amid the welter of languages, systems, and regulations. The recently launched European e-Justice Portal contains sections directed at the public, businesses, the legal profession, and the judiciary. Within the Legal Profession section are the following resources:

• Law – providing general information and links with respect to the laws of the union, member states, and international treaties
• Case law – offering links to databases containing judgments for these various jurisdictions (and notably lacking any references to WorldLII or BAILii)
• Legal professions and judicial systems – containing pretty much an overview for the various jurisdictions involved
• Justice Forum – which “organises thematic meetings during which the representatives of the member-organisations express their views on newly proposed and existing justice policy initiatives and legislative instruments”
• Judicial systems – providing, again, general information
• Registers – offering information and links with respect to business, land, and insolvency registers
• Videoconferencing – supplying information for those who might want to use videoconferencing in legal discussions or proceedings for efficiency’s sake.

[hat tip: @richards1000]

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on July 17, 2010 (boomark / email).