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Court Information on the Internet

Court Information on the Internet. Dougal McKechnie Department for Courts, New Zealand. Introduction. Background Context for the research Observations A vision for New Zealand Publishing legal information and the impact of the internet. Background - www.courts.govt.nz.

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Court Information on the Internet

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  1. Court Information on the Internet Dougal McKechnie Department for Courts, New Zealand

  2. Introduction • Background • Context for the research • Observations • A vision for New Zealand • Publishing legal information and the impact of the internet

  3. Background - www.courts.govt.nz • Originally launched in 1996 • Information for jurors • Administrative and structural arrangements of the Department and Courts • Very basic presentation • Limited hit rate • Re-launched in 2000 as the Courts of New Zealand Internet site

  4. Context for the research • Justice sector alignment • The Modernisation Programme • Access to justice • Internet use by other agencies • eGovernment Strategy

  5. Observations • Availability of funding • Efficiency of the underlying processes • Legal XML is on the radar • Guidance and process advice • Lack of integration • The publishing role • Ramifications not always considered or anticipated

  6. A vision for New Zealand • Common metadata and classification • Joined up government • Legal advice and dispute pre-emption • Courts to be active in standards development • Align procedural and legislative change with the implementation of technology • All development must enhance the integrity of the judiciary and the court system

  7. Criticisms of publishing • Speed in publishing • Selectivity • Cost and availability • Poor standard of legal information in the mass media • The required level of skill to identify, locate, access and navigate legal information

  8. Publishing • The role of publishers was traditionally ‘adding value’ - what does this mean now? • Metadata and common standards will increasingly provide the value • Technology developments will allow end users to cut out intermediaries • Are publishers in the traditional sense an intermediary?

  9. The NZ legal publishing market • Small size of the market • Dominated by two companies • Strong competition • US driven for strategy • Regionally driven for technical and marketing • Global at the expense of Local?

  10. Questions?

  11. Further Information • The research report is available from http://www.courts.govt.nz/publications/mckechnie.html • American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) - examples of best legal internet sites: http://www.aallnet.org/committee/aelic/bestsites.html

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