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Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute

The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) provides free internet access to legislation and cases for jurisdictions in the South Pacific. Islands covered by the service include American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. A site search form allows specific database selection and query with boolean functionality.

Unified Courts of Guam

Official website of the Judiciary of Guam. The site provides organisational information, rules and regulations and annual reports for the Guam courts along with information relating to the Supreme Court and the Superior Court. Access to profiles of the judges and copies of their speeches are also available. There are copies of court rules, promulgation orders and full-text (PDF) opinions from 1996 onwards. A page of links to other Guam legal resources is also given.

Guam Bar Association

Website of the Guam Bar Association- the organisation with responsibility for regulating the practice of law in Guam. The site gives details of officers and committees of the Bar and there is a searchable directory of members and lawyer referral service. Rules and by-laws of the Guam Bar can be viewed in full on the site along with links to other Guam legal websites.

Guam Legislature

Official website of the Guam Legislature. Guam is a Pacific Island which forms an unincorporated territory of the United States. The site provides details of standing committees, a legislative calendar and contact details for members of the Guam Senate. Access is given to Guam public laws which can be viewed in HTML or as zipped Word files. Laws are available from the 24th Guam Legislature (1997) onwards although not all are available in full. Bills are also available on the site along with legislative and executive resolutions.

Office of the Compiler of Laws

Website of the Office of the Compiler of Laws in Guam. Guam is a Pacific Island which forms an unincorporated territory of the United States. The Compiler of Laws is a division of the Attorney General's Office and the site is currently under development. It aims to provide free access to Guam statutes, laws, court decisions, agency rules and regulations, Executive Orders issued by the Governor, and opinions of the Attorney General. Currently available on the site is a full-text copy of the Guam Code Annotated and full-text (PDF) opinions of the Supreme Court from 1996 onwards.

Pacific Islands Treaty Series

A Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) resource containing bilateral and multilateral treaties affecting Pacific Island countries and last updated in 2009. The interface is available in English or French. Under "Other Resources", there is background information about each country and details of treaty-making procedures, along with a glossary of treaty terms. PacLII is a joint initiative involving the University of the South Pacific and the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

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