A legal research guide for Asia and the Pacific region, created by the library at the University of Sydney. Includes regional legal information as well as covering twenty-five individual jurisdictions. For each jurisdiction, there are annotated links to sources of legislation and cases, information about the legal system, information relating to international law (such as participation in treaties), and links to research guides.
Electronic copy of the 1962 Constitution of Samoa made freely available online by the Comparative Constitutions Project at the University of Texas at Austin. The Constitution is provided in PDF and is amended up to 2013. There are chapters on fundamental rights, the role of the head of state and the executive, legislative and judicial powers.
Website of the Samoa Legal Information Institute (SamLII), which was set up to provide free access to Samoan primary legal materials. Full-text judgments from the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, Family Court and other courts are provided along with selected Samoan legislation and court rules. The site is administered by American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative and supported by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).
Forming part of the PACLII database, this webpage provides sources of Samoan legal materials and information, including unofficial versions of Consolidated Acts of Samoa 2016, a diagram of the court structure, rules of court, New Zealand legislation which may apply in Samoa, cases from many different Samoan courts, selected Western Samoa Law Reports (1921 – 1993), selected unreported judgements from Western Samoa (1995 – 1996) and some historical documents. The content is searchable or browseable
Forming part of the PACLII website, this webpage gives access to electronic versions of selected decisions from the District Court of Samoa, from 1999 through to 2006, and updated on a yearly basis. Cases can be browsed both alphabetically and by year. Alternatively, the database search option can be selected, which will allow searching across the entire dataset.
The official website of the Parliament of Samoa. Clear explanations of legislative history and current legislative structure and operation. Contains full text of the Samoan constitution in English, and clear links to the full text of other important Samoan acts. There are also separate lists of both acts & ordinances, and regulations, which can be browsed by year, and which are available in both Samoan and English, dating back to 1908.
A PacLII database containing legislation from 2023 Consolidation of Laws of Samoa. Acts can be browsed by title, and there is a search facility. PacLII, the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, offers free access to legislation and cases for jurisdictions in the South Pacific. It is a joint initiative involving the University of the South Pacific and the Australasian Legal Information Institute.
A PacLII database containing decisions of the Court of Appeal of Samoa from 1982 onwards. Cases can be browsed by name or year, and there is a search facility. PacLII, the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, provides free access to legislation and cases for jurisdictions in the South Pacific. It is a joint initiative involving the University of the South Pacific and the Australasian Legal Information Institute.
A PacLII database containing decisions of the Supreme Court of Samoa from 1980 onwards. Cases can be browsed by name or year, and there is a search facility. PacLII, the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, provides free access to legislation and cases for jurisdictions in the South Pacific. It is a joint initiative involving the University of the South Pacific and the Australasian Legal Information Institute.
Online guide to South Pacific law written by Peter Murgatroyd who is Information Resource Centre Manager at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Coordinator of the Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN). The guide was published in 2006 (and updated in 2022) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law.
