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Supreme Court of Jamaica

The official website of the Supreme Court of Jamaica provides court listings, a judgments database (mainly cases from 1997 onwards), forms, court rules, practice directions, the Judicature (Supreme Court) Act and the Jamaica Sentencing Guidelines. It also has statistics, news and other information.

Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago

This is the official parliament website of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It provides background information about the House of Representatives and Senate and their committees, together with news and publications. Hansard is available from 1990 onwards and acts from 1999 onwards. The current and previous constitutions of Trinidad and Tobago are also on the site, and there is information about the progress of current bills.

LAWS Database of the Project Volterra

Database compiled by a research project at the History Department of University College London, examining Roman legislation in a broad context. Contains Roman legislative texts, ancient interpretation of them and references to modern legal and historical commentary on them. The database is arranged in two parts, Law and Empire AD 193- 455 and Law and the End of Empire.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette

Free online version of the official gazette of Hong Kong, in English and Chinese. The Hong Kong Gazette publishes ordinances, regulations, bills, tenders and official notices. Both the main Gazette and its supplements are available and can be browsed by date or searched by key word. The Gazette is produced by the Printing Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.

Chinalawinfo

Chinalawinfo is a subscription database providing Chinese legal information and materials translated into English. The service has been developed by the Legal Information Center at the Peking University Law School. Parts of the website can be accessed freely including Basic Laws which are laws adopted by the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee prior to January 1, 2006. An outline of the Chinese legal system, white papers and legal news stories are also made freely available.

beSpacific

beSpacific is a law and technology blog by Sabrina I. Pacifici, a law librarian and co-founder of the legal web journal LLRX.com. Focusing on the United States, it consists of more than 45,000 posts on subjects such as official documents, legislation, privacy, cyber-security, civil liberties, legal research, legal technology, intellectual property, the environment, the economy, the financial system, education, AI, journalism and knowledge management. The archive goes back to September 2002. beSpacific is intended for legal professionals, librarians and researchers.

Religlaw

The Religlaw website is maintained by the Brigham Young University International Center for Law and Religion Studies in Utah. There are links to religion and law news stories, guides to religious freedom and frameworks for law and religion in different jurisdictions.

Regulations.gov

Regulations.gov allows US citizens to access and comment upon every final and proposed regulation currently open for consideration in the US government legal newspaper 'The Federal Register'. These cover all aspects of economic, social and political legislation. It is possible to search by document type (such as public submissions, notices or rules), date, agency and docket type. Each entry gives a link to the text of the regulation and submitted comments can be read. Documents can be viewed in full text PDF or HTML.

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