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Corporate and Insolvency Law Policy Directorate

Web page describing the law reform initiatives of Canada's Corporate and Insolvency Law Policy Directorate (CILPD), which is responsible for reviewing Canada's business and insolvency laws, regulations and policies. The CILPD forms part of the Marketplace Framework Policy Branch of Industry Canada. The site publishes a number of consultation documents, questionnaires and background research documents on subjects such as bankruptcy and insolvency law, corporate not-for-profit law and Canada's law on cooperatives. A list of the legislation currently under review is published.

Drafting Legal Documents

A guide to legal writing, from the Office of the Federal Register, US National Archives and Records Administration. The guide is a sequence of linked topics on the basics of writing regulatory documents which include arrangement, headings, definitions, ambiguity, principles of clear writing and grammar. In addition, the site presents some links to plain language resources and a PDF copy of the Federal Register Document Drafting Handbook 1998 with amendments.

Maine State Legislature. Office of the Revisor of Statutes

The Office of the Revisor of Statutes of Maine State Legislature is responsible for the drafting and editing of legislation for the state of Maine in the United States. The Revisor's Office also maintains a database of statutes, and publishes the statutes online. This site publishes two documents: the Revisor's Report which details non-substantive changes to the database of statutes (e.g.

Canon Law

Article on canon law, as published in the Catholic Encyclopedia online, made available on the New Advent website. The article was written by A. Boudinhon, and transcribed by David DeWolf. It discusses the differences between canon law and ecclesiastical law, and describes the sources and divisions of the body of laws of the Christian Church. It outlines the historical development of collections of canon law texts from the early Christian Church to modern times, and describes the different types of text (bulls, briefs, concordats, etc).

Tasmanian Legislation

Website offering free public access to Tasmania's Consolidated Legislation Online. The project is managed by the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Tasmania, and aims to improve the availability of the full-text of the legislation. The site publishes Acts consolidated to 1st February 1997 and new legislation since then, as well as statutory rules from the beginning of 1998. Users are offered plenty of guidance, help and background information to help them to differentiate between the sessional and historical versions of the legislation.

NetRegs

NetRegs aims to provide practical assistance to managers of small or medium sized businesses in Scotland and Northern Ireland to help them comply with their environmental responsibilities. Produced jointly by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, it is designed specifically to help clarify and simplify the environmental legislation affecting manufacturing and service sector operations. The site provides guidance by environmental topic or business type. 

World Law: Bermuda

Section of WorldLII's World Law service covering Bermuda, a British overseas territory in the Western Atlantic. The site provides links to governmental, legislation and case law sites along with resources focusing on banking and finance, company, taxation and money laundering law.offers A stored search will automatically search for materials relating to Bermuda on all of World Law. This section of WorldLII was developed from work initiated by Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

World Law: Falkland Islands

Links to legal materials and law related internet resources for the Falkland Islands (an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic) presented on WorldLII's World Law service. A saved search automatically queries all of World Law for materials relating to the Falkand Islands. This section of WorldLII was developed from work initiated by Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

World Law: Greenland

Part of WorldLII's World Law service containing links to internet resources covering Greenland, the self-governing province of Denmark. Links are given to government and inter-government sites and to materials relating to indigenous peoples. A stored search will automatically query all of World Law for items about Greenland. This section of WorldLII was developed from work initiated by Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

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