The Gender and Land Rights database is maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization. It offers free access to statistics and information on social, economic, political and cultural issues related to gender inequality and land rights worldwide.
Legislation.gov.uk website is hosted by the National Archives on behalf of the UK Government. It is a free official site providing all legislation from 1988 onwards and most legislation prior to 1988 (apart from secondary legislation). N.B. Many revised versions of acts are offered, but these are often not up-to-date. The content can be browsed by type (e.g. UK Public General Acts, Scottish Statutory Instruments), or searched by title, year, type or number. Users can go directly to sections for United Kingdom, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland legislation.
The Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII), founded in 1992, provides free access to US federal and state legal material, including US Supreme Court decisions, decisions of the US Courts of Appeals and other federal courts, the US Constitution, the United States Code, state constitutions and statutes (via links to state websites), and state regulations. Secondary materials on the site include 'Wex', an open access legal dictionary and encyclopedia, and the 'Introduction to Basic Legal Citation' by Peter W. Martin.
A collection of key acts establishing and developing the structure of the judiciary and the authority of the Federal Courts in the United States of America. The site has been compiled by the Federal Judicial History Office at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington DC. A browse screen presents a timeline listing of the legislative measures with links to the relevant documents made freely available in HTML format. Materials include article III from the US Constitution and 21 statutes of historical significance. The online texts are taken as published from United States Statutes at Large.
Online version of the Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 1999, made freely available on the website of the International Centre for Nigerian Law. The Constitution is provided in HTML and includes a table of contents with links to individual sections of the document.
Website publishing judicial information and legal materials relating to the law of Nigeria. The site was set up by the International Centre for Nigerian Law, in association with the chambers of E.C.M. Obata. It carries the texts of the Nigerian Constitution, selected legislation (1990-2006, if still in force) and an index of laws from 1990 to 2000. The Law Reporting page carries judgments of the Supreme Court from 1909 onwards (incomplete). General information is provided about the Supreme Court, high courts and Court of Appeal.
This is one section of a page of the Legal Information Institute internet gateway which is part of Cornell Law School in New York State. There is an alphabetical list of the individual states of the United States with links through to the state legislature websites. These in most cases have the full-text of the state statutes from the late 1990s onwards, relating to family law which covers children, marital and domestic relations, as well as other subject areas.
This site forms part of the Legal Information Institute Internet gateway based at Cornell Law School in New York State. The uniform matrimonial and family laws locator is one of five subject locators on the site. It covers United States state laws which correspond to uniform laws in the subject areas of matrimony and the family. There is an alphabetical list of these uniform laws, each entry having a list of the states to which that law applies and links to the full-text where it is available.
An online directory containing status information and links to legislation providing for sex offender registration and community notification in each of the US states, known as "Megan's Law" legislation. A map indicates the level of Internet access to records provided by the state authorities, ranging from state sponsored access to no community notification. Directory entries include information about the state contact, administrating agency, duration of requirement, penalties for non-compliance and confidentiality provisions with links to relevant websites and online documents.
Part two of a policy paper ("white paper") published by the UK Government in December 2000. Gives details of special arrangements for the small minority who pose a threat to others. Arrangements for assessment, for compulsory treatment, and the role of the new Mental Health Tribunals are described. The first part, "The new legal framework" [q.v.] deals with the proposed restructuring of the law for all mental health patients.
