Legislation

Mental Health Law Online

Mental Health Online is a free portal website providing an internet resource on mental health law, and mental capacity law, for England & Wales. The site provides links to case law, legislation and general information on mental health; as well as producing an Annual Review which contains all news items, arranged thematically, which were added to the website during that year

Danish Patent and Trademark Office

The Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO) is the official representative of Denmark acting on behalf of the Danish Government regarding all aspects of IP legislation and policy. The DKPTO's Policy and Legal Affairs Department is responsible for developing Denmark's IP legislation and policy in relation to patents, utility models, trademarks and designs. Thus the site provides links to treaties, EU Council regulations and agreements and other materials concerning patents, utility models, trade marks and designs.

Jamil and Jamil

The website of Pakistani law firm Jamil and Jamil provides a large collection of Pakistani legislation (under ‘Publications’). Acts, ordinances and some rules and regulations are available; they are arranged by subject under about thirty different headings, including Companies, Commercial, Intellectual Property, Family, Property, Labour and Tort.

Isle of Man Legislation

The official Isle of Man legislation websit,e providing free, open access to all current Acts of Tynwald consolidated to show all amendments. Each of the current acts shows the act consolidated to September 2012. The site offers browse and search facilties and features: current acts presented alphabetically or by subject, with a point in time function allowing previous versions of acts to be viewed; a table of changes made to acts showing the source of amendments and the date they came into effect; all acts published “as enacted” since 2001; all acts repealed since September 2012.

African Legal Information Institute

The African Legal Information Institute (AfricanLII) makes available treaties, cases, resolutions, decisions, reports and other publications of African regional organisations. It also provides access to legislation and cases from 16 African countries, via its search facility. The home page has links to regional and national African websites. AfricanLII is a project of the Democratic Governance and Rights Unit (DGRU) at the University of Cape Town law faculty.

Laws of Grenada

Website providing access to a selection of Grenadian laws made freely available online by the Grenada Ministry of Legal Affairs. The site is presented in the form of an alphabetic listing of primary and secondary legislation.

Constitution of Jamaica

Online version of the Jamaican Constitution of 1962 made freely available on the Political Database of the Americas at Georgetown University in the United States. The Constitution incorporates amendments up to 1999 and includes chapters covering fundamental rights and freedoms, citizenship, role of parliament and the governor-general and the powers of the executive.

Constitution of Montserrat

Full text (PDF) copy of the 2010 Montserrat Constitution made freely available online by the Montserrat Constitution and Commissions’ Secretariat. Montserrat is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. The Constitution contains sections dealing with the fundamental rights and freedoms, the Executive, the judiciary and the role of the Governor.

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