Mauritians will be happy but others of you around the world paying huge sums of money to Lexis may well be less pleased.. Then again, to know that maybe 1 cent in a 1000 of your expenditure is going to help all Mauritians have a free legislation database can’t be a bad thing
Here’s a list of countries that HOB suggests could do with this sort of approach straightaway
Egypt
Tunisia
The Lebanon
Algeria
East Timor
PNG
Also…while we’re at it.? All Pacific Island Nations should not have to be surviving on a diet of LII? however good it may be .
How about all 3 major publishers donating their entire resources free of charge on climate change issues to the AG’s Dept in each Pacific nation along with a permanent researcher, editor, and practicing? climate change lawyer to help these minnow nations at least make some inroads into dealing with an issue that will literally drown them out of existence in the next 50 years
Anyway here’s the report about Mauritius
LexisNexis builds free online legal database in Mauritius
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/lexisnexis-builds-free-online-legal-database-in-mauritius
The attorney general’s office of Mauritius has developed in partnership with South African company LexisNexis Butterworth an easy access website giving internet users free access to a database of all of the country’s legislation, reports the island’s L’Express newspaper. The Laws of Mauritius Online Database was officially launched by attorney general Yatim Varma at the Mauritius Bar Association in Port-Louis. He said at the event that the very concept of law requires transparency. If a law is secret, it cannot be a law. Legal transparency is necessary to ensure that laws are efficient. In addition to access to all of the statutes, the website features a documentation page with links to a code of ethics for attorneys, conventions and multi-lateral treaties, a report on human rights in Mauritius and other content. Other sections introduce internet users to the Law Reform Commission and the latest parliamentary questions.
