Programme

Day 1

8:00 – 9:00	Registration
9:00 – 10:00	Opening Address: Deputy Chief Justice Moseneke
10:00 – 10:30	Tea
10:30 – 12:30	Free Access to Law initiatives in Africa Initiatives in Southern Africa The Southern African Legal Information Institute: Mariya Badeva-Bright Initiatives in East Africa Kenya Law Reports: Gladys Boss Shollei Initiatives in West Africa Burkina Faso, Niger: Bobson Coulibaly Initiatives in West and Central Africa The Congo Basin Region, Mali and Mauritania: Dié Lakhsara
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 16:30	Standards for Presentation of Legal Information Model policies and protocols for maximising access to decisions of courts in Canada Justice Gordon Campbell Openness to third-party additions essential to meaningful public access Professor Peter W. Martin XML Modelling of Judgments with Akoma Ntoso Professor Monica Palmirani A multilingual approach for promoting worldwide open access to law Professor Mario Ragona A proposal of a cross border legal documents identification scheme Dr. Enrico Francesconi

13:30 – 16:30

Free Access to Law Experiences in Africa

Sustaining LIIs and Sustainable LIIs – Donors, Governance and Funding

Perspectives from the IDRC
Khaled Fourati
Organizational and governance models for LIIs
Ivan Mokanov - CanLII
The Life Cycle of Free Access to Law Initiatives – Some Context for International Donors
Pierre-Paul Lemyre - LexUM
Outcome Mapping
Ineke Buskens

14:45 – 15:15

Tea

16:30 – 17:30

Open Access to Scholarly Legal Materials

Open Access to Legal Scholarship: Opening the Barriers to Discourse and Dialogue
Prof. Richard A. Danner
Open Access Law Journals In South Africa – Feasibility and Advisability Thereof
Shirley Gilmore

Open Access solutions for cross-disciplinary research: Discussion

Day 2

8:30 – 9:30	Keynote Address: *Justice Egonda-Ntende*
9:30 – 12:30	Policy and Legal Considerations and Free Access Copyright and Free Access to Law Andrew Rens Privacy and Security Considerations in Access to Case-Law Mark Heyink Privacy, Freedom of Expression and the online publication of court cases Professor David Taylor Free Access to Legal Information Services through the Commercial Exploitation of Public Sector Information (PSI): A New Challenge for African Countries from the European Experience Daniela Tiscornia-Roberta Nannucci. Online legal information and the requirements for official status of legal documents Prof. Daniel Poulin
10:00 – 10:30	Tea
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch

13:30 – 15:30

Free And Open Source Solutions in Support of FAL

Multi-lingual approaches to Asian law online
Philip Chung
Heuristics for legal citation recognition
Prof. Andrew Mowbray
Akoma Ntoso as a standard for the lifecycle and the transparency of legal and legislative documents
Prof. Fabio Vitali - UNIBO
Cross-national access to legal information: some critical issues emerging from the N-Lex experimental system
Sebastiano Faro, ITTIG- CNR, Florence, Italy

Technology in Support of Courts and Parliaments

Access to Justice - Scaling Up For the Public
John Mayer
BungeniEditor: Markup of legal documents in OpenOffice Write using custom XML schema, the AKOMA NTOSO case
Ashok Hariharan and Flavio Zeni
The Role of Open Source Technologies in Enhancing Access to Justice and Law
Gregory Azeff
ICT, Firms Productivity and Judicial Organization
Prof. Emilio Tucci

User Perspectives on Free Access to Law

How can Web 2.0 technologies help us understand the law?
Olivier Charbonneau
Using Opera Web Browser to Manage Legal Information Gerald Byrne
Using Free Access Legal Materials in Legal Information Services – GilesFiles
Graham Giles
Jurispedia
Kerry Anderson

15:30 – 16:00	Tea
16:00 – 17:30	Global Network for Law What about an AfriLII? The need for an African global strategy of Legal Information diffusion using Internet and IT? Amavi Tagodoe 10 strategies for advancing free access to law world-wide Prof. Graham Greenleaf Strategies for Establishing National LIIs in Africa Tererai Mafukidze
17:30 – 18:30	Closing address:Justice O'Regan
19:30 - Late	Gala Dinner

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