Location
PacLII stands for the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. It is an initiative of the University of the South Pacific School of Law with assistance from AustLII. PacLII is a signatory to the Montreal Declaration on Public Access to Law and participates in the Free Access to Law movement, (FALM) a grouping of a number of world wide organizations committed to publishing and providing access to the law for free. PacLII is based at the Emalus Campus of the USP in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
USP School of Law is based in Port Vila and has students located across 12 countries of the Pacific who do not have easy access to the legal materials from across the region which they need to undertake their studies. PacLII was started by the School of Law as a means to overcoming the tyrannies of distance. It has grown to become a service to governments, legal professionals, NGOs, students, academics and members of the public and has been widely recognized as an example of excellence in promoting access to legal information.
PacLII collects and publishes legal materials from 20 Pacific Islands Countries on its website www.paclii.org which is hosted by AustLII. These countries are American Samoa, Cook Islands, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
The materials consist mainly of primary materials such as court decisions and legislation but also include decisions of various tribunals, panels, Ombudsmens reports or secondary information such as court rules or bench books. PacLII is now seeking to expand its collections to include law related materials such as subject specific papers and reports. PacLII is also developing a series of subject specific libraries utilising predetermined search technology. An Intellectual Property and a Maritime Law Library have been created and more are planned. A number of Pacific Islands Treaties are also available but direct access to the database has been suspended due to a current lack of capacity.
Members:
Resources
Displaying 141 - 145 of 298Administration of Estates Act 1925 (15 16 Geo. 5 c 23).
This Act concerns the administration of real estate of deceased persons by personal representative of the deceased person or executor by will. The Act also makes provision for the disposal of land subject to this Act and other administration of assets. A testator may appoint, and in default of such express appointment shall be deemed to have appointed, as his or her special executors in regard to settled land, the persons, if any, who are at his or her death the trustees of the settlement thereof, and probate may be granted to such trustees specially limited to the settled land.
Intestates' Estates Act 1952 (15 16 GEO. 6 1 ELIZ. 2, c, 64).
This Act concerns the administration of real property of persons dying intestate. The Act also makes provision for the disposal of land subject to this Act and other administration of assets and defines rights of surviving persons.
Unit Titles Act (No. 17 of 2005).
This Act concerns the subdivision of land into units, the establishment of rights relating to such units and provides rules relative to unit titles."Unit"- means a part of the land that is designed for separate ownership. The subdivision of land into units shall be effected by confirmation of the Court of a plan describing the units in their relation to a building or buildings already erected on the land.
Traditional Rights Court Rules of Procedure 2006.
These Rules of the High Court of the Marshall Islands concern submittal to the Traditional Rights Court of an application to decide on complaints regarding traditional rights and the proceedings of hearings before the Court. In an application, a party shall specify the questions that the party wants certified, and any other party may, within 21 days after such application, request that other questions also be certified. There shall be a pre-trial conference and, if no agreement is possible on a joint statement, separate pre-trail statements.
Unit Titles Amendment Act 2007 (No. 2 of 2007).
This Act amends the Unit Titles Act by deleting the Schedule thereto and substituting the Schedule attached to this Act. The Schedule specifies Islands to which this Act applies.
Amends: Unit Titles Act (No. 17 of 2005). (2005-10-14)