Open Access to Law in Cyprus - The CyLaw Project Overview
Explore the evolution and achievements of The CyLaw Project in Cyprus, showcasing its inception, collaborations, database coverage, funding model, legislative initiatives, and more. Discover how this project has revolutionized legal accessibility and research in the Cypriot legal landscape.
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The Cylaw Project: Open Access to Law in Cyprus Laris Vrahimis 26thSeptember 2024 1
The beginning How it all started Initial coverage Collaborations Supreme Court FALM - LVI conferences Sino Hyperlinking English Citations Stemmer Expanding to total coverage University of Cyprus project searchable pdf and searchable 2
The beginning (cont) The Civil Procedure Rules project Legislative XML proof of concept 3
Cyprus Bar Association Funding model The new structure CyLII/Cylaw, CBA, CyLI(R)I Need to expand databases Conversion of all case law database to HTML Addition of smaller collections Supreme Constitutional Court JSC Reports Addition of First Instance Judgments 4
Cyprus Bar Association (cont) Consolidated Legislation Numbered legislation Numbered Secondary Legislation (from1930) 5
The Legislation Project The consolidated legislation project Starting from existing consolidations Law Commissioner s Consolidations Korakides further consolidated set to ~ 2000 Digitization of numbered acts Simplified XML Tag to Section Level, XHTML from there Replace section whenever amended Consolidation platform - Limitations 6
Cylaw Database Coverage Judgments Tribunals Judgments All higher courts and administrative courts (including old reports) (full coverage) Issue with first instance judgments Tribunals (from 2002 + 2004) Primary Secondary Legislation Consolidated legislation (full coverage of main legislation Part 1 not Part 2 and Part 3 (Budgets and International Treaties) Numbered primary and secondary legislation (full coverage - pdf) Rules of Procedure Numbered rules of procedure (full coverage - pdf) Consolidated rules of procedure and new and old Civil Procedure Rules 7
Cylaw Database Coverage (cont) Greek EU Material Areios Pagos (crawler - full coverage) Court of Justice of the European Union (full coverage of Greek language material) What is missing: Cyprus Government Gazette Journals (legacy and new) Other Greek Higher Courts (Council of State, Court of Audit) Other EU Material Translations of ECHR judgments Hyperlinks to these materials 8
Cylaw Database Coverage (cont) What is missing: Cyprus Government Gazette Journals (legacy and new) Other Greek Higher Courts (Council of State, Court of Audit) Other EU Material Translations of ECHR judgments Hyperlinks to EU materials Index of Secondary Legislation Did you mean or fuzzy search functionality 9
Principles Provide free access to our databases to all Provide the best possible automated means to access primary legal information No editorial work (however: except legislation consolidations, indexes, and basic metadata to documents) Use most of our funds to create collections of documents or long-term added value Outsource tasks where possible No duplication with other services (though one stop shop for searching) Close co-operation with creators of legal information and where possible transfer responsibility for updating information to them Comprehensive coverage Timely updating of databases Ensure financial viability of project in the future by reducing running costs 10
What Next? Legislation project CyEcli project Redesign of site More personnel part time but committed not stretch resources or expand resources AI? (TBA) 11
