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• 31 People’s Republic of China intellectual property databases (in Chinese)<br />

• 2 Philippines databases (in English): Sandiganbayan Decisions 2004; Sandiganbayan<br />

Resolutions 2003-<br />

• 7 Macau databases (in Chinese and Portuguese)<br />

• Malaysian Acts (Malayasia)<br />

• Kathmandu School of Law Research Series 2003-<br />

• Taiwan Constitutional Court (in Chinese)<br />

AsianLII also now has a comparative Chinese language search facility for 74 databases in<br />

Chinese from China (PRC), Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan.<br />

New Indian databases are now listed under <strong>Legal</strong> <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> of India.<br />

COMMONLII (COMMONWEALTH LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE)<br />

The Commonwealth <strong>Legal</strong> <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> (CommonLII) <br />

provides access to laws from 59 Commonwealth and common law jurisdictions. Most are<br />

provided by 8 LIIs in the Free Access to Law Movement, plus 75 developed by AustLII on<br />

CommonLII (mainly from Asia, the Caribbean, West Africa, Europe, and Commonwealth<br />

institutions), six of which were added in <strong>2010</strong>. Other new databases from LII of India were also<br />

searchable from CommonLII. At the end of <strong>2010</strong>, CommonLII provided a search facility over 905<br />

databases, an increase from 755 in 2009.<br />

The following databases were added in <strong>2010</strong>:<br />

• High Court of Trinidad and Tobago 1997-<br />

• Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago 1996-<br />

• Caribbean Cases in the English Reports (to 1873)<br />

• Singapore Yearbook of International Law 2004-<br />

• Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law 1997-2003<br />

• Supreme Court of Jamaica 1994-<br />

• Canadian Treaty Series 1812-<br />

WORLDLII (WORLD LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE)<br />

The World <strong>Legal</strong> <strong>Information</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> (WorldLII - ) provides access<br />

to databases from 12 collaborating LIIs, members of the Free Access to Law Movement (see<br />

Table for details), plus about 40 databases maintained on WorldLII by AustLII. At the end of<br />

<strong>2010</strong>, WorldLII provided searchable access to over 1,200 databases from all collaborating LIIs.<br />

The major development of WorldLII in <strong>2010</strong> was the launch of the International Law Library on<br />

WorldLII by Sir Kenneth Keith of the International Court of Justice in September <strong>2010</strong>. This ARC<br />

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