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Impacts and Effects of Publishing Legal Information in a Small Jurisdiction: Privacy v Open Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2014

Sue du Feu  and
James Lambert
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Abstract

This paper, written by Sue du Feu and James Lambert, outlines the challenges faced by the Jersey Legal Information Board (JLIB) in providing free access to legal information. The power of modern internet search engines has implications for a small island jurisdiction wishing to make its case law available on-line (see: www.jerseylaw.je). Having established protocols and policies to ensure a balance between open justice and privacy, several years later, JLIB is faced with concerns from individuals who feel that continuing public access to their earlier misdemeanours is an unfair burden. The paper will explain how the JLIB addressed the challenge of publishing court judgments online while safeguarding the interests of the individual.

Keywords

legal informationfree legal informationlegal sourcesJersey
Type
Selection of Papers from the BIALL Conference 2014
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2014 , pp. 284 - 289
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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