The Open Law Project is aimed at creating a comprehensive and free legal reference work of South African law for the benefit of the South African public at large.

Summary description

The Open Law Project facilitates the creation of a comprehensive body of South African law in a wiki environment to be developed and maintained by the legal community in South Africa.

Detailed description

There are very few sources of legal content in South Africa on South African law. Google can be tremendously helpful in finding what is available but, as yet, there is no single comprehensive legal reference work on the Web on South African law. The problem with this is that South Africans are governed and affected by South African law and this law is not very accessible to them.

The Open Law Project is an initiative aimed at creating a comprehensive and reliable legal reference work that is created by the South African legal community and which is available to South Africans who have access to an Internet connection and a web browser for free.

The intention is to make the content on this site available for free to the South African public, the content posted to this site can not be subject to copyright. Copyright makes the content less accessible. That being said, contributions from all members of the South African legal community are most welcome and appreciated. This is an opportunity to contribute back to the South African public.

Category

Policy/law

Project end date

9/1/2008 (233 days ago)

Creation date

12/7/2007 18:14

Development stage

deployment

city

Johannesburg

country

South Africa

Other countries

South Africa 

Main Language

English

Node Admin

Paul Jacobson

Number of people involved

6

External URL

openlawproject.org

tags: Johannesburg South Africa policy-law open-law-project open-law law project legal-reference public-access

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