Competition Categories
- Best Court Website
- Best Tribunal Website
- Best Court Department Website
- Best Public Sector Legal Website
- Best Private Sector Legal Website
- Best Community Sector Website
- Best overall (judges' award only)
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Rules of AIJA Legal Website Competition
Definitions/eligibility criteria
Nominations
Awards
Definitions/eligibility criteria
1. For the purposes of this competition:
- 'Court Website' is a web site maintained by an individual court.
- 'Tribunal Website' is a website maintained by an individual tribunal.
- 'Court Department Website' is a website maintained by a government department or agency with operational responsibility for providing administrative support and assistance to courts and/or tribunals.
- 'Public Sector Legal Website' - is a web site maintained by a government department or agency, or by a publicly funded education or research organisation. (not including courts and tribunals)
- 'Private Sector Legal Website' is a website maintained by a private company e.g. law firm, legal publisher or legal professional.
- 'Community Sector Legal Website' - is a website maintained by a not for profit community organisation.
Nominations
- Information contained in a nomination must be true and correct at the time of entry and apply for the entire length of the competition.
- Submissions of nominations are final and cannot be updated.
- Nominations must be submitted in complete form and contain all compulsory information. The competition organisers reserve the right to reject any nomination that does not comply with this provision.
- All nominations accepted subject to verification with and the consent of the individual/organisation responsible for maintaining the nominated site.
Awards
- Decisions of the organisers and the evaluation panel are final and no correspondence will be entered into. All information concerning those decisions is confidential and will be released solely at their discretion.
- The organisers reserve the following rights:
(a) to disqualify an entry for any reason.
(b) to cancel or change the competition for any reason.
(c) not to make any award in a particular category or to award tied winning entries.
Timetable
28 April 2000 - launch
Entries taken to 1 September 2000 - all entries posted to Website competition page on Technology for Justice Conference on AIJA Website - links to all entrants
1 Sep - 15 September 2000 - Individual judging
17 Sep - 30 September 2000 - Evaluation Panel judging & compilation of results
9 October 2000 - announcement of winners - posting on Conference Website
AIJA Website Competition Steering Committee
The Hon Justice Bernie Teague
Supreme Court of VIC
Mr Giles Nunis
Director, Courts Development
Ministry of Justice - Westralia Square
Ms Sue Scott
Director, Online Legal Access Project
Law Foundation of NSW
Ms Anne Wallace
Deputy Executive Director, AIJA
Other Information
The American
Association of Law Libraries has
published a checklist for evaluating legal websites and references to some on-line
articles that discuss website evaluation