People who have Helped

Professor R. Hughes

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Law, University of the South Pacific, School of Law

Professor Hughes initiated the creation of the School of Law website in 1996. Subsequently he supported the development of the site under the USP/AustLII cooperative project, which enabled the launch of PacLII in 2001.

AustLII's Directors and staff

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)

Graham Greenleaf, Andrew Mowbray, Philip Chung, Madeleine Davis and all the AustLII staff have contributed great time, energy and crucial expertise to the creation and support of PacLII. Their contributions, along with their their patience and encouragement, have been greatly appreciated.

Peter Murgatroyd

Emalus Campus Librarian, University of the South Pacific

Peter Murgatroyd and his library staff have given invaluable and considerable assistance and support in the creation and development of many areas of PacLII, since its inception. Linking between the Emalus Campus Library site and PacLII also significantly enriches both sites.

Emeritus Professor Don Paterson

University of the South Pacific, School of Law

Professor Paterson has written the learned series 'Sources of Law' especially for PacLII, which provides an invaluable 'road map' through the origins of Pacific laws, and he has provided considerable support and advice.

The staff and student volunteers of the University of the South Pacific School of Law

Without the assistance, contribution, determination, optimism and sheer hard work of these people PacLII would not exist.

The Pacific region's Judges, Attorneys-General, Legislative Counsel, Law Librarians and their staff

We would like to extend our sincere and ongoing thanks to all those crucial people who have believed in PacLII, provided us with much encouragement and, most significantly of all, entrusted us with their legal data!

Dr Reid Mortensen who initiated the support received from the Queensland Law Society.

Ken Richardson and Rebecca Robinson of the Papua New Guinea Law and Justice Sector Program, as funded by AusAID.

Lenore Hamilton of the Solomon Islands Law and Justice Sector Program, as funded by AusAID.

Xanthe Stuart, 'Amelia Pasikala Fassau and Wilford Gibson who originally designed and built the Pacific Islands Treaty Series (PITS) database.

Jenny Binihi and Geoff Boon for their patience and meticulous attention to detail in drawing up indexes for the Vanuatu Unreported Judgments.

Robyn Pettit of the University of Technology Sydney for her tireless efforts with the Marshall Islands Law Reports.

Abel Caine and the Staff of the Fiji Government Website

Many thanks go to the heroic efforts of Abel and his staff to publish the statutes of Fiji!