Ivan Mokanov, Deputy Director of LexUM and CanLII Editor, blogs about media/vendor neutral citations over at Cornell's  Vox PopuLII.
 

 The Order of the North Gauteng High Court, handed down on 26 February 2010, which registered and confirmed two SA Development Community (SADC) Tribunal rulings against Zimbabwe’s controversial land reform programme. Available here:
Fick and Others v Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe (Order) (25 February 2010)

 SAFLII now carries Zambian Numbered Acts 1997 - here:
http://www.saflii.org/zm/legis/num_act/
The legislation is re-published from the Zambian National Assembly website and is now searchable through the main search on the SAFLII home page. 
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The SAFLII website will be unavailable on Wednesday 20 Jan from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm (UTC+2).The server will be down for routine maintenance.

The Pretoria High Court (Justice Tuchten) order for leave to sue the Government of Zimbabwe for the return or compensation of seized farms. Fick and Others v Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe (13 January 2010)

The Pretoria High Court order dealing with bilateral protection of investment between Zimbabwe and South Africa including land. The order recognizes the SADC Tribunal decisions: Fick and Others v Government of the Republic of South Africa
 

Please note that the SAFLII office will be closed from Monday 21 December, 2009 to Friday 8 January, 2010.
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 Follow the Law via the Internet Conference as delegates microblog on Twitter hashtags #lvi2009 #lvi09 

Next week SAFLII is hosting the Law via the Internet conference for the very first time in Africa! Conference registrations now exceed 190 participants and the Programme <http://www.lawviatheinternet.org/programme> features speakers from the judiciary, academia, private sector and NGOs from around the world. Deputy Chief Justice Moseneke (South Africa) will open the event and Chief Justice Egonda-Ntende (Seychelles) will deliver the keynote address.

Free access to law projects are often seen to produce value primarily, if not exclusively, for the community of legal professionals - in government, NGOs, academia or private practice. We sometimes forget that the law serves society and that each individual citizen is entitled to have access to the law not necessarily through an intermediary - a legal professional, but also directly to enable him/her to exercise rights and learn about obligations ...