AustLII - a public legal information institute (pLII)

Basis - a commitment to free access to public legal information

Independent - joint facility of UTS & UNSW Law Faculties

Free access and non-profit: funded by 'stakeholders', not user charges or advertising

Large scale databases - over 130 databases of caselaw, legislation, law journals etc; over 100,000 cases, 1M pages of legislation

Large scale usage - up to 400,000 hits per day

Small staff of 8.5 - modest budget about A$500,000 (US$250,000)

Based on research - automation and own software

Combines a public access system, research, and education

Other examples of pLIIs - Cornell's LII , BAILLI and CanLII