There’s a strong tendency in administration of justice and law to make people pay to have access to legal documents. There’s an american upseted by the appopriation of the publication of rulings by private companies and government, who are doing a lot of money by selling public information :
This week, Carl Malamud posted free electronic copies of every U.S. Supreme Court decision and Court of Appeals ruling since 1950.
Malamud hopes the database of 1.8 million rulings — equivalent to a row of law books longer than a football field — will inspire Internet users to demand that all court rulings be made available online for free.
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I wish Viet Nam and other country especially those who are struggling at building a state of rights and the rule of law to follow this example.
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080213/NEWS/802130315/1036/BUSINESS01
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