Legal Products Update

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Legal Products Update

• Sabinet Legal Products
• Sabinet Team
• Existing products
• SabinetLaw
• SAGazettes
• NetLaw
• Newsletters
• SA ePublications Legal Collection
• New Products
• Retrospective Gazettes
• Provincial NetLaw
• Bylaws
• Customised parliamentary monitoring

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Sabinet Legal Products
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Legal Product Management Team
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Cape Town Team
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Existing Products
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SabinetLaw

• Webpage highlighting the latest government and
  parliamentary happenings
• Ministerial profiles
• Government department profiles
• Parliamentary programme
• Parliamentary committee profile
• chairperson
• legislation being considered
• weekly programme of each committee
• Legislative profiles
• new draft bills, bills and acts from 2008 onwards
• following legislation through the legislative
  process
• documents open for public comment

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SabinetLaw

• Articles by Sabinets parliamentary office
  writers
• Categorisation of all four types of profiles and
  articles
• Daily updates
• Full text documents free to subscribers
• non subscribers may purchase documents
• RSS feeds for all categories
• articles and legislative profiles
• Twitter

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www.sabinetlaw.co.za
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SAGazettes

• Took note of Client Survey
• Unfriendly, outdated interface, etc
• Prototype in progress
• Input and testing with help of existing clients
• In the next few months
• Alerts
• Clients will be alerted when the Gazettes are
  received

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NetLaw

• All amended/consolidated
• Acts
• Rules
• Regulations
• Notices

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Newsletters revamped

• Currently three Newsletters
• Business
• Financial services
• Mining, Energy Engineering
• Weekly e-mail alerts
• news from government parliament relevant for
  specific sector
• Covers other areas with direct influence on your
  operations such as labour, communications, public
  enterprises, trade and industry and transport
• Includes links to relevant full-text documents

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Newsletters revamped

• Weekly e-mail alerts also include
• ministers' speeches
• draft bills published for comment
• submissions on policy documents
• tabled bills
• portfolio committee papers
• relevant news
• regulations and promulgations, and more

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Newslettersrevamped

• Documents are sourced from
• parliament and committees
• government gazettes
• SAPA reports
• government departments
• other sources

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SA ePubs Legal Collection

• 38 Full text journals

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New Products
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Retrospective Gazettes

• from 1910 - 1993
• national and provincial gazettes
• projected completion date April 2010
• more information on launch, pricing, etc
  available nearer to completion date
• old documents can already be requested at R400-00
  per document.

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Provincial NetLaw

• all provinces from 1994
• includes consolidated acts, rule and regulations
• projected completion date of project April 2010

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Bylaws

• first subsets to be launched Sept 2009
• completion date of the whole project Dec 2009
• subscriptions will be available per province
  (including all municipalities in that province)

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Customised Parliamentary Monitoring

• in-depth profiling based on individual client
  needs
• accompanied by a thorough briefing on the
  monitoring landscape and the monitoring and
  reporting processes used
• regular interaction with Sabinet monitoring staff
• extensive document coverage
• daily monitoring of parliamentary and government
  documentation
• speeches, statements, presentations, policy
  documents including green and white papers, draft
  bills, bills, acts, and the government gazettes
• short reports accompanied by the relevant full
  text documents
• immediate notification
• access to archive

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Sabinet Legal Products
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