New Legislation Web site for Iraq in which the Announcement came from the CBI

[yota691]

CBI announcement     

New website for the base of Iraqi legislation (Www.iraqld.com) 7.3.2013 http://www.iraqld.com/AboutEn.aspx 

   

1 - Introduction:

In 2004, the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ), launched a project to create an Iraqi Legal Database (the "ILD"). 

The objective behind the project is to make the entire corpus of Iraqi law available to judges, lawyers, academics, lawmakers, and all other individuals or institutions that rely on legal knowledge in a single, freely accessible source. In keeping with this objective, this website, which was launched in September 2008, makes available to users 27, 54 3 legal texts altogether, including 7, 353 laws, 4, 324ministerial instructions, 3.2 85 regulations, 5, 495 declarations , etc, which is to say every single Iraqi legal text that has been passed since 1917 to April 2011, in addition court decisions from all Iraqi and Kurdish courts. The ILD is entirely free-of-charge and does not require users to subscribe in any way. UNDP-Iraq is the source of most of the funding for the ILD. 

The project was originally designed to be implemented in several phases:

 - Phase I (2004-2006):  During this phase, a complete copy of Iraq's Official Gazette, which includes every law, decree and legal text that has been passed since the establishment of the Iraqi State, was retrieved and scanned with a view to making them completely searchable in an electronic database (through a "Reference Search" and "Free search" interface). That version of the ILD was made ​​available online by the Iraqi High Judicial Council in 2006.

- Phase II (2006-2008): During this phase, a number of improvements were made ​​to the ILD, including but not limited to the following:

• For each law or legal text that has been modified or annulled through a subsequent text, full reference has been provided to the modifying text, and the modified text itself has been updated (which is the first time that this has been done in Iraqi law) .

• All laws and regulations from the Kurdish Region were incorporated into the database. These texts were obtained from the Kurdistan Official Gazette (1992 - 2008). In addition, a feature Allowing users to compare Kurdish legislation with Iraqi legislation was incorporated into the ILD .

• All the legal texts in the ILD were linked together through the use of hyperlinks .

• Three thematic indexes relating to criminal law, criminal procedural law, and commercial law were created. Each article of the mentioned laws was linked to the appropriate title / titles from the related index as well as to court decisions that relate to its particular subject and makes them available in a single source .

• Officials from Iraq's judicial sector have been trained in the use of the ILD to ensure that the Iraqi State benefits from the work that has already been completed .

- Phase III (2009-2011): UNDP launched Phase III in September 200 9 . A number of activities have been implemented in that context, firstly with a view to completing the database and incorporating additional relevant sources that have not already been added, secondly with a view to ensuring that the benefits of the ILD are shared by as many practitioners and court users as possible, and thirdly with a view to ensuring the Project's long term sustainability. More specifically:

• Elaborating 21 thematic indexes related and grouped into 6 main areas of Code . The subject matter areas in which specific codes has been created include: - Civil Code (including 1 - contract law and tort law, 2 - civil procedure); - Commercial Code (including 3-commercial law; 4 - companies law, 5 - maritime law, 6 - Trade and Commerce chamber law); - Criminal Code (including in addition to 7 - criminal law and 8 - criminal procedure law, 9 - Military criminal procedure law, 10 - Criminal procedure law for internal security forces, 11 - Military Criminal Law, and 12 - Criminal Law); - Property Code (including 13 - real estate property, and 14 - property registration law); - Banking Code (including 15 - central bank law, 16 - banking laws, 17 - Stock Market Law , 18 - Investment laws, and 19-money-laundering law); - Labor and Social Security Code (including 20 - Labor Law; and 21 - Social security law) ;
  
  
  
  
   

• Documenting 6 main areas of Code : During Phase III, 6 main areas of code as mentioned above including 21,000 articles of laws were documented. Each legal code groups together all the related laws, by-laws, regulations and other legal texts. Each article of law was linked to the appropriate titles / titles and annotated by the related court decisions ;

• Updating the ILD : All Iraqi and Kurdish legal texts from 2007 to April 2011 were incorporated into the database, and linked together through the use of hyperlinks. Each legal text was modified and amended by inserting the amendment into each articles of law ;

• Ensuring the Project's sustainability : An Iraqi company was trained and participated in the documentation of the legal texts and the court decisions. A number of Iraqi experts will be trained to update the ILD on a regular basis and to ensure that, when the Project is finally transferred to the Iraqi authorities, it will be updated and maintained as future laws are promulgated and as courts issue more decisions. The Iraqi High Judicial Council has already committed to supporting the long term sustainability of the Project, and is prepared to retain full time staff for this purpose ;

• Training in the use of the ILD : In order to ensure that the ILD has the greatest impact possible on the Iraqi legal profession and the rule of law generally speaking, a series of training sessions will be organized. 

- Phase IV: This Phase consists in increasing the participation of the Iraqi experts in carrying the continuous updating and maintenance of the ILD by them-Selves. More specifically:

• Completing the ILD: Completing the documentation of all remaining legal codes, which will be annotated by relevant court decisions.In addition to incorporating the updated and modified legal texts.

• Enhancing the ILD: A number of activities will be implemented in that context, mainly additional legal information will be incorporated, such as the full texts of the bilateral / multilateral convention with a view to incorporate English legal texts into the database.

2 - Search method: A search in the ILD possible through (1) a free search technique and (2) an oriented search technique. The latter possibility possible through three tools:

• Search by reference: This will include the possibility of retrieve a particular text through use of an ID reference (legal document type, legal document number, date, title, region, validation). 

• Search by checklist of juridical classification terms: (including broad terms such as labor law, civil law, intellectual property, exchange, commercial register etc.). This oriented technique will allow a user to view all the documents contained in the database relating to a particular topic by selecting a particular term from the checklist.

• Search by Thematic Indexes. This Allows users by clicking on a defined title selected from any index (the complete set of titles, which are graded from higher to lower level, should constitute an Arborous tree equivalent to a table of contents) to access the related articles of laws, annotated with the related court decisions. A title could embrace more than one article, and each article could be indexed by more than one title.  

• Free Search is the easiest way of reaching data with Boolean operator options (Phrase, and, or). It is also supported by the thesaurus which is considered to be a useful approach in the legal context, as a result of frequent terminological differences, defining the synonymous relations between Iraqi concepts. This thesaurus aims at supporting search and to avoid silence due usually to the difference in terminology.

In addition, each piece of information that will be stored on the database will be connected to all others through a hyperlink system. This will allow a user who is reviewing an individual legal text to determine which other sources are of relevance to that particular text.

The ILD is available only in Arabic. Iraqi law was not translated into any other language in a systematic manner, and so therefore legal researchers and other jurists that are interested in Iraqi law must carry out their research in Arabic. Non-English speaking researchers who are interested in learning more about the ILD's features may download the following PowerPoint presentation which illustrates (and translates into English) the ILD's various functions. 

The ILD project is being managed by dedicated experts, including Roula Zayat (Legal Informatics Specialist), Mohamed El Abyad (IT Expert) and a group of Iraqi Legal Experts who have been working under the leadership of Dr Wassim Harb specialized in legal Informatics. Any questions relating to the ILD, or to the contents of this introduction to the website, should be directed to Webmaster@iraq-ild.org

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[HYDRANT]

i searched this web site and it said ------iqd  increasing in value soon----lol

[gregp]

This is nice! Thank you Yota.

[sandfly]

thank u

[uncirculd]

YOTA

New website for CBI too with new value to come soon??  Maybe??   Yota, while looking at this link I noticed that it appears they didn't come out and say the NCSP was passed, and I didn't know.  Did you?  I missed something I think..  It took them a year to put in Gazzette or approve it?  who knows.    check it out:  http://www.iraq-lg-law.org/en/node/2327

Edited March 7, 2013 by uncirculd

[easyrider]

O its coming!!!!    

[yota691]

YOTA

New website for CBI too with new value to come soon??  Maybe??   Yota, while looking at this link I noticed that it appears they didn't come out and say the NCSP was passed, and I didn't know.  Did you?  I missed something I think..  It took them a year to put in Gazzette or approve it?  who knows.    check it out:  http://www.iraq-lg-law.org/en/node/2327

Things started to rumble around the 13 of Feb on this subject as far articles...

[Crime_dog]

Thanks for the info

[Boozer]

I never like to hear Iraq use the word  SOON. I sometimes think it means NEVER. or my favorite , IN THE COMING DAYS.. 

Edited March 7, 2013 by Boozer

[vrnorth]

I never like to hear Iraq use the word  SOON. I sometimes think it means NEVER. or my favorite , IN THE COMING DAYS.. 

I know. you hit it dead on!!

[Moejoe]

Apparently, most of the people that are saying it will be "soon" or "in coming days", or in "the next period", are just a bunch of old Archaelogists. "The other day" was only a thousand years ago.