The Solomon Islands needs books and law reports

06/10/2009

The Public Solicitors Office of the Solomon Islands is in desperate need of reference materials, particularly in the areas of family and criminal law, and has asked all members of the New South Wales Bar not to dispose of books and reports without contacting them first.

Solomon Islands statute law is based on pre-independence (1978) English statutes and local law, which is still heavily dependent on English authorities. The PSO's branch offices on Malaita and the Western provinces rely on Halsbury's Laws of England (3ed). They have no Family Law Reports,� no All England Reports and no NSWLRs at all. The main library in the capital, Honiara, has partial sets of CLRs (vols 1-162) and ACrimRs (vols 1-162), and would like to make those sets complete.

For further information, contact Sarah Bradley at Maurice Byers Chambers

**6 October 2009 **