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An Emerging Welsh Legal Identity: a Brief Overview of the Information Landscape

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2013

Lillian Stevenson
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Abstract

“Wales, it has to be said, has come a very long way in a short time.” was the opening line by Sir David Lloyd Jones in his speech on, “The Law Commission and Law Reform in a Devolved Wales” to the Wales Governance Centre Annual Lecture in Aberystwyth in March 2013.1 This brief overview by Lillian Stevenson attempts to discuss this statement using selected documents published after the 2011 referendum in which the people of Wales voted in favour of extending the law making powers of the National Assembly.

Keywords

devolutionlegal informationWelsh law
Type
Legal Information and Aspects of Devolution
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , September 2013 , pp. 156 - 161
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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