The Solomon Islands has become the first pacific nation to make historical legal documents dated prior to 1990 available on line.
Judges, magistrates, students and the general public can now read their country's historical legal documents on a website.
The Chief Justice, Sir Albert Palmer, praised the project as a successful step towards making the law more accessible for all Solomon Islanders.
Throughout the Pacific, the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute or Paclii has been working to put legal documents on line but Solomon Islands is the first to capture documents which were not originally inputted on computers.
Last year a Back Capture Unit was set up there to find and digitalise hard copies of documents from 1980 to 1990.
The Acting Director of Lenore Hamilton of Paclii who was instrumental in setting up the Back Capture Unit, says making these documents available will help uphold the rule of law in Solomon Islands.
But Ms Hamilton admits that the process has been laborious and time consuming.
"A hard copy document is scanned and converted into an electronic copy of it, and then its manually checked and errors are corrected from the scanning process and then it is proof read two or three times and re-formatted so that it is in a proper form to go on line."
