Kenyan Law Reports Wins IALL Website Award Competition

Kenyan Law Reports (KLR), a free Kenyan Law database, has been announced as the winner of the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) 2011 Website Award Competition. With this award, Kenyan Law Reports joins the ranks of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law websites that claimed the 2010 and 2009 awards respectively.

KLR provides free access to primary sources of the laws of Kenya, namely case law and consolidated laws (Acts) including the subsidiary legislation for both of which it is the official source.  The field of contenders for the 2011 award included THOMAS, Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), Legifrance, as well as several other websites dedicated to international legal and jurisprudence matters.

Hat tip to In Custodia Legis, the blog of the Law Librarians of Congress, for reporting the good news. Read the full post here.