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Austlii
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Australian
Case Law and Statutes.
Excellent site. Excellent searching and browsing facilities.The
legislation is available in HTML format with links displaying
the individual sections on the screen. In order to print the
full document, there is the option to download to a WORD document.
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Scaleplus
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PLEASE
NOTE: From 1 January 2005 all new primary and subordinate
legislation that is made will be published on ComLaw/Federal
Register of Legislative Instruments as relevant, not to SCALEplus.
However, SCALEplus will continue to be available to users
until all relevant material, including historical material,
is migrated to ComLaw. Until this process is complete, you
may need to visit SCALEplus in order to access the contents
of: all historical databases, Statutory Rules that are not
in force, and the legislation of the non-self-governing Territories. |
Comlaw
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ComLaw
is the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian
Attorney-General's Department. ComLaw is an integral part
of the Australian Law Online initiative to bring low or no-cost
access to the law for the community. Supersedes ScalePlus.
It does not contain case law. All files are available in PDF,
HTML and RTF formats. The search feature is cumbersome and
not very user friendly, however, it becomes easy with familiarity. |
Lawlex
|
Contains
all Australian Commonwealth and States bills and legislation.
Easy to search, supports all the usual database features
eg phrase searching, Boolean.
A most excellent and useful feature is the Subject
index of principal Australian legislation.
Not sure which is the most relevant act? Just click on the
broad category.
Main disadvantage: Copies of legislation and regulations
are in PDF format with no HTML links to the different sections. |
| ANSTAT |
ANSTAT
covers legislation of the STATE and COMMONWEALTH.
Commonwealth
legislation is available on the Free Legislation
section which links to the LAWLEX website.
Search
facility for the Free Legislation
section is extremely limited and all acts are PDF format
with no HTML links to the different sections.
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Victorian
Legislation and Regulations |
Victorian
Legislation and
Parliamentary documents
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Office
of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel Excellent website
for Victorian legislation and regulations.
There are three sections:
Parliamentary Documents:
Contains access to Bills, Hansard and other documents from
the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council.
The Statute Book contains all the Acts
and Statutory Rules of the State of Victoria, enacted or
made after 1 January 1996. You can select to list Acts or
Statutory Rules by title or number (if you know what year
it was made), or enter specific search criteria to identify
the Act or Statutory Rule you wish to view. If you need
to view the latest version of a Principal Act or Statutory
Rule (ie including all operative amendments), select the
Act from the "Law Today" tab. The Statute Book
only contains the version as at the day it was passed.
The end result is a PDF file of the Act.
Law
today: contains Versions of all the Principal Public
Acts and Principal Statutory Rules of Victoria. Use the
Law Today if you need to see the latest version of an Act
or Statutory Rule. The repository was launched on 1 July,
1997 containing consolidated Versions of 287 Principal Public
Acts, being the most important and heavily amended Principal
Public Acts. Versions of all other Principal Public Acts
and Principal Statutory Rules have been progressively added
to the repository. On average, there are about 530 Principal
Public Acts in force in Victoria at any time. Since 1984
when legislation providing for automatic sunsetting of regulations
came into operation, the number of Principal Statutory Rules
in force in Victoria has been falling, but on average there
are about 480 Principal Statutory Rules in force at any
time
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Federal
and Victorian Bills |
BillsNet
|
The parliament
of Australia website has a section called BillsNet which has
proposed bills, proposed amendments and explanatory memoranda. |
Victorian
Bills
|
This
is an excellent site for tracking Victorian Bills from the
time they are introduced to the time they are assented. The
website is the Premier’s department and form the main
page, select Parliamentary Documents. |
Federal
and State Case Law |
| Austlii |
Australian
Case Law and Statutes.
Excellent site. Excellent searching and browsing facilities.The
legislation is available in HTML format with links displaying
the individual sections on the screen. In order to print the
full document, there is the option to download to a WORD document.
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The Attorney-General’s
department provides expert advice to the government on the
maintenance and improvement of the Australian system of law
and justice. The site provides links to current issues and
news, Gazettes, and databases and subject gateways such as
ComLaw, Scaleplus, Family Law, and Australian Law Online.
There are online user guides for these databases. The site
also provides links to the State and Territory government
departments responsible for safety, law and justice, and State-based
law portals.
Good search engine allows you to search the website, there
are links to Australia Law Online. |
| Australian
Customs Service |
Information
about Australian Customs. |
| Australian Guide to Legal Citation |
The AGLC provides Australia with a uniform system of legal citation and outlines established citation practices and indicates preferred approaches where no particular approach has been widely adopted. It is designed for academics, legal practitioners, law students and the judiciary, and is a valuable tool for legal writing and research. |
| The
Australian Institute of Criminology |
Provides
information about crime in Australia including statistics,
research, publications, etc. |
Australian
Law Online
|
The Attorney-General's
Department has been designated the lead agency for the law
and justice portal, which is known as Australian Law Online.
Australian Law Online provides access to law and justice related
information and services from all levels of government. The
objective of this site is to provide Australians with ready
access to clear, understandable, user-friendly information
about the Australian legal system and the government organisations
that are part of the Australian legal system.
Australian Law Online operates primarily as a gateway or 'signpost'.
It directs users to law and justice related information and
services that are provided by government and selected non-government
organisations.
Its audience is the public and therefore operates similar
to the Law Handbook, in trying to simplify the law and make
it accessible to the general public.
Good search facility.
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| Fitzroy
Legal Service |
Provides
information about Australian law including legislation and
case law, community reports and links to related topics including
police, criminology, etc. |
| FindLaw |
FindLaw
is a free legal information service containing information
for legal professionals, students, business people, and members
of the public. Includes a useful “Find a lawyer”
facility.
The most popular use of FindLaw is to find information about
legal issues that regularly affect business people and members
of the public. Updated by a legal publishing firm and is very
similar to the Victorian Law Handbook in terns of the type
of information, language and audience. It does have a section
for students and legal practitioners as well.
There
are links to free articles.
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| Law
Institute of Victoria |
The Law
Institute of Victoria is the professional association for
Victorian solicitors and includes a public access area. |
| Law
Internet Resources |
Provides
links to law resources on the Internet including Australian
law, NZ law, UK law, international law, environmental law,
privacy, etc. |
| Victoria
Law Foundation |
Legal
information, simply stated. Law for people. |
The
Victorian Law Reform Commission
|
The Victorian
Law Reform Commission (VLRC) was established under the Victorian
Law Reform Commission Act 2000 as a central agency for developing
law reform in Victoria.
The Law Reform Commission publishes a variety
of publications and resources that are all available free
online. These publications include information about our
organisation and community legal information resources related
to the areas of law we are reviewing. Sometimes, these resources
may be produced in conjunction with other agencies.
An
initial discussion paper which identifies the key issues
is produced and is intended to foster debate. Then a final
report with recommendations is produced.
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| Victorian
Legal Aid |
Users
of this website will be able to find legal information, access
legal aid guidelines, application forms and participate in
online surveys. |
Weblaw
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WebLaw
is a cooperative subject gateway to Internet resources for
Australian legal researchers. It is a distributed cataloging
system, based on a central database model. Law librarians
from the participating organisations have taken responsibility
for a particular subject area or areas and provide annotated
records for quality Internet legal resources in this area. |
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| American
Law Sources |
Provides
a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links
to freely accessible online sources of law for the United
States, Canada, and Mexico. This site contains additional
links to sources of commentary and practice aids that are
available without charge (or available at a reasonable charge)
from governmental and nonprofit providers. |
| American
Society of Criminology |
The
American Society of Criminology is an international
organisation concerned with criminology, embracing scholarly,
scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the etiology,
prevention, control and treatment of crime and delinquency. |
| Bar
Council |
The
Bar Council is the regulatory and representative body for
barristers in England and Wales. It deals with qualification
and conduct rules governing barristers and those wishing to
become barristers, as well as complaints against barristers.
It also puts the Bar's view on matters of concern about the
legal system and acts as a source of information about the
Bar. This site contains information for a diverse audience,
there is information here for everyone. |
| British
and Irish Association of Law Librarians and information site |
The
British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) is
an independent and self-supporting body created to represent
the interests of legal information professionals, documentalists
and other suppliers of legal literature and reference materials
in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Their links
page looks very useful. |
| Equality
and Human Rights Commission |
The
Equality
and Human Rights Commission is a publicly funded, non-governmental
body set up under the Race Relations Act 1976 to tackle racial
discrimination and promote racial equality. It works
in both the public and private sectors to encourage fair treatment
and to promote equal opportunities for everyone, regardless
of their race, colour, nationality, or national or ethnic
origin. |
| Delia
Venables - subscription site, but gives free legal sites |
Legal
Resources in the UK and Ireland, useful for comparison with
Australian resources. |
| Institute
of Advanced Legal Studies |
The
University of London's School of Advanced Study, Institute
of Advanced Legal Studies' electronic access to global legal
information. Another useful search site for legal information. |
| The
Law Commission for England and Wales |
The
Library contains executive summaries and the full texts of
all our recent reports and consultation papers, which you
can browse and/or download. |
| Law
Society Gazette |
News,
features, opinions and law reports on UK law. |
| Law
Society UK |
The
Law Society is the professional body for solicitors in England
and Wales. It serves society by working to improve access
to the law. Services and support for solicitors are also provided.
The Law Society sets the standards that underpin the profession's
reputation as the best independent professional advisers.
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| National
Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database |
The
NCJRS (USA) allows access to summaries of more than 160,000
criminal justice publications and more than 1,500 full-text
publications, many of which can be read and copied. |
| World
Law sites |
Legal
Resources selected and annotated by the Inner Temple Library.
Access is provided to UK, European, Commonwealth and other
legal sites, together with an alphabetical index. |
| WorldLii |
WorldLii is similar to Austlii but on a worldwide scale. WorldLii provides free access to 865 legal databases from 123 countries and territories. |
| Yahoo
- Crime |
Links
to resources relating to crime including law enforcement,
criminal justice, death penalty, crime prevention, etc. |
