NetWatch, December 1996

Author:	Anne Greenshields Librarian - Law, Murdoch University
Subjects:	Internet computer network (Other articles) Legal research (Other articles)
Issue:	Volume 3, Number 4 (December 1996)
Category:	NetWatch

• Australian legal sites and developments
• Primary Legal Materials Case Law, Statutes and Extrinsic Material

• Civil Procedure
• Entertainment and the Law
• Environmental Law
• European Sites
• Family Law
• Gender and the Law
• Indigenous Studies
• Intellectual Property
• International Law
• Labour Law
• Library and Publishing information
• New Search Engines and Directories
• Reports
• Taxation
• Technology and the Law

Australian sites and developments

• Aboriginal Economic Development in Western Australia. A Framework For Responsive Government Services & Programs Draft Strategy. For Public Comment July 1996.
  URL: http://www.wa.gov.au/commerce/aed/drafstrt.html

• AGPS Australian Government Publishing Service provides the Commonwealth of Australia Government On Line Directory Find out who does what in the Australian Federal Government and how to contact them. Proliferates with abbreviations, not as user friendly as it could be, but a good starting point.
  URL: http://www.agps.gov.au/

• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade International Organisations Branch, Human Rights and Indigenous Issues Section (Australia)
  This site includes:
  • Human Rights and Indigenous Issues Newsletter: a quarterly newsletter which outlines the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's activities in the field of human rights and indigenous issues
  • Media Releases relating to the Establishment of Asia-Pacific Forum and Workshops on Human Rights Institutions
  • the Larraki Declaration, made at the First Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop of National Human Rights Institutions held in Darwin, Australia, 8 - 10 July 1996.
    URL: http://www.dfat.gov.au/dfat/dept/hr/hrhome.html
• Experimental Government of Western Australia X.500 Directory (Western Australia)

  Information provided in the directory on each agency includes:

  Departmental email (if exists)

  Departmental url (if exists)

  Chief executive

  Primary public contact

  Program Statements in Word format (if exists)

  
  URL: http://134.7.150.66/

• The Ministry of Justice Law Almanac Lists court dates, registered legal practitioners, practice directions from the Supreme and District Courts, and more. (Western Australia)
  URL http://www.moj.wa.gov.au/almanac.htm

• The Parliament of New South Wales Quick and easy access to the most comprehensive and up-to-date bank of information about the Parliament, its Members, operations and activities. Includes Hansard and various parliamentary publications. To access Hansard you need Adobe Acrobat (links for downloading software are prov ided).
  URL: http://waratah.www.nsw.gov.au/parliament/

• Workplace relations reforms information on the new bill and associated materials. (Australia)
  URL http://www.nla.gov.au/dir/reforms/menu.htm

Primary Legal Materials Case Law, Statutes and Extrinsic Material

• The International Court of Justice. Site provided by Cornell University, includes links for full text of ICJ decisions. As yet only 4 decisions from 1996 are mounted, there are plans to mount all of 1996 and 1997 (as they are decided).
  URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/icj/

• The Parliament of New South Wales Quick and easy access to the most comprehensive and up-to-date bank of information about the Parliament, its Members, operations and activities. Includes Hansard and various parliamentary publications. To access Hansard you need Adobe Acrobat (links for downloading software are prov ided).
  URL: http://waratah.www.nsw.gov.au/parliament/

• SUPREME COURT INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN JUDGEMENTS FROM USA, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA (and the UK House of Lords soon).
  

  A free service, Supreme Court international Bulletin (SCiB) will provide a free weekly email bulletin in containing summaries of all new significant decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court of Canada, High Court of Australia SCiB enables you to be completely up-to-date with the law in the major Common Law jurisdictions at no cost.

  Hypertext links to the full-text judgements enable you to view or download the full decision in seconds.

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• (Switzerland)The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation Description of the Swiss Federal Administration, Content of Parliament Debates, actual legal developments (e.g. revision of the Swiss Constitution, Inte rnet report of the Government) etc.
  URL: http://www.admin.ch/

• (United Kingdom) Hansard (House of Commons Debates) Begins 23 October 1996. Includes debates and written answers. (United Kingdom)
  URL: http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm/cmhansrd.htm

• (United Kingdom) Lords Hansard full text database menu. Begins 10th June 1996 up to yesterday. Today's text will be made available at 9.00 a.m. tomorr ow. Includes links to debates and links.
  URL http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/home.htm

Civil Procedure

• Lord Woolf’s Inquiry Internet SiteThe Lord Woolf Inquiry has chosen the LawTechnology Centre Internet site as the repository for materials being produced by the inquiry. At this site you will find the full text of the reports and "The Way Forward", the The Lord Chancellor's strategy for implementing Lord Woolf's review of the procedures of the civil courts.
  URL: http://ltc.law.warwick.ac.uk/woolf/

• The Bureau LAW advice for musicians relating to contractual matters. Includes issues which should be addressed in contracts between Artists and Managers, Record Contracts and Music Publishing agreements. (U SA)
  URL http://www.arkangel.com/law/

• Entertainment Law Resources for Television, Film and Multimedia Producers (USA)
  URL http://www.laig.com/law/entlaw/

• Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)Articles and press releases related to global environmental issues. (USA)
  URL http://www.igc.apc.org/ciel/

European Sites

• Council of Europe, a international organisation coping with issues related to democracy, education, human rights, culture, and other related topics.
  URL http://www.coe.fr/

• COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
  URL: The Court: http://europa.eu.int/cj/en/index.htm

• Proceedings of the Court of Justice 16 September 1996 onwards.
  URL: Proceedings: http://europa.eu.int/cj/en/act/index.htm

• European Information Association Europe on the Internet. A selection of key sites on the Internet providing European Union and related information. Mounted at the University of Hull, supported by the European Documentation Centre, University of Wales, Cardiff.
  URL: http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/lbsebd/eia_html/access1.htm

• (Switzerland)The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation Description of the Swiss Federal Administration, Content of Parliament Debates, actual legal developments (e.g. revision of the Swiss Constitution, Inte rnet report of the Government) etc.
  URL: http://www.admin.ch/

• (United Kingdom)Hansard (House of Commons Debates) Begins 23 October 1996. Includes debates and written answers. (United Kingdom)
  URL: http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm/cmhansrd.htm

Family Law

• Divorced from Justice The only website created for legal consumers who want to learn the inside workings of Divorce Court (USA).
  URL http://www.divorcedfromjustice.com/

• GayLawNet General information and resources concerning the law as it affects a gay or lesbian lifestyle.
  URL http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/3181/

• The World Wide Web Virtual Library INDIGENOUS STUDIES Geographic pointers.
  URL: http://www.halcyon.com/FWDP/wwwvl/indig-vl.html

Intellectual Property

• WIPO: BASIC PROPOSAL FOR THE SUBSTANTIVE PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN RESPECT OF DATABASES TO BE CONSIDERED BY THE DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE. Selected Articles, Testimonies, and other documents on the Database Extract Rights Proposal.
  URL: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/wipo6.html
• More comments on the WIPO proposals at Digital Future Coalition
  URL: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/wipo6.htm

• United Nations Peacekeeping Bibliography
  URL http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/pkeep.htm

• Workplace relations reforms information on the new bill and associated materials. (Australia)
  URL http://www.nla.gov.au/dir/reforms/menu.htm

• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Charles W. Bailey, Jr. University of Houston Libraries.
  This bibliography presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks.
  URL: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

• Journal of Internet Cataloging (JIC) Although this is not an Internet Journal, its table of contents includes abstracts which are in them selves interesting to read.
  URL: http://jic.libraries.psu.edu/
  URL: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

New Search Engines and Directories

• LawGuru.com - Home Page More than 160 legal related search tools and engines assembled onto one page/directory. A great starting point for research into US law. The structure allows focused research in to specific jurisdictions.
  URL: http://www.lawguru.com/index.html

• The Legal Pad a Searchable Index of Legal Related Internet Resources Including Law Schools, Law Firms, Lists of Other Legal Resources on the Internet and Legal Clip-Art. (USA)
  URL: http://legal-pad.com/

• Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research A very extensive listing of search engines attached to the US Supreme Court and Circuit Courts, Legislation and Regulation, and other useful links.
  URL: http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/

• Government.direct A Green Paper (UK)
  A prospectus for the Electronic Delivery of Government Services in the United Kingdom. It doesn't contain a separate legal section but legal issues cannot be ignored especially in relation to data protection and user authentication.
  URL: http://www.open.gov.uk/citu/papers/electdel/cont.htm

Taxation

• The Price of Civilization Project: Taxation in War and Depression 1933-1945.
  The Price of Civilization Project is a research project on the history of US federal taxation policy. The site republishes important documents and images in this history.
  URL: http://www2.tax.org/taxhistory

• Architecture For Access To Government Information", prepared by the Information Management Steering Committee-Technical Group (IMSC-TG) (Australia)
  URL http://www.adfa.oz.au/DOD/imsc/imsctg/imsctg1a.htm

• CYBER-RIGHTS AND CYBER-LIBERTIES: Materials related to Internet and the Law (UK)
  URL http://www.leeds.ac.uk/law/pgs/yaman/yaman.htm