E LAW - MURDOCH UNIVERSITY ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF LAW ISSN 1321-8247 Volume 5 Number 2 (June, 1998) Copyright E Law and/or authors File: netw52.txt ftp://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw/issues/v5n2/netw52.txt http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v5n2/netw52.html ________________________________________________________________________ NetWatch: June 1998 Anne Greenshields Librarian - Law, Murdoch University Library Australian legal sites and developments Primary Legal Materials on the Internet - Case Law, Statutes and Extrinsic Material Business Law Citation Crime and Criminology Directories and Internet tools Email Alert Service, Discussion Lists and Archives Human Rights International Law International Organisations Legal History Journals & Newspapers Medico-Legal issues Search Engines Technology and the Law Women and the Law Australian sites and developments Family Court of Australia Family Court information (pamphlets, forms, Court lists,details of recent government reports etc) and full text of 'important' judgments. The site has a translator so that it can be read in various (European) languages. URL: http://www.familycourt.gov.au National Breast Cancer Council Research and Data Reviews, Reports and Discussion Papers URL: http://www.nbcc.org.au/pages/info/resource/nbccpubs/nbccpubs.htm Pathfinders/Guides to Law Resources (University of Sydney Law School) An excellent starting point for researchers in subjects such International Law, Asia Pacific Law, Australian Health Law, Australian Labour Law, and Australian Taxation Law. URL: http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~library/pathfind.htm Queensland Legislation Reprinted acts, sessional acts from 1991 and subordinate legislation from 1991. URL: http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au Tasmanian Consolidated Legislation Acts consolidated to 1 February 1997. New legislation is provided as sessional acts. URL: http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au Victorian Supreme Court Cases AUSTLII cases of the Court of Appeal from June 1997. URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VICSC/ Western Australian Statutes are now available at two sites: State Law Publishers and AustLII. The State Law Publishers' homepage, under the heading 'products and services', includes Current Acts as well as bills from 1997 and 1998 Bills [pdf format]. Regulations should be added soon. URL: http://www.slp.wa.gov.au URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au Primary Legal Materials Canada Statutes and Regulations The Canadian Department of Justice offers access to the Consolidated Statutes and Regulations of Canada: browsable and searchable via a Folio database. Current as of August 31, 1997 at this time. URL: http://canada.justice.gc.ca/Loireg/index_en.html English Court of Appeal judgements provided by Smith Bernal Reporting Limited Transcripts of decisions from the Courts of Appeal (Civil and Criminal Divisions) and QBD (Crown Office). Coverage is varies between divisions, some from April 1996+ other since June 1997+ URL: http://www.smithbernal.com/casebase_search_frame.htm Family Court of Australia Family Court information (pamphlets, forms, Court lists,details of recent government reports etc) and full text of 'important' judgments. The site has a translator so that it can be read in various (European) languages. URL: http://www.familycourt.gov.au Law Link (NSW. Attorney Generals Department) Includes information about going to court, 'your rights', crime information and statistics and information for people with disabilities. URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/ Queensland Legislation Reprinted acts, sessional acts from 1991 and subordinate legislation from 1991. URL: http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au Tasmanian Consolidated Legislation Acts consolidated to 1 February 1997. New legislation is provided as sessional acts. URL: http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au United Nations Documentation: Research Guide from the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.htm US Government Documents Ready Reference Collection--CU DSC Columbia University Library's Documents Service Center provides this site, a directory to 135 government documents (almost all of which are hyperlinked) in fourteen areas, including agriculture, business, economics and labor, crime, government and law, and transportation. URL: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/dsc/readyref.html Victorian Supreme Court Cases AUSTLII cases of the Court of Appeal from June 1997. URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VICSC/ Western Australian Statutes are now available at two sites: State Law Publishers and AustLII. The State Law Publishers' homepage, under the heading 'products and services', includes Current Acts as well as bills from 1997 and 1998 Bills [pdf format]. Regulations should be added soon. URL: http://www.slp.wa.gov.au URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au World Court Digest - digested views of the International Court of Justice. The Digest covers 1986-1995, at present. The digest can be browsed or searched, and a case decision and opinion summary can be found at the end of the table of contents. URL: http://www.virtual-institute.de/en/wcd/wcd_home.cfm Business Law Business Law Today full text articles and news from the American Bar Association. URL: http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/bltnew.html Citation Australian Guide to Legal Citation available for downloading, compressed files. URL: http://rumpole.law.unimelb.edu.au/mulr/!aglc.htm The Universal Legal Citation Project: A Draft User Guide to the AALL Universal Case Citation and Universal Statutory Citation URL: http://www.aallnet.org/committee/citation/case.html URL: http://www.aallnet.org/committee/citation/statutory.html Crime and Criminology Law Link (NSW. Attorney Generals Department) Includes information crime information and statistics. URL: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/ Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States of America. URL: http://www.hrw.org/reports98/police/index.htm Students' Reports of School Crime: 1989 and 1995 (USA. National Center for Education Statistics) URL: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/crime/index.html Uniform Crime Reports 1997 Preliminary Annual Release (FBI. US. Department of Justice) (pdf format) URL: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucrann97.htm Directories and Internet tools International Organization Web Sites Compiled by the Union of International Associations selected from the Yearbook of International Organizations. An excellent resource destined to be a hit with researchers. Useful arrangement and comprehensive explanations of codes and catagorisations with over 5,000 links. URL: http://www.uia.org/website.htm LAWLINKS UK based directory (Templeman Library) URL: http://www.ukc.ac.uk/library/netinfo/intnsubg/lawlinks.htm Pathfinders/Guides to Law Resources (University of Sydney Law School) An excellent starting point for researchers in subjects such International Law, Asia Pacific Law, Australian Health Law, Australian Labour Law, and Australian Taxation Law. URL: http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~library/pathfind.htm United Nations Documentation: Research Guide from the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.htm Virtual Chase a research assistant and guide to internet resources. URL: http://www.virtualchase.com/ Email Alert Service, Discussion List and Archives InSITE-L (Cornell Law Library) is current awareness service listing new legal sites, it is archived and searchable. As an announcement-only list, InSITE-L does not accept postings from subscribers. To subscribe to InSITE-L, send the following request to: listproc@cornell.edu and send the message Subscribe InSITE-L [YourFirstName] [YourLastName] URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/library The TechnoLawyer. Part magazine, part news broadcast, and part radio talk show, The TechnoLawyer is an interactive Internet publication for legal professionals interested in using technology to increase their productivity, reduce client costs, and become more competitive. URL: http://www.technolawyer.com Human Rights Annual Review of Population Law_: Database on Law and Population [Java] A searchable database of legislation and government sources and judical decisions relating to population policies, reproductive health, women's rights, and related topics. URL: http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/annual_review/ Human Rights Watch Reports and news in relation to human rights abuses. URL: http://www.hrw.org/ Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States of America. URL: http://www.hrw.org/reports98/police/index.htm International Law Annual Review of Population Law_: Database on Law and Population [Java] A searchable database of legislation and government sources and judical decisions relating to population policies, reproductive health, women's rights, and related topics. URL: http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/annual_review/ The Agreement Reached in the Multi-party Negotiations--Proposed Northern Ireland Peace Agreement URL: http://www.nio.gov.uk/agreement.htm International Organization Web Sites Compiled by the Union of International Associations selected from the Yearbook of International Organizations. An excellent resource destined to be a hit with researchers. Useful arrangement and comprehensive explanations of codes and catagorisations. URL: http://www.uia.org/website.htm World Court Digest - digested views of the International Court of Justice. The Digest covers 1986-1995, at present. The digest can be browsed or searched, and a case decision and opinion summary can be found at the end of the table of contents. URL: http://www.virtual-institute.de/en/wcd/wcd_home.cfm International Organisations International Organization Web Sites Compiled by the Union of International Associations selected from the Yearbook of International Organizations. An excellent resource destined to be a hit with researchers. Useful arrangement and comprehensive explanations of codes and catagorisations. URL: http://www.uia.org/website.htm United Nations Documentation: Research Guide from the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/spechr.htm WTO Policy documents, media releases and topics related to International Trade and Intellectual Property. URL: http://www.wto.org/index.htm Legal History Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England Henry of Bracton's Thirteenth Century work originally titled De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliae is now available courtesy of the Harvard University's Ames Foundation and Law Library, and Cornell University's Legal Information Institute: In English and Latin. URL: http://bracton.law.cornell.edu/bracton/Common/index.html The Code of Hammurabi 2500 BC The Code of Hammurabi Translated by L. W. King With commentary from Charles F. Horne, Ph.D. (1915) and The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910- by the Rev. Claude Hermann Walter Johns, M.A. Litt.D. The Code of Hammurabi URL: http://www.lawresearch.com/v2/codeham.htm Journals & Newspapers Business Law Today full text articles and news from the American Bar Association. URL: http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/bltnew.html Contents Pages From Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals--UT Tarleton Law Library An excellent service for all students and academics URL: http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/tallons/content_search.html Federal Courts Law Review a full text journal from the Federal Magistrate Judges Association (USA). It aims at being a 'forum for the publication of legal scholarship relating to (US) federal courts and federal legislation,' and claims to be one of the few law reviews sponsored by a judicial association. URL: http://www.fedjudge.org/fclr/98index.htm Law Review Projects Sign up to receive abstracts of new law review articles by e-mail, or using the full text search to find Law Journals on the Internet. Also provides links to journal home pages many of which include a contents page of the latest journal URL: http://www.lawreview.org./ Stanford Technology Law Review full text articles in plain text and pdf format. URL: http://stlr.stanford.edu Medico-Legal issues National Breast Cancer Council Research and Data Reviews, Reports and Discussion Papers URL: http://www.nbcc.org.au/pages/info/resource/nbccpubs/nbccpubs.htm Search Engines A Multiple Resource Research Tool Section from LawGuru.com. Worth taking at.. URL: http://www.lawguru.com/multisearch/multisearch.html Technology and the Law Stanford Technology Law Review full text articles in plain text and pdf format. URL: http://stlr.stanford.edu The TechnoLawyer. Part magazine, part news broadcast, and part radio talk show, The TechnoLawyer is an interactive Internet publication for legal professionals interested in using technology to increase their productivity, reduce client costs, and become more competitive. URL: http://www.technolawyer.com Women and the Law Annual Review of Population Law_: Database on Law and Population [Java] A searchable database of legislation and government sources and judical decisions relating to population policies, reproductive health, women's rights, and related topics. URL: http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/annual_review/ ============================================================= Document author: Anne Greenshields, Law Librarian, Murdoch University Library Document creation: July, 1998 HTML document preparation: Anne Greenshields, Law Librarian, Murdoch University Library HTML last modified: Modified by: Brett Lester, Assistant Technical Editor, E Law Authorised by: Archie Zariski, Technical Editor, E Law Disclaimer & Copyright Notice (c) 1998 Murdoch University URL: http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/