E LAW - MURDOCH UNIVERSITY ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF LAW ISSN 1321-8247 Volume 6 Number 2 (June, 1999) Copyright E Law and/or authors File: netw62.txt ftp://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw/issues/v6n2/netw62.txt http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v6n2/netw62.html ________________________________________________________________________ NetWatch: June 1999 Anne Greenshields Librarian - Law, Murdoch University Library Australian legal sites and developments Primary Legal Materials on the Internet - Case Law, Statutes and Extrinsic Material Advertising Law Asian Sites Children and the Law Civil Rights Copyright Criminal Law Directories and Guides Ethics Family Law Financial Institutions Human Rights International Law Journals, Essays & Newspapers Law Reform Legal History Legal Practice Media and the Law Australian sites and developments AustLII hosts all Australian leglislation and case law from all states (WA added only in July 1999) URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au Australian Bureau of Statistics selected statistics in full text, ordering options provided URL: http://www.abs.gov.au/ Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899 Published by the Division of Law Macquarie University. Decisions from of the Supreme Court of New South Wales handed down prior to 1900. All decisions in this database have been selected and edited by Bruce Kercher, Division of Law, Macquarie University. The database is under construction and with new decisions being added over the year. Access into the database is provided by a case index as well as an extensive subject index. Great source for anyone interested in Australian legal history. The site is also mirrored at AustLII and can be accessed through their search engine. URL: http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/ URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/special/nswsc/pre1900/ Legal Briefing Australian Government: Topical issues URL: http://ags.gov.au/publications/briefings/index.html Parliament of New South Wales Bills [pdf] URL: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/gi/billist9.html Parliament of South Australia: Hansard and Legislation URL: http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/index.htm Parliament of Victoria: Hansard, Bills and Legislation URL: http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au Queensland Consolidated Legislation on AustLII URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/ Queensland Consolidated Regulations on austLII URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_reg/ Primary Legal Materials on the Internet Courts of Fiji Decisions including: Magistrates Court, High Court, and the Supreme Court, are now available at AustLII. Selected decisions date from 1962. URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/fj/cases/FJC/ URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899 Published by the Division of Law Macquarie University. Decisions from of the Supreme Court of New South Wales handed down prior to 1900. All decisions in this database have been selected and edited by Bruce Kercher, Division of Law, Macquarie University. The database is under construction and with new decisions being added over the year. Access into the database is provided by a case index as well as an extensive subject index. Great source for anyone interested in Australian legal history. The site is also mirrored at AustLII and can be accessed through their search engine. URL: http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/ URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/special/nswsc/pre1900/ Famous American Trials Documents, images and commentary of 12 famous American trials. URL: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm Parliament of South Australia: Hansard and Legislation URL: http://www.pics.sa.gov.au/index.htm Queensland Consolidated Legislation on AustLII URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/ Queensland Consolidated Regulations on austLII URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_reg/ Supreme Court of Canada Information about the Court, relevant act and rules, judgments of the Supreme Court (SCR 1989 +) and the Charter Collection of Decisions relative to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1983-1995). URL: http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/ Supreme Court of the Philippines Information about the court and full text of decisions Dec 1998+ URL: http://www.supremecourt.gov.ph/ Tasmanian Legislation URL: http://beta.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/tas/consol_act/ Advertising Law Advertising Law Internet Site Articles and links to related resources in the US URL: http://www.webcom.com/~lewrose/ Asian Sites Philippine On-Line Legal Resources - full text of many Philippine statutes links to the Philippine Supreme Court decisions. URL: http://www.chanrobles.com Supreme Court of the Philippines Information about the court and full text of decisions Dec 1998+ URL: http://www.supremecourt.gov.ph/ Children and the law International Child Labor Program Discussion and reports many available in pdf format. URL: http://www.dol.gov/dol/ilab/public/programs/iclp/ Civil Rights Racial Profiling in America -- American Civil Liberties Union. URL: http://www.aclu.org/profiling/index.html Copyright Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright. Relevant to UK but the questions have more general application. Prepared by Arts and Humanities Data Service and the Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) URL: http://ahds.ac.uk/bkgd/copyrightfaq.html Criminal Law Drugs and Crime Facts. US data on violations related to illegal drugs and their effect on crime rates, law enforcement, courts, and corrections from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and non-BJS sources (USA). URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dcf/contents.htm ASIL guide to electronic resources for international criminal law (American Society for International Law) URL: http://www.asil.org/resource/crim1.htm Criminal Victimization 1998: Changes 1997-98 with Trends 1993-98 US Department of Justice (USDOJ) Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that the rate of violent and property crime has fallen to their lowest rates since 1973 when the survey began. [pdf] URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cv98.htm United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: Milosevic & Others Case. Documents relevant to the International Tribunal. URL: http://www.un.org/icty/special/index.html URL: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/icty/icty.html Although not strictly relevant to criminal law it is fascinating to see the "interest", or rather the lack of interest in the action in Kosovo as stated by the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia URL: http://www.smip.sv.gov.yu/ World Justice Information Network (new address) URL: http://www.wjin.net/ Directories and Guides The Internet Law Library from LawGuru.com an excellent and simple way access US primary materials URL: http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/index.html Ethics American Legal Ethics Library This digital library contains both the codes or rules setting standards for the professional conduct of lawyers and commentary on the law governing lawyers, organized on a [US] state by state basis (Legal Information Institute) URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/ Family Law Losing Health Insurance Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform. A report from Families USA. Full text in pdf. URL: http://www.familiesusa.org/uninten.htm URL: http://www.familiesusa.org/about.htm Financial Institutions Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (USA) Statistical and legal information related to the banking industry URL: http://www.fdic.gov/index.html Human Rights European Roma Rights Center URL: http://errc.org/ International Child Labor Program Discussion, statistics and reports many available in pdf format. URL: http://www.dol.gov/dol/ilab/public/programs/iclp/ International Organization for Migration Significant documents in the area of migrants rights and trafficking in migrants. URL: http://www.iom.int/ The Nikor Project Dedicated to the nearly twelve million victims ruthlessly destroyed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. A site supporting research into the Holocaust. Links to summaries and extracts from the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) as well as to full text of the trial and supporting documents from The Trial of Adolf Eichmann URL: http://www.nizkor.org/ URL: http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/ International Law ASIL guide to electronic resources for international criminal law (American Society for International Law) URL: http://www.asil.org/resource/crim1.htm International Crisis Group Political and ethnic conflict is current crisis situations are analysised. Crisis in Kosovo, Central Africa, Bosnia-Hertzegovina, Algeria, Cambodia have all been reported on. (The reports are slow to download.) URL: http://www.crisisweb.org/icghome.htm International Organization for Migration Significant documents in the area of migrants rights and trafficking in migrants. URL: http://www.iom.int/ Project on International Courts and Tribunals The Project's mission is "to address the legal, institutional and financial issues arising from the multiplication of international courts and tribunals." Much of it is still under construction but the "synoptic chart portrays the present and potential make-up of the international judiciary" shows its potential. URL: http://www.pict-pcti.org Question of East Timor UN site URL: http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/etimor.htm ReliefWeb "The purpose of this effort is to strengthen the response capacity of the humanitarian relief community through the timely dissemination of reliable information on prevention, preparedness and disaster response". Disasters include Kosovo crisis and Hurricane Mitch. (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.) URL: http://wwwnotes.reliefweb.int/ United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: Milosevic & Others Case. Documents relevant to the International Tribunal. URL: http://www.un.org/icty/special/index.html URL: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/icty/icty.html Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (A different view of events..) URL: http://www.smip.sv.gov.yu/ Journals, Essays & Newspaper American Journal of Comparative Law Current Issue on line, also the index to the entire series Vol 1 - 45 URL: http://comparativelaw.org/journal.html Contents pages of lastest issues of Butterworths Australian legal journals. URL: http://www.butterworths.com.au/journalcontents/journals_index.htm First Monday - peer reviewed internet journal. URL: http://firstmonday.org/ Joystick — Scandinavian Netjournal of the Sociology of Law URL: http://www.soc.lu.se/joystick/ Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture University of Albany, NY (USA) URL: http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/ Law News Summary of current legal news sources as well as full text articles on many issues (US focus) URL: http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/ Legal Briefing Australian Government: Topical issues URL: http://ags.gov.au/publications/briefings/index.html Mountbatten Journal of Legal Studies 1997+ The MJLS is a fully referred journal published by the Law Faculty at Southampton Institute twice a year. Articles are available in html and pdf format. URL: http://www.solent.ac.uk/law/ New York University Law Review URL: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/lawreview/index.html Law Reform The Law Reform Database indexes more than 6000 law reform materials from common law jurisdictions around the world. (British Columbia Law Institute.) Legal History A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873 US Library of Congress's American Memory Collections. URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html Early Manuscripts at Oxford University. Scanned images of ancient, medieval, and Celtic manuscripts - 30 are available at the moment, including some medieval legal texts. (These are large JPEG images and may take some time to download.) URL: http://image.ox.ac.uk/ Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899 Published by the Division of Law Macquarie University. Decisions from of the Supreme Court of New South Wales handed down prior to 1900. All decisions in this database have been selected and edited by Bruce Kercher, Division of Law, Macquarie University. The database is under construction and with new decisions being added over the year. Access into the database is provided by a case index as well as an extensive subject index. Great source for anyone interested in Australian legal history. The site is also mirrored at AustLII and can be accessed through their search engine. URL: http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/ URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/special/nswsc/pre1900/ Famous American Trials Documents, images and commentary of 12 famous American trials. URL: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm Legal Practice College of Law a subsidary of the Law Society of New South Wales. It aims to provide programs and services "to improve by education the quality of legal services to the Australian community." URL: http://www.collaw.edu.au/ Media and the Law Communications Media Center at New York Law School. 'This system provides statutory, regulatory, judicial and scholarly materials in the fields of communication, information and media' relevant to the US. URL: http://www.cmcnyls.edu/default.html-ssi