E LAW - MURDOCH UNIVERSITY ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF LAW ISSN 1321-8247 Volume 6 Number 4 (December, 1999) Copyright E Law and/or authors File: netw64.txt ftp://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw/issues/v6n4/netw64.txt http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v6n4/netw64.html ________________________________________________________________________ NetWatch December 1999 Anne Greenshields Librarian - Law, Murdoch University Library ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Australian & New Zealand legal sites and developments * Primary Legal Materials on the Internet - Case Law, Statutes and Extrinsic Material * Asian Sites * Journals, Essays & Newspapers * Children and the Law * Law Reform * Corporate Law * Legal Education * Criminal law and criminology * Legal Publishers issues * Reference works * Directories and Guides * Tax * Environmental Law * Technology and the Law * Human Rights * Torts * Industrial Law * Women and the Law * Intellectual Property * Misc: non-legal sites * International Law Australian and New Zealand sites and developments Auckland District Law Society : a good starting point for finding New Zealand legal resources URL: http://www.adls.org.nz/links.html Australian Virtual Centre for Women is part of the Law National Womens Justice Coalition. This site provides extensive links and resources as well as the foundation for discussion forums. URL: http://www.nwjc.org.au/avcwl/ URL: http://www.nwjc.org.au/index.html Before the High Court published by the Sydney Law Review provides comment on selected cases before the High Court. URL: http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~slr/bhc.htm Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation (University of Melbourne). The purpose of the website is to provide a free valuable resource for judges and the legal community and, in particular, to assist in achieving consistency of approach between courts following Re Wakim. Established in September 1999, with the support of the State Supreme Courts and the Federal Court. It contains only selected decisions before that date. URL: http://cclsr.law.unimelb.edu.au/judgments/ Cocos Keeling and Christmas Island legislation on SCALEplus. "At the moment, this is consolidated legislation only, but numbered Ordinances and Regulations will be available in the new year." URL: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/cocosord/browse/TOC.htm URL: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/chrisord/browse/TOC.htm District Court of Queensland Decisions on AustLII 1999- URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QDC/ Industry guides to the GST, Australian Taxation Office URL: http://www.taxreform.ato.gov.au/taxhome/index.htm Inquiry into Business Taxation Reform Senate Finance and Public Administration References Committee (Australia) Nov 1999. URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/fapa_ctte/btr/index.htm Law Australia Online a directory of Australian legal information available on both free and commercial internet sites. URL: http://www.lao.com.au/ Our Culture, Our Future: Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights. The Report was written and Researched by Terri Janke, Principal Consultant, Michael Frankel & Company, Solicitors under commission by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). Full report on line or in pdf. URL: http://www.icip.lawnet.com.au/ New South Wales Law Reform Commission reports and decisions 1995+ URL; http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc Parliamentary Handbook: Parliament of Australia Library URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/handbook/index.htm Planning and Environment Court of Queensland Decisions on AustLII 1999- URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QPEC/ Primary Legal Materials on the Internet Cocos Keeling and Christmas Island legislation on SCALEplus. "At the moment, this is consolidated legislation only, but numbered Ordinances and Regulations will be available in the new year." URL: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/cocosord/browse/TOC.htm URL: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/chrisord/browse/TOC.htm District Court of Queensland Decisions on AustLII 1999- URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QDC/ HUDOC - Human Rights Documentation case law of bodies established under the European Convention on Human Rights (European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights, and the Committee of Ministers) URL: http://www.dhcour.coe.fr/hudoc/ Planning and Environment Court of Queensland Decisions on AustLII 1999- URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QPEC/ ELVIL-European Legislative Virtual Library a joint project of Stockholm University, De Montfort University (United Kingdom), and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain). Indexes legislation from the European, Swedish and English parliaments. Provides an index to European government resources. URL: http://muffin.indexdata.dk/magnus/eng/home/home.zap?lang=eng Asian Sites Taiwan Documents Project: "The Project explores Taiwan's international status and relations and serves as a depository for (full-text) documents relating to Taiwan." URL: http://newtaiwan.virtualave.net/ Children and the law DOJ for Kids and Youth (USA Department of Justice). Includes guides to US law and 'Internet Dos and Donts" URL: http://www.usdoj.gov/kidspage/ Information Clearing House on Children is a "project of the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law. The primary goal of the Information Clearinghouse on Children is to stimulate more extensive and accurate public discussion on emerging issues affecting children's well-being, health and safety." Reports and other full text documents. URL: http://www.acusd.edu/childrensissues/ Corporate Law Business Guides produced by Lex Mundi members for their respective jurisdictions. URL: http://www.hg.org/guides.html URL: http://www.lexmundi.org/ Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation (University of Melbourne). The purpose of the website is to provide a free valuable resource for judges and the legal community and, in particular, to assist in achieving consistency of approach between courts following Re Wakim. Established in September 1999, with the support of the State Supreme Courts and the Federal Court. It contains only selected decisions before that date. URL: http://cclsr.law.unimelb.edu.au/judgments/ CyberSecuritiesLaw.com an extensive site discussing Securities Regulation and the Internet. A well laid out site with extensive links to securities resources and includes CyberSecuritiesLaw(tm) Tribune: News Briefs Regarding Securities Regulation and the Internet. URL: http://www.cybersecuritieslaw.com/ URL: http://www.cybersecuritieslaw.com/news.htm Insolvency and Bankruptcy directory of resources from the Project DIAL (Development of the Internet for Asian Law) at AustLII URL:http://beta.austlii.edu.au/links/World/Subject_Index/Insolvency_and_Bankruptcy/* Secured Transactions - directory of resources from the Project DIAL (Development of the Internet for Asian Law) at AustLII URL: http://beta.austlii.edu.au/links/World/Subject_Index/Secured_Transactions/ Criminal Law Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Reports URL: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr.htm Crime in the United States, 1998 [.pdf] URL: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/98cius.htm UNICRI-United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Institute The site includes directories, insitutue information and databases such as the World Directory of Criminological Resources, indexing 470 institutes in appproximately 70 countries, and the LMS Bibliographic Collection, which searches more than 6000 authors and 300 series. Both databases contain abstracts of articles that can be ordered. URL: http://www.unicri.it/ United States Sentencing Commission information about the commission, statistics guidelines, reports on topics such as drugs, money laundering, fraud, sex offences and mandatory minimum penalties. Most reports full text in pdf. URL: http://www.ussc.gov/ Use of Force by the Police a joint report from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) [.pdf]. Useful for anyone interested in police operations. (USA) URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/ufbponld.htm Directories and Guides Auckland District Law Society : a good starting point for finding New Zealand legal resources URL: http://www.adls.org.nz/links.html Law Australia Online a directory of Australian legal information available on both free and commercial internet sites. URL: http://www.lao.com.au/ Environmental Law Planning and Environment Court of Queensland Decisions on AustLII 1999- URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/qld/QPEC/ Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database (USA) A searchable database of summaries and full text of 150 water-related treaties. http://terra.geo.orst.edu/users/tfdd/ Human Rights Amnesty International's Annual Reports on worldwide human rights violations URL: http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ CPJ: Committee to Protect Journalists presents a review of Attacks on the Press URL: http://www.cpj.org/zinfo/aboutcpj.html URL: http://www.cpj.org/attacks/attacks_index.html Council of the European Union: First Annual Report on Human Rights. Report adopted by General Affairs Council in Luxembourg 11 Oct, 1999. The report "intends to explain how the [European] Union's headway towards integration is paralleled in the field of human rights." URL: http://ue.eu.int/pesc/human_rights/main99_en.htm For The Record: The UN Human Rights System this report summarizes the work of the United Nations on human rights issues and developments for the last year. Includes reports presented to treaty bodies, references to reports of the Spcial Representatives, Working Groups of the CHR and Special Rapportuers. Produced by Human Rights Internet in partnership with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade: a good starting point and review for researchers. URL: http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord.shtml Human Rights Watch World Report - 2000 URL: http://www.hrw.org/wr2k/ HURIDOCS-Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International.HURIDOCs "seeks to function as a decentralised network in which organisations can handle and exchange information according to their own requirements." URL: http://homepages.iprolink.ch/~huridocs/ HUDOC - Human Rights Documentation case law of bodies established under the European Convention on Human Rights (European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights, and the Committee of Ministers) URL: http://www.dhcour.coe.fr/hudoc/ International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Annual Reports and other human rights statements. Well organised collection of material in the human rights/international law area. URL: http://www.ihf-hr.org/publicat.htm UNICEF: Convention on the Rights of the Child - Tenth Anniversary. The site has been upgraded to include the convention with updated Guide, history and impact of the treaty and numerous other reports into Child Rights. URL: http://www.unicef.org/crc/ Industrial Law Employees' Compensation Appeals Board. Statutes and headnotes of decisions. (USA) URL: http://www2.dol.gov/dol/ecab/ Intellectual Property Advisory Report on the Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Bill 1999.Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (Australia) [pdf] URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/digitalagenda/inquiryindigagenbill.htm Bitlaw A guidebook to technology law issues and resources in the US by Daniel A. Tysver of Beck & Tysver, P.L.L.P. The guide is easy to use and includes sections such as Patent Law, Trademark Law, Copyright Law, Software Patents, and Internet Legal Issues. URL: http://www.bitlaw.com/index.html Alan Gahtan's Cyberlaw Encyclopedia is a legal portal for information technology, Internet protocol, and electronic commerce information on the Web. The encyclopaedia catagorizes material as statutes, cases, articles, and policy. The site is well organised and easy to use. Links focus on US, Canadian and European material. URL: http://www.gahtan.com/cyberlaw/ European Patent Office access to Official Journal documents, the European Patent Attorney Database, EPO Administrative Council decisions, Board of Appeals case law, the European Patent Register online, and EPO seminars, forms, fees, etc. Some of databases are fee-based for subscribers only. URL: http://www.european-patent-office.org/ The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Helpdesk is an IPR assistance service created by the European Commission. The site includes the IP-Wire online newsletter published monthly. URL: http://www.cordis.lu/ipr-helpdesk/en/home.html URL: http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/en/n_003_en.asp Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law Online articles and discussion, their library catalogue (in German), and list of publications. Links.to legal newsgroups, international organizations, universities, and the European Union. URL: http://www.intellecprop.mpg.de/ Our Culture, Our Future: Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights. The Report was written and Researched by Terri Janke, Principal Consultant, Michael Frankel & Company, Solicitors under commission by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). Full report on line or in pdf. URL: http://www.icip.lawnet.com.au/ International Law Amnesty International's Annual Reports on worldwide human rights violations URL: http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Annual Reports and other human rights statements. Well organised collection of material in the human rights/international law area. URL: http://www.ihf-hr.org/publicat.htm Foreign Policy international affairs journal published by the nonprofit, Washington, D.C.-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. URL: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/ Organization of African Unity "Its purposes are to promote the unity and solidarity of the African States; defend the sovereignty of members; eradicate all forms of colonialism; promote international cooperation having due regard for the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; coordinate and harmonize Member States economic, diplomatic, educational, health, welfare, scientific and defense policies." URL: http://www.oau-oua.org/ Journals, Essays & Newspaper Before the High Court published by the Sydney Law Review provides comment on selected cases before the High Court. URL: http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~slr/bhc.htm CPJ: Committee to Protect Journalists presents a review of Attacks on the Press URL: http://www.cpj.org/zinfo/aboutcpj.html URL: http://www.cpj.org/attacks/attacks_index.html Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin: Full text articles, (writen in Italian or English), links to Italian law on the Internet. An invaluable starting point for researchers in Italian Law. URL: http://www.jus.unitn.it/cardozo/home.html Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy URL: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/djglp/ Foreign Policy international affairs journal published by the nonprofit, Washington, D.C.-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. URL: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/ Harvard Jean Monnet Table of Contents Service Browse by journal title and issue journals relevant to European Integration research. Links to publishers and some abstracts are included. URL: http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/JeanMonnet/TOC/ Legal Essays a collection of essays on a wide range of topics.[pdf] URL: http://www.LegalEssays.com World Reports "written for attorneys by attorneys." Arranged by topic and by jurisdiction. URL: http://www.hg.org/currwr.html Law Reform New South Wales Law Reform Commission reports and decisions 1995+ URL; http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lrc Legal Education International Journal of Educational Technology (IJET) an international refereed journal in the field of educational technology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Western Australia. Full text articles of interest to all online educators. July 1999+ URL: http://www.ecel.uwa.edu.au/ijet/ URL: http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu/ijet/ National Centre for Legal Education: a forum for law teachers in the United Kingdom. Lists of publications, guidance notes, reports, and working papers are available. URL: http://www.law.warwick.ac.uk/ncle/ Legal Publishers Current Themis and Desktop Law services URL: http://www.LawNow.com.au excata.com URL: http://www.exacta.com Reference works Business and Tax Guides compiled by Lex Mundi members for their respective jurisdictions. URL: http://www.hg.org/guides.html URL: http://www.lexmundi.org/taxguide.html URL: http://www.lexmundi.org/ Alan Gahtan's Cyberlaw Encyclopedia is a legal portal for information technology, Internet protocol, and electronic commerce information on the Web. The encyclopaedia catagorizes material as statutes, cases, articles, and policy. The site is well organised and easy to use. Links focus on US, Canadian and European material. URL: http://www.gahtan.com/cyberlaw/ Tax Law Industry guides to the GST, Australian Taxation Office URL: http://www.taxreform.ato.gov.au/taxhome/index.htm Inquiry into Business Taxation Reform Senate Finance and Public Administration References Committee (Australia) Nov 1999. URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/fapa_ctte/btr/index.htm Tax Guides produced by Lex Mundi members for their respective jurisdictions. URL: http://www.lexmundi.org/taxguide.html URL: http://www.lexmundi.org/ Technology and the Law Bitlaw A guidebook to technology law issues and resources in the US by Daniel A. Tysver of Beck & Tysver, P.L.L.P. The guide is easy to use and includes sections such as Patent Law, Trademark Law, Copyright Law, Software Patents, and Internet Legal Issues. URL: http://www.bitlaw.com/index.html Alan Gahtan's Cyberlaw Encyclopedia is a legal portal for information technology, Internet protocol, and electronic commerce information on the Web. The encyclopaedia catagorizes material as statutes, cases, articles, and policy. The site is well organised and easy to use. Links focus on US, Canadian and European material. URL: http://www.gahtan.com/cyberlaw/ CyberSecuritiesLaw.com an extensive site discussing Securities Regulation and the Internet. A well laid out site with extensive links to securities resources and includes CyberSecuritiesLaw(tm) Tribune: News Briefs Regarding Securities Regulation and the Internet. URL: http://www.cybersecuritieslaw.com/ URL: http://www.cybersecuritieslaw.com/news.htm Electronic Frontiers Australia a non profit national organisation concerned about Australias policy and legislative efforts to impose censorship and regulation on the internet. Full text documents and suggested Codes of Practice for the internet industry support the civil rights interests of the organisation. URL: http://www.efa.org.au/ Torts Canadian Law and Tobacco a site sponsored by Canada's National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health and Health Canada. to "provide users with full access to major tobacco control laws in Canada including federal, provincial, and territorial legislation." URL: http://www.cctc.ca/ncth/docs/legislation/ URL: http://www.cctc.ca/ncth/ URL: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ Tobacco Industry Documents from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (USA) Documents are searchable and downloadable. Document collections include the Minnesota Select Set, The 4B index and the Guildford - British American Tobacco Documents. URL: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/industrydocs/index.htm Women and the Law Australian Virtual Centre for Women is part of the Law National Womens Justice Coalition. This site provides extensive links and resources as well as the foundation for discussion forums. URL: http://www.nwjc.org.au/avcwl/ URL: http://www.nwjc.org.au/index.html MISC - oddments of sites for the browser! Encyclopedia Britannica is going to start offering Britannica Online for free via the Web, supported by ad revenues. The free version will also offer the text of about 75 magazines. URL: http://www.britannica.com/ Grimm Brothers @ nationalgeographic.com [RealPlayer]. A fun site featuring 12 original tales - some are available for Real Player, all are available in text. URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/