E LAW - MURDOCH UNIVERSITY ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF LAW ISSN 1321-9147 Volume 9 Number 1 (March 2002) Copyright E Law and author File: netw91.txt ftp://law.murdoch.edu.au/pub/elaw-issues/v9n1/netw91.txt http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v9n1/netw91.html ________________________________________________________________________ NetWatch March 2002 Anne Greenshields Librarian - Law, Murdoch University Library ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Australian legal sites and developments * Primary Legal Materials on the Internet - Case Law, Statutes and Extrinsic Material * Administrative Law * Industrial Relations and Labour * Asian Sites Law * Banking & Finance * Intellectual Property * Bankruptcy * International Law * Constitutional Law * Journals, Essays & Newspapers * Corporate & Securities Law * Legal Education * Crime & Criminal Law * Migration & Refugee Law * Directories and Guides * Reference materials and Search * Dispute Resolution Engines * Environmental Law * Socioeconomic and Legal Issues * Family Law * Tax * Gender Issues * Technology and the Law * Human Rights * Torts * Women and the Law ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Australian sites and developments SCALEplus rationalization focuses on legislation of the Commonwealth and Territories. "From Monday 15 April 2002, we will be progressively removing databases in SCALEplus and by July 2002 (at the latest) we will hold only databases of the legislation of the Commonwealth and non self-governing Territories (and related material such as Bills, explanatory memoranda/statements, tables, indexes and other finding aids)." Case law remains available on individual court sites. Searching across all, or selected, case law databases continues to be available on AustLII. URL: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au 2001 Annual Review of Western Australia Courts URL: http://www.supremecourt.wa.gov.au/wa_courts/index.htm Annual Review of Insolvency & Restructuring Law 2001 from Allens Arthur Robinson (Australia) URL: http://www.aar.com.au/publications/arir/ Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Library: Publications. URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ Capsicum Spray-The Record to Date Australia (Research Note 19 2001-02) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn19.htm Corporate Insolvencies and Workers' Entitlements (Economics, Commerce and Industrial Relations Group) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/econ/insolvencies.htm The High Court and the Meaning of 'Marriage' in Section 51(xxi) of the Constitution (Research Note 17 2001-02) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/RN/2001-02/02rn17.htm How Many Shareholders Should it Take to Call a Meeting? (Research Note 18 2001-02) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/RN/2001-02/02rn18.htm Indigenous Socioeconomic Indicators, Benefits and Expenditure (Research Papers Online) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/online/indig.htm Inquiry into the Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing for Property Offences) Bill 2000 (Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee) Report and submissions. URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/reports/index.htm Media Ownership Regulation in Australia (Social Policy Group) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/sp/media_regulations.htm Transsexuals-Re Kevin and the Validity of Marriage of a Transsexual (Research Note 16 2001-02) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/RN/2001-02/02rn16.htm The Right of Self-Defence under International Law-the Response to the Terrorist Attacks of 11 September (Current Issues Brief 8 2001-02) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/CIB/2001-02/02cib08.htm Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law (University of NSW) research site with documents, links and discussion. Includes the Constitutional Law Teachers Clearing House containing course materials from some Australian Universities. URL: http://www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au URL: http://www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au/teachers-Clearing-house.html HIH Royal Commission URL: http://www.hihroyalcom.gov.au/ Law For You Plain language legal information for Australians on a range of topics (car, family, business, tax, etc). State by state arrangement of topics with links to specialist lawyers. URL: http://www.law4u.com.au WorkCover: Decisions of the Compensation Magistrate's Court (WA) / Workcover WA URL: http://www.workcover.wa.gov.au/schemeinfo/magdec/intro.cfm Workers Compensation Commission (NSW) - legislation, decisions, and guidelines for dispute settlement by mediation or arbitration. URL: http://www.wcc.nsw.gov.au Primary Legal Materials on the Internet "Kodeks" Russian legal and government documents. In Russian - the structure and arrangement appears logical to the non-Russian speaker. Probably a good starting point for legal researchers needing Russian resources. URL: http://www.kodeks.net Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute - demonstration site. Based on the AustLII model this is a site which will be invaluable for researchers interested in the Pacific Islands. The site is still in development but well worth looking at. URL: http://paclii.org.vu/ US Tax Court - decisions and court information. URL: http://www.ustaxcourt.gov/ WorkCover: Decisions of the Compensation Magistrate's Court (WA) / Workcover WA URL: http://www.workcover.wa.gov.au/schemeinfo/magdec/intro.cfm Workers Compensation Commission (NSW) - legislation, decisions, and guidelines for dispute settlement by mediation or arbitration. URL: http://www.wcc.nsw.gov.au Administrative Law European Ombudsman URL: http://www.euro-ombudsman.eu.int/ Asian Sites Global Law Review: India law & international resources. A very useful site for anyone researching Indian law and/or commercial opportunities. Many links to Government Departments as well as legal materials. URL: http://www.globallawreview.com/ "International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), an independent research organisation focusing on international and comparative environmental law issues, with a particular emphasis on India and East Africa", based in Geneva. Major topics include biodiversity, climate change, intellectual property, and human rights. Contains documents, journal abstracts and some full text articles. URL: http://www.ielrc.org/ Banking and Finance Global Banking Law Database from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. "Unofficial translations" into English of the laws of many jurisdictions covering " 35 topics derived from the Basel 25 Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision." URL: http://www.gbld.org/ Bankruptcy Annual Review of Insolvency & Restructuring Law 2001 from Allens Arthur Robinson (Australia) URL: http://www.aar.com.au/publications/arir/ Collapse of Enron: A Bibliography of Online Legal, Government and Legislative Resources. An extensive and timely guide from LLX.com series of research guides and directories. This guide "includes links to resources in the following categories: bankruptcy proceedings, litigation, agency investigations, Congressional investigations, background documents from Enron, Vinson & Elkins and Arthur Andersen, as well as news." URL: http://www.llrx.com/features/enron.htm URL: http://www.llrx.com Corporate Insolvencies and Workers' Entitlements Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Economics, Commerce and Industrial Relations Group) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/econ/insolvencies.htm URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ HIH Royal Commission (Australia) URL: http://www.hihroyalcom.gov.au/ Constitutional Law Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law (University of NSW) research site with documents, links and discussion. Includes the Constitutional Law Teachers Clearing House containing course materials from some Australian Universities. URL: http://www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au URL: http://www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au/teachers-Clearing-house.html Corporate and Security Law Collapse of Enron: A Bibliography of Online Legal, Government and Legislative Resources. An extensive and timely guide from LLX.com series of research guides and directories. This guide "includes links to resources in the following categories: bankruptcy proceedings, litigation, agency investigations, Congressional investigations, background documents from Enron, Vinson & Elkins and Arthur Andersen, as well as news." URL: http://www.llrx.com/features/enron.htm URL: http://www.llrx.com Corporate Insolvencies and Workers' Entitlements Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Economics, Commerce and Industrial Relations Group) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/econ/insolvencies.htm URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ How Many Shareholders Should it Take to Call a Meeting? Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Research Note 18 2001-02) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/RN/2001-02/02rn18.htm URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ Crime and Criminal Law Capsicum Spray-The Record to Date Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Library: Publications. (Research Note 19 2001-02) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/RN/2001-02/02rn19.htm URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ Center at Georgetown University for the Study of Violence articles, discussion and links to full text journals. URL: http://www.gcsv.org/ 2001 Internet Fraud Report [.pdf] "first annual compilation of data on complaints received and referred by the IFCC to law enforcement or regulatory agencies for appropriate action." URL: http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/strategy/IFCC_2001_AnnualReport.pdf URL: http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp Directories and Guides Collapse of Enron: A Bibliography of Online Legal, Government and Legislative Resources. An extensive and timely guide from LLX.com series of research guides and directories. URL: http://www.llrx.com/features/enron.htm URL: http://www.llrx.com Finding US Court Opinions On The Web a useful directory of US Court decisions from the National Law Journal URL: http://www.nlj.com/special/courts.shtml FLAG Foreign Law Guide Project "A collaborative Internet gateway to the holdings of foreign, international and comparative law in UK universities and national libraries". URL: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/flag.htm Guide to Country Research for Refugee Status Determination. URL: http://www.llrx.com/features/rsd2.htm India Law & International Resources. A very useful site for anyone researching Indian law and/or commercial opportunities. Many links to Government Departments as well as legal materials. URL: http://www.globallawreview.com/ Internet Archive an extensive and ambitious site building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The aim is to offer "permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format." Perfect for locating Internet documents which have "vanished". URL: http://www.archive.org/ Israeli - Palestinian Conflict - directory of resources to consult URL: http://www.plsinfo.org/getanswers/webliographies/israelpalestine.htm Law of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Web Based Resources URL: http://www.llrx.com/features/pacific2.htm SCADplus directory of European Union reports and activities. URL: http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/ Dispute Resolution Workers Compensation Commission (NSW) - legislation, decisions, and guidelines for dispute settlement by mediation or arbitration. URL: http://www.wcc.nsw.gov.au Environmental Law "International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), an independent research organisation focusing on international and comparative environmental law issues, with a particular emphasis on India and East Africa", based in Geneva. Major topics include biodiversity, climate change, intellectual property, and human rights. Contains documents, journal abstracts and some full text articles. URL: http://www.ielrc.org/ Family Law The High Court and the Meaning of 'Marriage' in Section 51(xxi) of the Constitution Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Research Note 17 2001-02) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/RN/2001-02/02rn17.htm URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ A Practitioner's Guide to Family Law (New South Wales Young Lawyers Family Law Committee) practice and procedure in relation to the Family Law Act 1975 and the Courts that administer the act. URL: http://www.lawsociety.com.au/yl/committees/family/family_law_handbook/ Transsexuals-Re Kevin and the Validity of Marriage of a Transsexual Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Research Note 16 2001-02) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/RN/2001-02/02rn16.htm URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ Gender Issues Transsexuals-Re Kevin and the Validity of Marriage of a Transsexual Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Research Note 16 2001-02) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/RN/2001-02/02rn16.htm URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ Women's Caucus for Gender Justice International activist site with links related to gender justice and women's rights. URL: http://www.iccwomen.org/ Human Rights Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (US Department of State) URL: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/ Inquiry into the Human Rights (Mandatory Sentencing for Property Offences) Bill 2000 (Australia. Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee) Report and submissions. URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/reports/index.htm "International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), an independent research organisation focusing on international and comparative environmental law issues, with a particular emphasis on India and East Africa", based in Geneva. Major topics include biodiversity, climate change, intellectual property, and human rights. Contains documents, journal abstracts and some full text articles. URL: http://www.ielrc.org/ Refugee Women in Development (RefWID), Inc an awareness and activist site "focusing on refugee, displaced, and returnee women in the United States and overseas". Full text articles and details of ongoing projects. URL: http://www.refwid.org/index.htm Womens Human Rights Resources, provides information on international women's human rights through structured links and through a Womens Rights Resource Database. (University of Toronto, Canada) URL: http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/mainpage.htm URL: http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/whrr/index.cfm?sister=utl&CFID=314912&CFTOKEN=47939311 Indigenous Issues European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR) Discussion and commentary, news and updates on indigenous issues. URL: http://www.eniar.org/ Indigenous Socioeconomic Indicators, Benefits and Expenditure Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Research Papers Online) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/online/indig.htm URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ Industrial Relations and Labor Law Corporate Insolvencies and Workers' Entitlements Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Economics, Commerce and Industrial Relations Group) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/econ/insolvencies.htm URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ Workers Compensation Commission (NSW) - legislation, decisions, and guidelines for dispute settlement by mediation or arbitration. URL: http://www.wcc.nsw.gov.au WorkCover: Decisions of the Compensation Magistrate's Court (WA) / Workcover WA URL: http://www.workcover.wa.gov.au/schemeinfo/magdec/intro.cfm Intellectual Property Canadian Copyrights Database from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office URL: http://strategis.gc.ca/cipo/copyrights/jsp/search.jsp URL: http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/welcome/welcom-e.html Chilling Effects Clearinghouse "A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, and University of San Francisco law school clinics." US focused site aimed at helping online users understand their legal position and rights. Despite the US focus it contains valuable insights and discussion for all online users. URL: http://www.chillingeffects.org/ "International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), an independent research organisation focusing on international and comparative environmental law issues, with a particular emphasis on India and East Africa", based in Geneva. Major topics include biodiversity, climate change, intellectual property, and human rights. Contains documents, journal abstracts and some full text articles. URL: http://www.ielrc.org/ International Law FLAG Foreign Law Guide Project "A collaborative Internet gateway to the holdings of foreign, international and comparative law in UK universities and national libraries". URL: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/flag.htm Interights: 'An international human rights law centre promoting the effective use of law to protect human rights and freedoms worldwide' (UK based). Two databases International Human Rights Case Law Database and the Commonwealth Human Rights Case Law Database make it a valuable research tool for case law relating to human rights. URL: http://www.interights.org/ccl/ Israeli - Palestinian Conflict - directory of resources to consult URL: http://www.plsinfo.org/getanswers/webliographies/israelpalestine.htm Judicial Diplomacy: Chronicles and Reports on International Criminal Justice: "Reports on individuals currently indicted on charges of human rights abuses, genocide, and other international crimes, mainly under the aegis of the International Criminal Court and International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia." URL: http://www.diplomatiejudiciaire.com/UK/Home.htm The Right of Self-Defence under International Law-the Response to the Terrorist Attacks of 11 September Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Current Issues Brief 8 2001-02) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/CIB/2001-02/02cib08.htm URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ United Nations Peace Operations in 2001 URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/pub/year_review01/index.html Journals, Essays & Newspaper Judicial Diplomacy: Chronicles and Reports on International Criminal Justice: "Reports on individuals currently indicted on charges of human rights abuses, genocide, and other international crimes, mainly under the aegis of the International Criminal Court and International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia." URL: http://www.diplomatiejudiciaire.com/UK/Home.htm The Lawyers Story, Legal Narrative E-Texts from the Tarlton Law Library. Full text essays discussing lawyers in fiction and other texts. URL: http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/ Legal Education The Lawyers Story, Legal Narrative E-Texts from the Tarlton Law Library. Full text essays discussing lawyers in fiction and other texts. URL: http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/ Migration and Refugee Links The Forced Migration Online project URL: http://www.forcedmigration.org/portal/home/homepage.htm Guide to Country Research for Refugee Status Determination URL: http://www.llrx.com/features/rsd2.htm Reference materials and Search Engines Current Justices of the US Supreme Court. Includes biographical information on every US Supreme Court Justice. URL: http://oyez.nwu.edu/justices/ Electronic Journal Miner a useful tool for finding about and linking to electronic journals. Both free and subscription sites are listed. Searching and browsing are both effective means of finding the relevant journal. URL: http://ejournal.coalliance.org/ Internet Archive an extensive and ambitious site building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The aim is to offer "permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format." Perfect for locating Internet documents which have "vanished". URL: http://www.archive.org/ Scirus a search engine for finding scientific information sources. Searches both Internet sites and many journal abstracts from free and subscription sources. Purchase the article through your libraries document delivery systems. URL: http://www.scirus.com/ Socioeconomic and Legal Issues National Center on Poverty Law (USA). Articles, case law and discussion on the impact of poverty on the relationship between the state and the individual. URL: http://www.povertylaw.org/ National Council on Crime and Delinquency, is a "nonprofit organization which promotes effective, humane, fair and economically sound solutions to family, community and justice problems." Site contains articles and discussion points, US focused but of interest to non-US researchers. URL: http://www.nccd-crc.org/ Tax Tax and Accounting Sites Directory (USA) an extensive directory of links and resources for US material. URL: http://www.taxsites.com Tax Resources on the Web (USA) an extensive directory of links and resources for US material. URL: http://pages.prodigy.net/agkalman/ US Tax Court - decisions and court information. URL: http://www.ustaxcourt.gov/ Technology and the Law Cyberbanking & Law "Electronic Banking in the Internet and its legal implications ...how electronic banking works and to explain the legal framework." Selected relevant statutes and decisions published in the source language German, French, Italian, Arabic etc. URL: http://rechtsinformatik.jura.uni-sb.de/cbl/ 2001 Internet Fraud Report [.pdf] "first annual compilation of data on complaints received and referred by the IFCC to law enforcement or regulatory agencies for appropriate action." URL: http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/strategy/IFCC_2001_AnnualReport.pdf URL: http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp Media Ownership Regulation in Australia Australia. Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Social Policy Group) URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/sp/media_regulations.htm URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/ Torts The Legacy National Tobacco Documents Library offers searching, viewing, and downloading of over 20 million documents, relating to scientific research, manufacturing, marketing, advertising and sales of cigarettes, among other topics, generally dating from the 1950's to recent years. These documents represent the contents of tobacco industry websites as of July 1999; newer material will be added to this library over time." A well structured and comprehensive site, an excellent resource for any researcher. URL: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/ Women and the Law Refugee Women in Development (RefWID), Inc an awareness and activist site "focusing on refugee, displaced, and returnee women in the United States and overseas". Full text articles and details of ongoing projects. URL: http://www.refwid.org/index.htm Toolkit to End Violence Against Women from the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women (USA). Useful ideas and strategies for "increasing prevention efforts and providing better services for victims" which could be translated into many jurisdictions. URL: http://toolkit.ncjrs.org/ Women's Caucus for Gender Justice International activist site with links related to gender justice and women's rights. URL: http://www.iccwomen.org/ Womens Human Rights Resources, provides information on international women's human rights through structured links and through a Womens Rights Resource Database. (University of Toronto, Canada) URL: http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/mainpage.htm URL: http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/whrr/index.cfm?sister=utl&CFID=314912&CFTOKEN=47939311 ------------------------------------------------------------------------