Westlaw
Westlaw contains a large number of individual legal databases. Legislation, cases, law reviews and journals and practice materials are provided in full text. Materials from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong and Australia are included. Australian sources include the Commonwealth Law Reports and the Federal Court Reports, as well as practice materials on trade practices, financial services and corporations law.
• It contains both journals (world journals as well) and Australian cases and legislation including unreported judgements.
Law Link – Government Catalogue
Lawlink NSW is hosted by the Attorney General’s Department of NSW. • Only for NSW, has material from Lawlink agencies as well as court and tribunals in NSW as well as other states and Federal. • NSW Legal Resources Courts & Tribunals Court Lists I Judgments I Practice Directions I Forms • Legislation & Parliament Hansard I Bills I Acts I Regulations • Other Australian Legal Resources Court & Tribunal Homepages & Judgments Legislation & Parliament Hansard I Bills I Acts I Regulations • Law Reform • International & General Legal Resources • Other Countries • Law By Subject • Legal Reference Resources • Conferences
Australian Law Online – Govt Catalogue The Attorney-General’s Department has been designated the lead agency for the law and justice portal, which is known as Australian Law Online.
Australian Law Online operates primarily as a gateway or ‘signpost’. It directs users to law and justice related information and services that are provided by government and selected non-government organisations.
A concerted effort has been made to ensure that your privacy is at all times maintained. More information about this is available through the web site’s Privacy Statement.
HEIN Online
Hein Online is a full text archive of U.S. and Canadian law journals. The emphasis is on historical material that has not previously been available online or accessible through online indexes. Although Hein Online already contains substantial holdings, new titles are constantly being added and the depth of coverage is being expanded over time. It is possible to browse the archive’s contents or search by keyword. There is also a “citation navigator” to assist in finding articles directly from a citation. All material is available as a high quality image of the original document. • There is an author and title search and also Boolean Operators • Different libraries and titles you can look under as well • Full text online
Butterworths Online Butterworths Online contains online versions of a variety of loose-leaf services and law reports, as well as unreported judgments. It also includes a legal encyclopedia (Halsbury’s Laws of Australia), a words and phrases dictionary (Australian Legal Words and Phrases), a current awareness service (Australian Current Law), a case citator (CaseBase) and various statute annotations services.
• Case Law – Special unreported judgements folder one for each jurisdiction • Report series – some on subjects as well as on specific jurisdictions, including England report. • Lexis Nexis Legal Express - Legal Express News is selected from the premium news content of LexisNexis, and provides a number of pertinent and current Australian legal news stories • Halsbury’s Law of Australia - Regular updates keep Halsbury’s current with changes in the law. In addition, Australian Current Law, publishing monthly, shares an identical title scheme and acts as a quick updater to Halsbury’s. Halsbury’s consists of 35 looseleaf volumes covering 89 subject areas and all nine jurisdictions. To help research, Halsbury’s includes a consolidated index and consolidated tables of cases and statutes. Also available on CD and online.
• CaseBase - CaseBase is a comprehensive case citator and annotator containing over 300,000 case entries covering more than 60 Australian and overseas report series and the unreported decisions of the High Court, the Federal Court and the Supreme Courts of all Australian States and Territories and the NSW Land and Environment Court. Case entries include case details (name, date decided, judges, court and citation), parallel citations, a list of cases that have subsequently considered the case, CaseBase signals which summarise the subsequent judicial consideration the case has received, articles considering the case, judicially considered words and phrases, catchwords, digests, and, for online subscribers, a link to the full text of the decision or articles cited where available. CaseBase is also an excellent bibliographic reference, with over 13,000 catchworded and annotated article entries covering over 100 Australian and overseas legal journals. The CaseBase Signals help you to research the precedental value of the cases you rely on. Coverage of unreported decisions means you don’t have to wait until a case is reported to find out the law has changed. CaseBase’s catchwords and digests make it easy to search for recent decisions and articles on a particular area of law, and for judicial consideration of legislation and words and phrases
• Australian Current Law - For speedy and complete notification of superior court cases and legislative changes, Australian Current Law is the answer. Publishing in three parts - Reporter, Legislation and Yearbooks, Australian Current Law guarantees to keep you up to date on the latest cases and legislation in your areas of practice. The Reporter contains digests of all available judgments from the High Court, the Federal Court and the State Supreme Courts, as well as important decisions from the Family Court, AAT and other selected tribunals. Advance notification of cases is provided through My ACL Weekly and the fortnightly newsletter, ACL Express. Legislation alerts the subscriber to the latest amendments to all Acts, Regulations and other statutory instruments in all jurisdictions. The Yearbooks publish annually, consolidating all digests and legislation entries from the last year. All entries are consolidated under subject area and jurisdiction, providing a permanent reference. On CD and online, Australian Current Law gives you all the features of the hard copy plus quick searching and hypertext links to Halsbury’s Laws of Australia. In addition you can search the entire case database from 1976 and legislation database from 1991. A unique research tool, you will find exactly the case or Act you are looking for or you can scroll through all cases and legislation of interest in your chosen subject area. Australian Current Law has an identical title scheme to Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, and functions as an updater to that work.
AGIS (Attorney General Information Services)
Comprehensively indexes and abstracts articles from over 100 Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals. Selectively indexes and abstracts articles from major law journals from United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Full text coverage begins from 1999 and includes most journals. • Can search full text records only (AGIS Plus Text) • Many different libraries with different subjects such as architecture building and design, arts and entertainment, asian resources. • You can search this simultaneously with ILP and Legal Trac
Complete Legal Research System
This resource includes a case citator (Australian Case Citator - PLUS) – allows you to locate a case and all its citations and the cases it has considered and which have considered it. Covers reported cases since 1825. • Shows related proceedings, cases citing this case, cases cited in this case • Will say if it applied, consider, distinguish, follow, overrule, approve, disapprove, explain, not follow…
A digest service (The Australian Digest) - Comprehensively research case law and locate all significant cases on any current legal issue from the beginning of law reporting in Australia (1825) to the present. Each case digest starts with catchwords, so you’ll immediately know the main points of the case. This is followed by a summary of the principles for which the case is authority. Case digests include the case name, citation, historical notes referring to related proceedings, and references to articles discussing the case. The format of the Digest allows for easy updating of all titles. Each title is updated on an annual basis. Cases reported since the latest supplement can be located using the updater table in the Australian Legal Monthly Digest (see ALMD Advance for the latest unreported decisions).
A current awareness service (Australian Legal Monthly Digest) - Includes summaries of significant reported decisions and legislative developments. Features specialised tables to help you find the information you want quickly and easily.... • Case or legislation searches • Gives short case summaries
A legal encyclopedia (The Laws of Australia). It also contains reports on various aspects of ecommerce. The Lawbook Co. legal encyclopaedia provides accessible and regularly updated information on all aspects of Australian law. The service provides comprehensive analyses written by over 400 of Australia’s foremost legal experts, supported by multi-jurisdictional references to cases and legislation. The high quality commentary adds to the breadth of content, making The Laws of Australia an invaluable resource. The Laws of Australia is also available as part of the complete legal research system.
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Index to Legal Periodicals & Books indexes articles and books on a wide range of legal topics. Articles are drawn from sources including journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association journals, university publications and law reviews. Over 800 serials titles are indexed with approximately 1,000 references to books added each year. Most content is from the United States, although there is a significant amount of material from other common law jurisdictions. • Keyword, subject, title etc search • Can sort by relevance, date, journal issue, title etc • SFX functions so you can find where you can get the full text version
LegalTrac LegalTrac coverage includes articles from more than 800 legal publications, including major law reviews, bar association journals and seven legal newspapers. Coverage for many titles starts as early as 1980. The database is updated weekly.
TimeBase TimeBase provides current and repealed legislation from all Australian jurisdictions except Tasmania and the Northern Territory. References to cases and/or articles are provided from sections of an Act (where applicable).
APAIS – Australian Public Affairs Information Service Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), produced by the National Library of Australia, is a bibliographic database that indexes articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities from 1978 onwards. Source documents include a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books.
Subject coverage includes current affairs, economics, humanities, law, literature, politics and social sciences.
APAIS comprehensively indexes approximately 250 journals. Overseas sources are also scanned for material on Australian subject matter. APAIS also indexes very selectively from many other Australian journals and conference proceedings, as well as from overseas journals carrying articles with an Australian content. • Similar search to AGIS but can’t be used to do a simultaneous search with the other journals.