LEGAL LINks

Australia

ComLaw (Commonwealth Law) incorporating the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI)

ComLaw is the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney-General's Department. ComLaw is an integral part of the Australian Law Online initiative to bring low or no-cost access to the law for the community.

The Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) was established on 1 January 2005 under section 20 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 and is maintained by the Attorney-General's Department.

Australian Law Online

Australian Law Online is provided by the Australian Government to give all Australians access to Government legal information and services available nationwide. It provides listing to Commonwealth and State legal sites.

AUSTLII

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) publishes public legal information—that is, primary legal materials (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals); and secondary legal materials created by public bodies for purposes of public access (law reform and royal commission reports for example).

WebLaw

WebLaw is a cooperative subject gateway to Internet resources for Australian legal researchers. Law librarians from the participating organisations have taken responsibility for a particular subject area or areas and provide annotated records for quality Internet legal resources in this area. An academic or practitioner with expertise in the subject is involved in peer assessment of the listings. The sites are checked and updated each month. Quality control is assured because participating organisations adhere to common selection criteria and quality guidelines, as well as to the designated metadata and thesaurus schema.

Case Law

AUSTLII

Courts

Federal courts

High Court
Federal Court
Family Court
Federal Magistrates Court

Federal tribunals

Administrative Appeals Tribunal
National Native Title Tribunal

Legislation

ComLaw (Commonwealth Law) incorporating the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI)

AUSTLII

Scaleplus

SCALEplus is the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney-General’s Department. It is an integral part of the Australian Law Online initiative to bring low or no-cost access to the law for the community.

SCALEplus users please note:
Most of the material from SCALEplus, including the historical databases of repealed legislation, has been migrated to ComLaw. From 1 January 2005 all new primary and subordinate legislation that is made will be published on ComLaw/FRLI as relevant, not to SCALEplus. However, SCALEplus will continue to be available to users until all relevant material, including historical material, is migrated to ComLaw.

INTERNATIONAL

AUSTLII

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides a large index of legal web sites from around the world, which is fully searchable and well organised. The World Law index includes a special section containing ‘Other Australian Law’.

World Legal Information Institute

Over 270 databases from 48 jurisdictions in 20 countries are included in the initial release of WorldLII. Databases of case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, law journals and other materials are included.

REFERENCE

Australian Guide to Legal Citation

Published by the Melbourne University Law Review.

Law Dictionaries

www.yourDictionary.com provides the most comprehensive and authoritative portal for language and language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries and more than 250 languages.