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USEFUL LINKS
 
Note on the Useful Links page:
For prescribed cases and legislation please refer to the current Subject Guide. Content on the Useful Links page is provided for additional and sometimes historical research and comparison.
 
 

GOVERNMENT SITES


Australia's Legal System
- basic introduction from the Attorney General's site

NSW Links
Parliament of New South Wales 

Lawlink NSW
(NSW Attorney General's Department) 

NSW Supreme Court
NSW District Court
 
Coroners Court
Drug Court
Industrial Relations Commission
Land and Environment Court
Local Courts

NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal (ADT)
Workers Compensation Court
Dust Diseases Tribunal
Fair Trading
Victims Services

Federal links
Federal Parliament
Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Australian Industrial Relations Commission
Family Court of Australia
Federal Court of Australia
Federal Magistrates Court of Australia
High Court of Australia
Australian Human Rights Commission
Industrial Relations Court of Australia
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council

ONLINE JOURNALS AND PUBLICATIONS


Australian Guide to Legal Citation
- published by the Melbourne University Law Review
Researching Australian Law - Introductory essay by Professor Nick Pengelley, formerly law librarian at Monash University
The Australian Federal Constitution - A Guide to Net Resources
- a very comprehensive collection of web-based materials compiled by Stephen Souter, Education Faculty, University of Sydney. If it isn't here then it most likely isn't on the internet...

LEGISLATION


Acts Interpretation Act 1901
(Cth)
Australia Act 1986 (Cth)
Constitution Act 1902 (NSW)
Constitution (Com)
Consumer Claims Act 1998, (NSW)
Consumer Claims Regulation 1999 (NSW) (replealed legislation)
District Court Act 1973 (NSW)
Family Law Act 1975 (Cth)
Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth)
High Court of Australia Act 1979 (Cth)
Interpretation Act 1987 (NSW)
Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth)
Legal Profession Act 2004 (NSW)
Local Courts (Civil Claims) Act 1970 (NSW) (repealed legislation)
Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW)
Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)

CASES AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET


A-G (Com) v R: ex parte Australian Boilermakers Society (1957) 95 CLR 529
A-G (NSW) v Trethowan (1931) 44 CLR 394; [1932] 47 CLR 97
A-G (Vic) (ex rel Black) v The Commonwealth (DOGS Case) (1981) 146 CLR 559
Amalgamated Society of Engineers v Adelaide Steamship Co (Engineers Case) (1920) 28 CLR 129
Clayton v Heffron (1960) 105 CLR 214
Hilton v Wells (1985) 157 CLR 57
In re Judiciary and Navigation Acts (1921) 29 CLR 257
Kable v DPP (1996) 189 CLR 51
Mabo v State of Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1
Queensland v The Commonwealth (Second Territorial Senators Case) (1977) 139 CLR 585
R v Kirby: ex parte Boilermakers Society of Australia (Boilermakers Case) (1956) 94 CLR 254
State Government Insurance Commission v Trigwell (1979) 142 CLR 617
The Commonwealth v Tasmania (Tasmanian Dam Case) (1983) 158 CLR 1
University of Wollongong v Metwally (1984) 158 CLR 447
Victoria v The Commonwealth (Federal Roads Case) (1926) 38 CLR 399
Victoria v The Commonwealth (Petroleum and Minerals Authority Case or PMA Case) (1975) 134 CLR 81
Viskauskas v Niland (1983) 153 CLR 280
Waterside Workers Federation of Australia v J W Alexander (Alexander's Case) (1918) 25 CLR 434
Western Australia v The Commonwealth (First Territorial Senators Case) (1975) 134 CLR 201
 

 


 

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