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Law Report

Law Report is a weekly programme produced by Radio National which is part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The programme is aimed at lawyers and the public focusing on current legal issues in Australia and across the world and covering subjects such as law reform, legal education and miscarriages of justice. The website provides transcripts of programmes which can be viewed in HTML and recent broadcasts can be heard using Windows Media Player or RealPlayer. Transcripts are listed chronologically and are available back to 1999.

Victoria Law Foundation

Website of the Victoria Law Foundation in Australia. The Foundation is an independent statutory body established by the Victorian Parliament to act as a 'creative interface' between the public, the government, the legal profession and community organisations. The site provides a selection of online books aimed at the public and the legal profession which are made freely available as PDF documents and cover topics such as jury service, pro bono and local laws.

Crime and Corruption Commission

The Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) in Queensland, Australia was formed in 2002 to "fight major crime and improve the integrity of the state public sector". The site includes a selection of full-text publications made freely available on the website as PDF documents. These include relevant legislation, research reports, speeches and conference papers and cover topics such as policing, criminal justice, youth, sexual offences and indigenous Australians.

Asian Law Centre

Website of the Asian Law Centre at the University of Melbourne. The Centre promotes the teaching of Asian law in Australia and seeks to increase the understanding of Australian law in Asia. The site provides information about courses, research, events, and details of work in progress at the Asian Law Centre. There is free access to the Centre's bibliographic database, Asian Law Online, and a list of research links which can be searched by country. There is access to the contents and abstracts of the Australian Journal of Asian Law, and to the Melbourne Asia Policy Papers

Australian Journal of Asian Law

The Australian Journal of Asian Law is a joint initiative of the Asian Law Centre at the University of Melbourne, the Law Faculty of the Australian National University and the School of Law at the University of Washington. It is published 3 times a year and includes articles, book reviews and case notes. A link is given on the page to SSRN (Social Science Research Network) where the journal can be viewed and downloaded in full.

Practice Source

Practice Source is an Australian legal website edited by Sean Hocking and focusing on legal publishing and legal information management. Although coverage on this site is international the emphasis is on Australian legal information. There is coverage of legal news stories and general news from a range of sources. Other sections provide links to news and blog posts dealing with knowledge management, legal publishing and marketing issues.

Decisions of the Nineteenth Century Tasmanian Superior Courts

Collection of full-text decisions from the Tasmanian Superior Courts handed down between 1824 and 1842 and made freely available by AustLII (the Australasian Legal Information Institute) and Macquarie University in Australia. The project was undertaken by Bruce Kercher of Macquarie University, Australia who selected and edited cases from newspaper archives and court records. Cases can be searched and browsed by subject or date.

Courts Administration Authority for South Australia

The website of the Courts Administration Authority (CAA) for South Australia describes the role and functions of the South Australia courts including the Supreme Court, District Court, Magistrates Court, Environment, Resources and Development Court, Youth Court, Coroner's Court, Industrial Relations Court and Drug Court. Judgments, sentencing remarks, coroners' findings and case lists are also provided. The section for lawyers provides Bench Books, court rules, fees information and Practice Directions.

Federal Court of Australia

The website of the Federal Court of Australia includes a database of judgments from 1977 to the present, a glossary of legal terms, judges' speeches and papers, court listings, court forms, rules and practice directions. It also has background information about the Court and its judges, mediation services, native title proceedings, anti-discrimination law and bankruptcy. The Going to Court section provides guidance for lawyers, witnesses, litigants and those who have been subpoenaed.

Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration

The Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA) is a research and education institute funded by the Commonwealth states and territories and the New Zealand Ministry of Justice, as well as by membership subscriptions. It provides courses to the legal profession, focusing on court administration and judicial systems. The website provides a newsletter, research reports, bench books, judicial guidelines, judicial gender statistics, videos and podcasts, seminar and conference papers and other publications.
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