A research guide on the legal history of Australia and the UK created and maintained by the Law Library at Melbourne Law School. Links are given to legal history resources and materials held in collections at the University of Melbourne. There are sections including legal history blogs, resources focusing on Australia and the Common Law Tradition and legal history societies and collections.
Website of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL). ANSZIL was established in 1992 and is hosted by the Centre for International and Public Law at the Australian National University and the New Zealand Centre for Public Law at the Victoria University of Wellington. ANZSIL aims to promote and develop the discipline of international law and provide a forum for ¶academics, government lawyers, NGOs, students and practitioners of international law to discuss research and issues of practice in international law÷.
Website of the Innocence Project at Griffith University in Australia. The aim of this pro-bono project is to bring lawyers, law students and academics together to help free innocent persons who have been wrongly convicted in Australia.The site has profiles of Board Members and gives details of programmes and courses offered by the Project. There are references to articles produced by staff on the Project some of which are given in full text.
The Australian Privacy and Surveillance Law Library is an AustLII project providing access to a searchable collection of Australian legal materials specialising in privacy and surveillance law. The Library has been developed in conjunction with the interpreting Privacy Principles (iPP) Project which is based at theCyberspace Law & Policy Centre at the University of New South Wales. There are databases containing case law, legislation, law journals and law reform publications as well as links to external related resources.
Website of the interpreting Privacy Principles (iPP) project which is based at the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at the University of New South Wales in Australia. The project is focused on the ¶interpretation of information privacy principles (IPPs) and µcore conceptsã in Australiaãs various privacy laws, particularly by Courts, Tribunals and privacy regulators÷ and is funded by the Australian Research Council.
Website of the Tasmanian Bar a professional association of independent barristers based in Tasmania and a constituent member of the Australian Bar Association. The site provides profiles and contact details for members of the Bar and there are links to Tasmanian legal resources including legislation, courts and tribunals, judgements and court lists for the Supreme Court of Tasmania and the Magistrates Court. A page of related web links is also given.
Official website of the Supreme Court of Tasmania. The site has details of the judges and a history of the Court. Judgements are linked to on AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute) and sentences of the court, for the last month, are provided on the site. Unreported judgements pre-1985 are in the process of being added to the site in full text. There is guidance for people attending court and details of organisations providing legal advice.
Website of the Tasmanian Government providing gateway access to Tasmanian government departments and services. These include links to the websites of the Premier, the Cabinet and the Tasmanian Parliament. There is general information about the state including tourism, news, maps and directories and sites focusing on business and investment. Government press releases can be searched or browsed and there is a comprehensive listing of Tasmanian government and community sites arranged by subject.
Australian Parliamentary Library research briefing published in 2007, on the Parliament of Australia's ParlInfo site. The 1967 referendum led to changes in the Australian Constitution and resulted in aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders being counted in the census. The referendum also opened the door to further changes in the way aborigines were treated by non-aborigines. The briefing provides background and historical information, looks at the implications and impact of the referendum and addresses myths which have grown up around it.
The New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) is a scholarly society based in New South Wales, Australia. Membership of ANZLHS is drawn from historians, lawyers and academics sharing an interest in the connections between law and history. The site has joining information and details of conferences and competitions. There is also information about the society's journal, law&history, including contents lists, and a link to the discontinued title, Australian and New Zealand Law & History E-journal (on Austlii).
