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Australian Treaties Database

Official database of Australian treaty information, giving the status of each treaty, its Australian Treaty Series citation and other details, plus a link to the text on the AustLII website. The database homepage also provides information about the treaty-making process, status lists for multilateral treaties deposited with the Government of Australia and other treaty-related information. The database is produced by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

New Zealand Treaties Online

Official database of New Zealand treaties, with status information, citations and other details. Basic and advanced search facilities are available and the text of most of the treaties is available in pdf format. The database is produced by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Department for Exiting the European Union

Website of the UK government’s Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU), which has responsibility for overseeing negotiations to leave the EU and establishing the future relationship between the UK and EU. Government publications, including policy and consultation documents on Brexit, are available on the site along with press releases providing updates on negotiations and government statements.

Constitutional Amendments of 2017: Transition to Presidentialism in Turkey

This article, on the 2017 amendments made to the 1982 Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, is written by Serap Yazici who is Professor of Constitutional Law at Istanbul Sehir University. The article was published in 2017 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author has written an earlier guide entitled ‘Guide to Turkish Public Law and Legal Research’ which focuses on the Constitution itself and amendments adopted between 1987 and 2010 (described in a separate record).

Brexit Reading List: Legal and Constitutional Issues

Online bibliography on the legal and constitutional issues surrounding Brexit, compiled by the House of Commons Library, and made freely available online in PDF. There are sections covering the EU referendum, constitutional and legal issues surrounding UK withdrawal, the triggering of Article 50, the High Court Judgement on Miller v. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, the role of parliament in triggering the process and in the negotiations, the possibility of a second referendum on a withdrawal agreement and issues concerning Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Professional Standards Authority

Website of the Professional Standards Authority, an independent body set up under the NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 to improve the regulation and registration of people working in health and care and develop standards for regulators and accredited registers to meet. The site provides information and links to all the UK health regulators as well as accredited registers that register health and social care practitioners who are not regulated by law such as the Association of Child Psychotherapists or the British Acupuncture Council.

Social Care Wales

Social Care Wales is the body that sets and maintains standards for the social care workforce in Wales. There is information on the Register of Social Care Workers in Wales which is administered by Social Care Wales and on the Code of Professional Practice for Social Care which sets standards for all care professionals in Wales. The site also has training, development and careers information for the social care sector. A collection of resources including documents, videos and links to external web resources of interest to social care workers in Wales is also given on the site.

British Library Patents Collection

This page forms part of the Business and IP section of the British Library’s website and provides guidance on using the patent library. There is information on early English patents and a list of patent resources (some available online) held at the BL. There is also guidance on what constitutes a patent, how to gain patent protection and what rights a patent gives.

Waterlex Legal Database

The Waterlex Legal Database brings together information about national and international water law, governance and policy. It is provided by Waterlex, an international NGO. The data is partly crowd-sourced and partly obtained from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and other official bodies. The database is searchable by key word and can be filtered by country, region and/or type of document. For many countries, extracts from legislation are available, with links to the full text on national websites.

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