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Greenshields, Anne --- "NetWatch" [1998] MurdochUeJlLaw 1; (1998) 5(1) Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law

NetWatch: March 1998

Author: Anne Greenshields
Librarian - Law, Murdoch University
Issue: Volume 5, Number 1 (March 1998)

Australian sites and developments

Administrative Appeals Tribunal enabling legislation and details for making an application. Summaries of decisions are linked to full text decisions which are loaded at AustLII and ScalePlus.
URL: http://www.aat.gov.au
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/aat/
URL: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/aatdec/browse/TOC.htm

Australian Copyright Council
http://www.copyright.org.au/

Commonwealth Government Entry Point on the Internet. A well organised site for anyone researching Australian issues. The Search function is impressive: web documents from government agencies and departments as well as parliament are effectively searched. A Text Version is also available.
URL: http://www.fed.gov.au/n_index.htm (frames version)
URL: http://www.fed.gov.au/t_index.htm (text version)

Australian Archives Archives Advice 20 E-mail is a record!
URL: http://www.aa.gov.au/AA_WWW/AA_Publications/advices/advice20.htm

Records in Evidence The Impact of the Evidence Act on Commonwealth Recordkeeping
URL: http://www.aa.gov.au/AA_WWW/AA_Publications/records.htm

SCALEplus: is the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney General's Department. The search screens (Quick Search and Advanced Search have been revamped and an alert service for notification of new developments in your area of interest has been established - click on the Notify Me When..button to set up your search terms.
URL: http://law.agps.gov.au/Welcome.html

Technology for Justice a conference run by the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration (March 1998).
Papers include titles such as Electronic Appeals Initiative Project Plan, National I.T. Infrastructure Deployment Project, Overview of Computerised Transcripts and more!
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/conferences/techjust/

University of New South Wales Law Library. Their Guide to Legal Research Materials and Law Reports and Abbreviations are useful documents for Australian students.
URL: http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~law/law.html

New Zealand sites and developments

Challenges to Tradition: Law and Knowledge for the New Millennium New Zealand Law Librarians Group 1998 Conference, full text of papers and real audio of the speaches.
URL: http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/nzllg

The Knowledge Basket (TOPIC/Verity software) Case law, statutes and legal links.
or
LinxLaw (Using the Folio VIEWS software) The search on both now costs nothing, and documents viewed or printed are charged for at $2.00 each. Joining forms for both sites are available online.
URL: http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/kete/database.html
URL: http://www.linxlaw.co.nz/library/linx/contents.htm

New Zealand's Parliamentary Web Site includes some publications and MP details etc. Future plans include publication of bills and committee reports.
URL: http://www.parliament.govt.nz/

Primary Legal Materials on the Internet

Administrative Appeals Tribunal enabling legislation and details for making an application. Summaries of decisions are linked to full text decisions which are loaded at AustLII and ScalePlus.
URL: http://www.aat.gov.au
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/aat/
URL: http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/aatdec/browse/TOC.htm

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873. (US Library of Congress' American Memory Collections) Full text of documents and debates from the First and Second Congresses (1789-1793). More to follow.
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

Resources on Japanese Law (Temple University Law Program in Japan) selected primary materials in Japanese and English. Includes articles and links.
URL: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/law/lawresources.html

Top Cyberspace Law Cases of 1997 A personal selection of the 12 most significant US cases in 1997
URL: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/97cases.html

SCALEplus: the legal information retrieval system owned by the Australian Attorney General's Department. The search screens (Quick Search and Advanced Search have been revamped and an alert service for notification of new developments in your area of interest has been established - click on the Notify Me When..button to set up your search terms.
URL: http://law.agps.gov.au/Welcome.html

Asian Sites

Resources on Japanese Law (Temple University Law Program in Japan) selected primary materials in Japanese and English. Includes articles and links.
URl: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/law/lawresources.html

Conference Papers

Challenges to Tradition: Law and Knowledge for the New Millennium New Zealand Law Librarians Group 1998 Conference, full text of papers and real audio of the speaches.
URL: http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/nzllg

Technology for Justice a conference run by the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration (March 1998).
Papers include titles such as Electronic Appeals Initiative Project Plan, National I.T. Infrastructure Deployment Project, Overview of Computerised Transcripts and more!
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/conferences/techjust/

Constitutional Law

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873. (US Library of Congress' American Memory Collections) Full text of documents and debates from the First and Second Congresses (1789-1793). More to follow. Fascinating for historians.
URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

Directories and Guides

The Internet Fact Finder for Lawyers: How To Find Anything on the Net. Useful selections from a new book from the American Bar Association by Josh Blackman
URL: http://internetlawyer.com/facts/

Law Online an extensive compilation of web law sources.
URL: http://lawonline.ljx.com/

LawResearch Newsletter! Just The LawLinks. Internet archive of the LRC newsletter - the latest law links and web information
URL: http://www.lawresearch.com/v10/news/Volweb.htm

The Virtual ChaseTM Guide to Resources for Legal Professionals is an annotated directory of legal web resources.
URL: http://www.virtualchase.com/

Email Lists, Discussion Forums and Archives

Australian Archives Archives Advice 20 E-mail is a record!
URL: http://www.aa.gov.au/AA_WWW/AA_Publications/advices/advice20.htm

LawResearch Newsletter! Just The LawLinks. Internet archive of the LRC newsletter - the latest law links and web information
URL: http://www.lawresearch.com/v10/news/Volweb.htm

listTool a service provided by LawGuru.com a simple form fill in screen to join law related discussion lists.
URL: http://www.lawguru.com/subscribe/listtool.htm

Intellectual Property

Australian Copyright Council
URL: http://www.copyright.org.au/

Cybercourses at the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Privacy in Cyberspace is a free, non-credit law course open to the public that exists completely online. Reading assignments and background reading for other courses such as Intellectual Property in Cyberspace are also freely available, access to some tantalising courses are however limited to Harvard students.
URL: http://cyber.harvard.edu/index.html

Australian Archives Archives Advice 20 E-mail is a record!
URL: http://www.aa.gov.au/AA_WWW/AA_Publications/advices/advice20.htm

European Commission's Electronic Records DLM-Guidelines (Guildeines on electronic records)
The European Commission organises a multidisciplinary Forum to be held in the framework of the Community on the problems of the management, storage, conservation and retrieval of machine-readable data, inviting public administrations and national archives services, as well as representatives of industry and of research, to take part in the Forum. (EU Council conclusions of 17 June 1994)
URL: http://www.echo2.lu/dlm/en/home.html

Tech Trends New York Law Journal's monthly technology supplement dealing with issues such as privacy, guides, updates, and the hot technological topics of the moment.
URL: http://www.nylj.com/tech/index.html

Journals, Essays & Newspapers

Legal Essays indexed by subject, including indexing of articles produced on ELaw. (Faculty of Law, Cambridge University)
URL: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/ESSAYS/schol.htm

Northern Lights. An effective internet search engine and a very reasonably priced document delivery service for materials in a range of areas including law. Worth investigating, apparently very quick response time.
URL: http://www.northernlight.com/

Tech Trends New York Law Journal's monthly technology supplement dealing with issues such as privacy, guides, updates, and the hot technological topics of the moment.
URL: http://www.nylj.com/tech/index.html

V.I.P. (Virtual Intellectual Property) Newsletter a weekly summary of current U.S. Intellectual Property and New Media issues, litigation decisions and recently filed complaints.
URL: http://www.ipcounselors.com/

Law and Justice Issues

Records in Evidence The Impact of the Evidence Act on Commonwealth Recordkeeping
URL: http://www.aa.gov.au/AA_WWW/AA_Publications/records.htm

Legal Education

Guide to Legal Research Materials. The University of New South Wales Law Library. A useful guide for students confused about legal research or those new to Australian legal materials.
URL: http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~law/law.html

Picturing Justice. Insightful commentaries on the portrayal of law, lawyers and legal issues in television and movies. The articles cover current television series' and movies with a combination of analysis and opinion.
URL: http://www.usfca.edu/pj/index.html

Reference materials and Search Engines

Law Reports and Abbreviations. The University of New South Wales Law Library has integrated their catalogue with standard report series abbreviations. A useful tool for online students confused about abbreviations.
Warning this only will find series held at NSW Law Library. Their Guide to Legal Research Materials is also worth looking at for students confused about researching Australian Law.
URL: http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~law/law.html

Northern Lights. An effective internet search engine and a very reasonably priced document delivery service for materials in a range of areas including law. Worth investigating, apparently very quick response time.
URL: http://www.northernlight.com/

Technology and the Law

Australian Archives Archives Advice 20 E-mail is a record!
URL: http://www.aa.gov.au/AA_WWW/AA_Publications/advices/advice20.htm

Cybercourses at the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Privacy in Cyberspace is a free, non-credit law course open to the public that exists completely online. Reading assignments and background reading for other courses such as Intellectual Property in Cyberspace are also freely available, access to some tantalising courses are however limited to Harvard students.
URL: http://cyber.harvard.edu/index.html

European Commission's Electronic Records DLM-Guidelines (Guildeines on electronic records)
The European Commission organises a multidisciplinary Forum to be held in the framework of the Community on the problems of the management, storage, conservation and retrieval of machine-readable data, inviting public administrations and national archives services, as well as representatives of industry and of research, to take part in the Forum. (EU Council conclusions of 17 June 1994)
URL: http://www.echo2.lu/dlm/en/home.html

Technology for Justice a conference run by the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration (March 1998).
Papers include titles such as Electronic Appeals Initiative Project Plan, National I.T. Infrastructure Deployment Project, Overview of Computerised Transcripts and more!
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/conferences/techjust/

Tech Trends New York Law Journal's monthly technology supplement dealing with issues such as privacy, guides, updates, and the hot technological topics of the moment.
URL: http://www.nylj.com/tech/index.html

V.I.P. (Virtual Intellectual Property) Newsletter a weekly summary of current U.S. Intellectual Property and New Media issues, litigation decisions and recently filed complaints.
URL: http://www.ipcounselors.com/

Torts

The Tobacco Resolution draft proposal for the regulation, manufacture, marketing, and sale in the United States. URL: http://www.tobaccoresolution.com/

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