Greenshields, Anne --- "NetWatch June 2002" [2002] MurdochUeJlLaw 9; (2002) 9(2) Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law

NetWatch June 2002

Author:	Anne Greenshields Librarian - Law, Murdoch University
Issue:	Volume 9, Number 2 (June 2002)

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• Australian legal sites and developments
• Primary Legal Materials on the Internet - Case Law, Statutes and Extrinsic Material

Asian Sites Administrative Law Children and the Law Constitutional Law Corporations Law Crime and Criminal Justice Directories and Guides Dispute Resolution Environmental Law Ethics Family Law Free Speech

History Human Rights Insurance Intellectual Property International Law Journals, Essays & Newspapers Law and Aged Persons Law Reform Medico-Legal Links Migration Reference materials and Search Engines Taxation Technology and the Law Women and the Law

Australian sites and developments

GovPubs: The Australian Government Publications Guide from the National Library and Council of Australian State Libraries Consortium - Directory of Australian government publications s"such as Acts, Hansards, Gazettes and Parliamentary Papers, located in Australia's National, State and Territory libraries or available on the Internet".
URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/govpubs/

Law Handbook of South Australia
URL: http://www.lawhandbook.sa.gov.au/

National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention Inquiry - submissions from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
URL: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/children_detention/index.html

Mediation Competencies from the Community Services and Health Training Australia (CSHTA)
URL: http://www.cshta.com.au/cstp_review.htm

Protection of Human Genetic Information: Issues Paper 26 from the Australian Law Reform Commission
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/alrc/publications/issues/26/

Australian Commonwealth Parliament:
• Reports related to Terrorism Legislation introduced by the government in March are available from the homepage of the Senate Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee, scroll down to BILLS REPORTS
  URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/reports/index.htm
  
  
• Inquiry into the Outsourcing of the Australian Customs Service's Information Technology (PDF format) - Tabled 16 May 2002 - submissions.
  URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/outsourcingacsit/Customs.pdf
  URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/outsourcingacsit/sublist.htm
  
  
• Inquiry into s.46 and s.50 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (PDF format) - Tabled 14 May 2002 - submissions
  URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/tradepractices/tpa.pdf
  URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/tradepractices/Submissions/sublist.htm
  
  
• Joint Standing Committee on Treaties:
  Report into the 1998 Statute of the International Criminal Court
  URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jsct/ICC/ICC.htm
  
  

Primary Legal Materials on the Internet

Scotland Legislation from HMSO
URL: http://www.scotland-legislation.hmso.gov.uk/

The University of the South Pacific Law School Pacific Law Materials now includes legislation and cases from Samoa, and the 1988 Vanuatu Consolidation of legislation.
URL: http://www.vanuatu.usp.ac.fj/paclawmat/Paclawmat_MAIN.html

WIPO Cases and WIPO Panel Decisions including Domain Name Disputes - "A database containing detailed information on thousands of cases of 'cybersquatting' handled by the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)": Search or browse options available.
URL: http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/search/

Asian Sites

Malaysian Securities Commission: Including full text of the Malaysian Code on Take-overs & Mergers 1998 which should be read in conjunction with the practice notes.
URL: http://www.sc.com.my/html/resources/fr_resource.html

Administrative Law

freedominfo.org data on freedom of information laws from areas all across the globe. Articles, analysis, case studies and links.
URL: http://www.freedominfo.org/

Children and the law

National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention Inquiry - submissions from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
URL: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/children_detention/index.html

Constitutional Law

Center for Constitutional Rights (USA) a "non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights".
URL: http://www.ccr-ny.org/

Common-place: Roundtable Discussion on the Uses and Abuses of the Constitution USA.Sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History this site contains articles and discussion on constitutional issues which go beyond the US jurisdiction.
URL: http://www.common-place.org/

Corporations Law

Malaysian Securities Commission: Including full text of the Malaysian Code on Takeovers & Mergers 1998 which should be read in conjunction with the practice notes.
URL: http://www.sc.com.my/html/resources/Fr_resource.html

Mergers and Acquisitions Involving UK Companies: 1st Quarter 2002 [.pdf] from United Kingdom's Office of Statistics
URL: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/m&a0502.pdf

Crime and Criminal Justice Issues

Drug Situation in Canada 2001 Report from Criminal Intelligence Program of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
URL: http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/crim_int/drugs_2001_e.htm

Police Departments in Large Cities, 1990- 2000 [.pdf] USA Bureau of Justice Statistics
URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pdlc00.htm

Revalidating External Prison Classifications Systems: The Experience of Ten States and Model for Classification Reform [.pdf - warning this is a big document 146 pages long] from the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) (USA)
URL: http://www.nicic.org/pubs/2002/017382.pdf

WomensLaw.org a US online resource for women and girls living with or escaping domestic violence.
URL: http://www.womenslaw.org/

Directories and Guides

GovPubs: The Australian Government Publications Guide from the National Library and Council of Australian State Libraries Consortium - Directory of Australian government publications s"such as Acts, Hansards, Gazettes and Parliamentary Papers, located in Australia's National, State and Territory libraries or available on the Internet".
URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/govpubs/

International Rule of Law Directory from the International Bar Association (IBA)
URL: http://www.roldirectory.org/

Law and Politics: Internet Guide- material arranged in broad categories. Search by keyword or category.
URL: http://www.lpig.org

US States and Territories - directory of primary legal materials from the Library of Congress.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usstates.html

Universities Worldwide Searchable directory of over 6000 universities in over 150 countries. Search by country, name and keyword. Links to the official university Web sites.
URL: http://geowww.uibk.ac.at/univ/

Dispute Resolution

Mediation Competencies from the Community Services and Health Training Australia (CSHTA)
URL: http://www.cshta.com.au/cstp_review.htm

Environmental Law

National Environmental Publications Information System access to over 9,000 full text, on line EPA documents (USA)
URL: http://www.epa.gov/clariton/

Ethics

Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (USA)
URL: http://www.bioethics.gov/cloningreport/

Family Law

Domestic Partnerships - Division 2.5 of the Family Code, California: Definitions, legislation, criteria and forms.
URL: http://www.ss.ca.gov/business/sf/SF_dp.htm

Domestic Violence & Incest Resource Centre (DVIRC) "funded by the Department of Human Services Victoria, Australia. It is a statewide resource centre for information about domestic violence and sexual assault"
URL: http://www.dvirc.org.au/

Free Speech

Free Expression Network (FEN) Censorship, First Amendment issues, court cases, legislation, volunteering, advocacy, and links (USA)
URL: http://www.freeexpression.org/

Free Expression Policy Project (FEPP): "A Think Tank on Artistic and Intellectual Freedom" it includes accounts of censorship attempts, press reports, court briefs, policy reports, commentaries and links (USA)
URL: http://www.fepproject.org/

Internet Freedom: news and articles affecting free speech and censorship on the Net" (UK based)
URL: http://www.netfreedom.org/

History

Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 from the Library of Congress, USA
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/

Human Rights

Beagle Web site for Lawyers cases and annotations relating to the Human Rights Act 1998 (UK).
URL: http://www.beagle.org.uk/hra/newindex.htm

Insurance Law

Public Liability Insurance Internet resource guide
URL: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/econ/publicliability.htm

Intellectual Property

BitLaw 1,800 pages discussing patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet legal issues. Summaries of the law linked directly to primary materials.
URL: http://www.bitlaw.com/

Internet Freedom: news and articles affecting free speech and censorship on the Net" (UK based)
URL: http://www.netfreedom.org/

Protection of Human Genetic Information: Issues Paper 26 from the Australian Law Reform Commission
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/alrc/publications/issues/26/

WIPO Cases and WIPO Panel Decisions including Domain Name Disputes - "A database containing detailed information on thousands of cases of 'cybersquatting' handled by the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)": Search or browse options available.
URL: http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/search/

International Law & International Relations

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) a "nonprofit, nonpartisan institution" documents and discussion about terrorism, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, nuclear terrorism, key stockpiles of weapons and materials, and more.
URL: http://www.isis-online.org/

Council on Ocean Law (COL) "reference center, document library, and guide to information related to the development and application of ocean law, and in particular to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea." (USA)
URL: http://www.oceanlaw.org/

RAND - policy and decision making through research and analysis. Site includes research reports, discussion and the RAND Review reports periodically on RAND research and related issues of general interest to policy makers and decision makers Sign up for a free online subscription. Other reports and documents also available for free downloading.
URL: http://rand.org/

Journals, Essays & Newspaper

Commonplace: Roundtable Discussion on the Uses and Abuses of the Constitution USA - articles and discussion on constitutional issues.
URL: http://www.common-place.org/

freedominfo.org data on freedom of information laws from areas all across the globe. Articles, analysis, case studies and links.
URL: http://www.freedominfo.org/

Global Jurist peer review journals: The Journals of Legal Scholarship, Issues in Legal Scholarship and Theoretical Inquiries in Law abstracts are free, full text access by subscription.
URL: http://www.bepress.com/gj/frontiers/

Internet Freedom: news and articles affecting free speech and censorship on the Internet
URL: http://www.netfreedom.org/

RAND Review "reports periodically on RAND research and related issues of general interest to policy makers and decision makers". free online subscription. Many of the other documents are available free on line.
URL: http://rand.org/
URL: http://rand.org/publications/randreview/

Roll Call: US Congressional news and information.
URL: http://www.rollcall.com/

Law and Aged Persons

ABA Commission on Law and Aging publications, discussion and information. (USA)
URL: http://www.abanet.org/elderly/home.html

Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America (2002) Report from the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) (USA)
URL: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309084342/html/

Law Reform

Protection of Human Genetic Information: Issues Paper 26 from the Australian Law Reform Commission
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/alrc/publications/issues/26/

Medico-Legal Links

Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry (USA)
URL: http://www.bioethics.gov/cloningreport/

Medical Reference For Non-Medical Librarians and other non- medical professionals. A well organised site of medical reference materials.
URL: http://denison.uchsc.edu/outreach/medbib3.htm

Protection of Human Genetic Information: Issues Paper 26 from the Australian Law Reform Commission
URL: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/alrc/publications/issues/26/

Migration

Migration Information Source "fresh thought, authoritative data, and global analysis of international migration and refugee trends" and chronicles global migration movements. Immigration charts and tables date from 1990.
URL: http://www.migrationinformation.org/

National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention Inquiry - submissions from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. (Australia)
URL: http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/children_detention/index.htm

Reference materials and Search Engines

Medical Reference For Non-Medical Librarians
URL: http://denison.uchsc.edu/outreach/medbib3.htm

Search-22: Reference Searches A directory of search engines - four main collections, indexes and directories, meta, health resources and reference. Easy to use - type your search terms and click on the search engine and your results are listed. Worth testing.
URL: http://www.search-22.com/reference.html

Virtual Reference Desk from the Library of Congress (USA). Links arranged by subject libraries, easy to navigate. Current topics of interest on the front page.
US focused, includes an "ask a librarian reference service". Not available for law questions.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html

Universities Worldwide Searchable directory of over 6000 universities in over 150 countries. Search by country, name and keyword. Links to the official university Web sites.
URL: http://geowww.uibk.ac.at/univ/

Taxation

Parsons, Ross, "Income Taxation in Australia: Principles of Income, Deductibility and Tax Accounting" (Law Book Company, 1985) out of print. An electronic version is available through the Australian Studies Resources at the University of Sydney. Fully searchable or it can be browsed in pdf
URL: http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/law/

Technology and the Law

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: Internet Rights and issues (USA)
URL: http://www.chillingeffects.org/

Digital Technology: Working for Parliament and the Public First report from UK House of Commons Information Committee examining the use of communications technology to improve the working of Parliament, and communication with the public. An important review of the state of technology use in the UK. July 2002.
URL: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cminform/1065/106502.htm
URL: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cminform.htm

The Rise of the E-Citizen: How People Use Government Agencies' Web Sites [.pdf]
URL: http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_Govt_Website_Rpt.pdf

WIPO Cases and WIPO Panel Decisions including Domain Name Disputes - "A database containing detailed information on thousands of cases of 'cybersquatting' handled by the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)": Search or browse options available.
URL: http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/search/

Women and the Law

Domestic Violence & Incest Resource Centre (DVIRC) "funded by the Department of Human Services Victoria, Australia. It is a statewide resource centre for information about domestic violence and sexual assault"
URL: http://www.dvirc.org.au/

National Women's Law Center (USA) their mission is "to protect and advance the progress of women and girls at work, in school, and in virtually every aspect of their lives".
URL: http://www.nwlc.org/

WomensLaw.org a US online resource for women and girls living with or escaping domestic violence.
URL: http://www.womenslaw.org/