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Legislation & Caselaw Databases

Australian Legislation

ACT Legislation Register: ACT Parliamentary Counsel site - current & historical Acts, instruments and Bills.

ComLaw: Attorney General site - current & historical Acts and legislative instruments, some authorised versions.

Lawlex: indexes full-text legislation on all government and parliamentary websites

New South Wales Legislation: NSW Parliamentary Counsel site - current & historical Acts, reguilations and EPIs.

Northern Territory Legislation: NT Parliamentary Counsel site - current & historical Acts, regulations etc.

Queensland Legislation: Queensland Parliamentary Counsel site - current & historical Acts, regulations etc.

South Australian Legislation: SA Parliamentary Counsel site - current & historical Acts, regulations etc.

Tasmanian Legislation: Tasmania Dept of Premier & Cabinet site - current & historical Acts, regulations etc.

Timebase: LAW ONE - database assessible by staff & students of the University of Newcastle
Up-to-date legislation from most Australian jurisdictions and full-text repealed legislation.

Victorian Legislation: Victorian Chief Parliamentary Counsel site - current & historical Acts, regulations etc.

Western Australian Legislation: WA State Law Publisher site - current & historical Acts, regulations etc.

Caselaw Databases

Austlii: free website for primary legal materials (legislation, treaties, unreported versions of case law…); and secondary materials created by public bodies for public access (e.g. law reform and royal commission reports)

CCH Australia: l- database assessible by staff & students of the University of Newcastle
Looseleaf services on law topics including Corporations, Employment, Family, Tax, Torts and Workers Compensation.

LawLink: provides unreported judgments from New South Wales Courts and Tribunals.

LexisNexisAU: - database assessible by staff & students of the University of Newcastle
Access to Casebase (citator), Unreported Judgments, a number of law reports and looseleaf services.

Law Book Online: - database assessible by staff & students of the University of Newcastle
Access to FirstPoint (comprising Australian Digest and Australian Case Citator), Laws of Australia Encyclopedia, looseleaf services and pdfs for Commonwealth Law Reports, Federal Court Reports and many others.

Overseas Cases and Legislation

BaiLII: collection of UK legislation and unreported versions of caselaw, affiliated with AustLII

CanLII: collection of Canadian primary legal material, affiliated with AustLII.

Hong Kong Legal Information Institute: collection of Hong Kong primary legal materials, affiliated with AustLII.

Lexis.com: - database assessible by staff & students of the University of Newcastle
US database of full-text case law from many countries including the United States, Canada and United Kingdom.

New Zealand Legislation: Free unofficial versions of New Zealand statutes and regulations.

UK Statute Law Database: full-text legislation of the United Kingdom.

Westlaw: - database assessible by staff & students of the University of Newcastle
US database which provides case law and other legal resources from around the world.

The Year Books: Index to the judicial decisions of medieval England. The Yearbooks represent the principal legal source materials from 1290 to 1535, this website provides about 4,000 from 1399 on fully indexed and paraphrased.

Law Publishers and Looseleafs Online

LexisNexis.au: - database assessible by staff & students of the University of Newcastle
Access to Casebase (citator), Unreported Judgments, a number of law reports and looseleaf services.

CCH Australia: - database assessible by staff & students of the University of Newcastle
Looseleaf services on law topics including Corporations, Employment, Family, Tax, Torts and Workers Compensation.