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Registries of Births Deaths & Marriages
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Federal Police Criminal History Check
Legal
Aid
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Aid Call Centre 1300 651 188 Fax: 07 3238 3014
Women's Legal
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Youth Legal
Aid Telephone Service (Under 17 years) 1300 651 188
Legal Aid Commissions
Check your
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Legal
Aid Office of the Australian Capital Territory Ph: 02-6243-3411
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Aid Commission of New South Wales Ph: 02-9219-5000
Legal
Aid Queensland Ph: 1300 651188
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Services Commission of South Australia Ph: 08-8463-3555 Advice
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Aid Commission of Tasmania Ph: 03-6234-6544
Legal
Aid Commission of Western Australia Ph: 09-9261 6222
Victoria
Legal Aid Ph:03-9269 0234
Family
Law
http://www.familycourt.gov.au/
Features
on Australian Adults & Missing Children
http://www.familycourt.gov.au/missing/
The
Family Law Act
The Family
Court of Australia can, when a child has been abducted, lift restrictions
that otherwise stop the names of people involved in family law proceedings
from being published. This is done specifically to locate a child.
List
of missing children - Provides a list of missing children and their
details.
Other
information - Provides a set of links to information about international
child abduction.
Legal
Advice
http://www.familycourt.gov.au/html/legal_advice.html
*Further
reading
1. Legal
Aid Forum towards 2010 : Legal Aid and a Fair Family Law Justice System
An Address
by The Honourable Chief Justice Alastair Nicholson AO RFD, Chief Justice,
Family Court of Australia, Wednesday 21 April 1999, Members Dining Room,
Old Parliament House, Canberra
2. Legal
Aid Forum towards 2010 : Legal Aid and a Fair Family Law Justice System
: Appendix 1 An Address by The Honourable Chief Justice Alastair Nicholson
AO RFD, Chief Justice, Family Court of Australia, Wednesday 21 April 1999,
Members Dining Room, Old Parliament House, Canberra
Law
Societies
Law
Society of ACT Ph:02-6247-5700
Law
Society of NSW Ph: 02-9220-0333
Law
Society of NT Ph:08-8981-5104 F:08-8941-1623
Email:lawsoc@lawsocnt.asn.au
Law
Society of QLD Ph:07-3233-5888 F:07-3842-5999
Email:info@qls.com.au
Law
Society of SA, Ph: 08-8231-9972
Law
Society of TAS, Ph:03-6234-4133
Law
Institute of VIC Ph: 03) 9607 9311
Law
Society of WA Ph:09-9221-3222
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States Legal Regulations & Acts
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CAPITAL TERRITORY
ACT
Consolidated Acts and Ordinances
ACT
Consolidated Regulations
ACT
Numbered Regulations
Supreme
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ACT
Legislative Assembly
*NEW SOUTH
WALES
NSW
Consolidated Acts
NSW
Consolidated Regulations
Parliament
of NSW
NSW
Government Home Page
*NORTHERN
TERRITORY
Northern
Territory Government
Legislative
Assembly
*QUEENSLAND
Queensland
legislation
Office
of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel
Queensland
Government
*SOUTH
AUSTRALIA
Supreme
Court of South Australia
South
Australian Consolidated Legislation
South
Australian Consolidated Regulations
South
Australian Government
SA
Law Australian legal resource site for solicitors, law students
and general interest groups.
*TASMANIA
Supreme
Court of Tasmania Decisions 1987-
Resource
Management and Planning Appeal Tribunal of Tasmania Decisions 1996-
Department
of Premier and Cabinet - Tasmania's Consolidated Legislation Online
Governor
of TAS
Parliament
of TAS
Departments
and Agencies
*VICTORIA
Victorian
Acts as consolidated in 1996 and subsequent Acts
Victorian
Consolidated Regulations
Supreme
Court of Victoria - Court of Appeal Decisions 1997-1998
Supreme
Court of Victoria - Court of Appeal Decisions 1998-
Supreme
Court of Victoria Decisions 1998-
VIC
Legislation Parliament Documents, Acts of Parliament
Parliament
VIC
Governor
of VIC
Departments
and Agencies
*WESTERN
AUSTRALIA
WA
Consolidated Legislation
WA
Consolidated Regulations
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of WA
State
Law Publisher Western Australian Statutes
Commonwealth
Commonwealth
Consolidated Acts
Commonwealth
Numbered Acts
Commonwealth
Consolidated Regulations
Commonwealth
Numbered Regulations
FINDING
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Australian
Commonwealth Government Entry Point
AUSTRALIAN
COURTS
Federal
Court of Australia 1977-
High
Court of Australia 1947-
National
Native Title Tribunal 1994-
Parliament
of Australia Hansard
LEGAL RESEARCH
TOOLS
The top three
search tools used by most Australian lawyers are Law Net, AUSTLII and Scale
Plus.
Law
Net An excellent resource
Australian
Court Lists: Available daily by the Court concerned.
Australian
Business Research
AUSTLII
The Australasian Legal Information Institute
AUSTLII
Extended Search Form
ScalePlus
Federal AG's case law and legislation database
Window
on the Law Homepage Australian government law and law related
services...
Library
resources
LAO
: Law Australia Online : Information for Lawyers and Legal Professionals.
Information, Links, Jobs, Services and a Bookshop for Lawyers, Legal Professionals,
Court Staff, Legal Students, Magistrates, Judges, Barristers...
Australian
Indigenous Peoples and the Law
NTU
Faculty of Law List of Web Resources
Australian
Uniserve Law An electronic clearinghouse of Australian
legal materials.
Lawstuff-
Legal rights, helpful legal contacts and toons for Autralian people under
18.
The
Law Shop Sells law texts and secondhand law reports Email lawshop@highway1.com.au
The
Communications Law Centre (CLC) is an independent, non-profit, public
interest organisation.
Environmental
Defender's Office an extensive number of links to government
and environment sites.
University
of Sydney Law Library
Foundation
Law
LawSearch
Online: Provides access to Commonwealth legislation providing details
about Commonwealth Bills, Commonwealth Acts and most Commonwealth subordinate
legislation
Law
Information
Legal
Education & Practical Legal Training
Australian
Advocacy Institute
Bond
University, School of Law
Faculty
of Business and Law, Central Queensland University.
College
of Law NSW
University
of Sydney, Faculty of Law NSW
University
of Technology, Faculty of Law Sydney, NSW.
University
of NSW, Faculty of Law
University
of Wollongong, Faculty of Law
Australian
National University Faculty of Law ACT.
University
of Canberra, School of Law ACT
Deakin
University, School of Law Victoria
Leo
Cussen Institute
University
of Melbourne Law School Victoria.
Victoria
University, Faculty of Business & Law
Monash
University Faculty of Law
The
University of Adelaide School of Law SA.
University
of Tasmania, The Faculty of Commerce & Law
Northern
Territory University, Faculty of Law
School
of Law, Murdoch University. Perth, Western Australia
Student
Networks
National
Environmental Law Student Network (NELSnet)
Australian
Student Environment Network
Aust.
Law Reform Commission
Australian
Law Reform Commission Online
Administrative
Review Council
Scrutiny
of Acts and Regulations Committee
Law
Reform Commission of Western Australia
International
Law Reform Links
Foundation
Law:
UniServe
Law
Commonwealth
Attorney-General's Department
Copyright
Law Review Committee
Family
Law Council
Legal,
Constitutional & Administrative Review Committee, Queensland
ACT
Law Reform Commission
New
South Wales Law Reform Commission
Northern
Territory Law Reform Committee
GPO Box 1535,
Darwin NT 0801
E-mail: bryan.elliot@nt.gov.au
Queensland
Law Reform Commission
Policy &
Legislation Section,
SA Attorney-General's
Department
GPO Box 464,
Adelaide SA 5001
Ph:
08-8207-1604 / Fax: 08-8207-1337
Director
of Law Reform
c/- The Legal
Aid Commission
GPO Box 9898,
Hobart TAS 7001
Ph:
03-6233-8541/ Fax: 03-6231-3553
Victorian
Parliamentary Law Reform Committee
Victorian
Attorney-General's Law Reform Advisory Council
