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Started Dec 10 2012, 15:29
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Dec 10 2012, 15:29
I am writing this post to assist all forum users because I think it may really help us to get some clarity about how to do the research and understand the various and sometimes conflicting effects of the relevant legislation and how it could or will affect your own cases.
Every single case is different. This is not specific to any particular case - it is about how to "find out how to find out" without spending a fortune on lawyers. I invite each forum member to make their own enquiries and to tailor their research to suit the particular circumstances of their own cases. I do not profess to be an expert and would value the input from anyone else with some expertise in this area.
Here is part 1: what is austlii and what can it do for me?
The austlii website is freely available to anyone. The acronym (letters stand for) or "austlii" means Australian legal information Institute.
Their brilliant web site at "about us" says and I acknowledge them as the source:
What is AustLII?
AustLII is Australia's most popular online free-access resource for Australian legal information, serving the needs of a multitude of users with over 900,000 hits daily. AustLII is a joint facility of the UTS and UNSW Faculties of Law. AustLII relies on the generosity of its contributors to operate. To make a tax deductible contribution please use our contribution form.
What does AustLII do?
The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free internet access to Australasian legal materials. AustLII's broad public policy agenda is to improve access to justice through better access to information. To that end, we have become one of the largest sources of legal materials on the net, with over four million searchable documents.
AustLII publishes public legal information -- that is, primary legal materials (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals); and secondary legal materials created by public bodies for purposes of public access (law reform and royal commission reports for example) and a substantial collection of law journals.
Legal Information on AustLII
AustLII maintains its own collections of primary materials: legislation and court judgments ("case law"). Some legal training or familiarity with the subject matter is sometimes required to make use of these documents.
Alternatively, AustLII also has a collection of secondary materials: commentaries and summaries on the law. This includes large projects such as the Australian Indigenous Law Library, the Australiasian Law Reform Library, the Australasian Law Journals Library and many others.
If you have no legal training but are trying to find out some legal information then consult the Community Legal Information pages. Select the subject matter that you are interested in and click on the links until you find the information you're after.
Help on using AustLII is available. You can consult the comprehensive on-line help pages for help on searching and locating information, or you can download and print the more extensive AustLII User Guides.
Okay now you know what it is; let us see if we can refine ways to use it that will best help you in your quest for justice.
Stay tuned to this station - it is a work in progress
Cheers Iconoclast
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