Legal Research Guides
There are
brief guides available to assist you with your research. Each
title provides an introduction to use of the manual resources.
All files are in PDF format. 
LEGISLATION: What is a Bill? (html, pdf 52KB) What is an Act? (html, pdf 52KB) Finding & Updating an Act (html, pdf 53KB) What is Hansard? (html, pdf 51KB) Judicial consideration of legislation (html, pdf 52KB) The making of an Act of Parliament (html, pdf 52KB) Regulations or Subordinate Legislation (html, pdf 53KB) CASELAW: Case Citators (html, pdf 50KB) Unreported judgments and Specialized Reports (html, pdf 50KB) Case Citation (html, pdf 52KB) REFERENCE TOOLS: Australian Current Law (html, pdf 50KB) Australian Digest & ALMD (html, pdf 52KB) Australian Legal Encyclopedias (html, pdf 51KB) Journal Indexes (html, pdf 52KB) Words and Phrases (html, pdf 50KB) PATHFINDERS Constitutional and Administrative Law (html, pdf 68KB) Corporate Law (html, pdf 65KB) Taxation Law (html, pdf 69KB) United National Materials (html, pdf 72KB) FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS: English Case Law (html, pdf 52KB) Halsbury's Laws of England and the Digest (html, pdf 52KB) United States Case law (html, pdf 56KB) United States Legislation (html, pdf 56KB) Electronic Sources for International Law, the UN and treaties (html, pdf 48KB) Sources of US Law in the Law Library (html, pdf 52KB) GENERAL Law Library Self-Paced Tour(html, pdf 52KB) Introduction to Legal Research (html, pdf 52KB) Advanced Legal Research (html, pdf 52KB) Electronic Legal Research (html, pdf 55KB) Using the Catalogue and Moys (html, pdf 52KB) Finding Journal Articles and Cases in Full-Text (html, pdf 52KB) Internet Search Engines (html, pdf 52KB) DATABASE GUIDES Capital Monitor (html, pdf 52KB) Chinese Academic Journal Web (html, pdf 1.7MB) Isinolaw (html, pdf 52KB) |