Foreign Law by Jurisdiction: Australia

Melbourne University Law Review Association Inc., in collaboration with Melbourne Journal of International Law Inc.

Full-text of primary and secondary legal resources. Current for jurisprudence.

Full text in multilateral and bilateral.

ComLaw is an integral part of the Australian Law Online initiative and is maintained by the Australian Attorney-General's Department.Comlaw incorporates the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI).

The Australian Government entry point to all Australian Government legal resources. This is the official site of the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department and portfolio and provides a "Window on the Law" to much Australian legislation and judgments of courts.

Per the home page, this is the "authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents. It contains the full text and details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them." Contains acts, instruments, bills, gazettes, etc.

From the Help screens: JADE is a free current awareness service for Commonwealth cases, legislation, regulations, and statutory instruments. With Case Trace linking of cases in JADE, you can see later considerations of specific sections of a decision. Register for free to use JADE. Note, the Law Library does not subscribe to JADE Professional, which provides additional search tools.

Use the JADE Citator to find out how how a particular passage from a case or piece of legislation has been used in judicial reasoning.

Established in 1975, the Commission is a permanent, independent federal statutory corporation, operating under the Australian Law Reform Commission Act 1996 (Cth.)

Cases: selected federal, state and territory reported and unreported cases. Some files are not current--see Source Information note for coverage.

Legislation, and Hansard papers. Bills, explanatory memoranda, texts of parliamentary debates, and committee reports.

Contains unreported judgments, Commonwealth Law Reports, Federal Court Reports, Federal Law Reports, South Australian State Reports.