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Business Law Guide

Research Librarian - Bernadine Hardin

Australian Legislation

books & journals
[print & electronic]

These web guides include materials purchased by the Library (print and electronic) and Internet resources. All Internet resources selected for this guide offer some free research information.

Australian Legislation

CCH IntelliConnect (Australia) [subscription]
This is a major resource for Australian legal information. Find information either by entering a keyword in the search box, or click on Browse then click on a subject headings and use the "Narrow by" on the left to choose "Document type" then click on Legislation.

Comlaw - Commonwealth of Australia Legislation -
Australian Government - Attorney General's Department     SCALEplus will continue to be available to users until historical material, and other material not currently accessible from ComLaw, has been migrated to ComLaw.

South Australia Legislation
 Includes Hansard and South Australian legislation. See also Other Websites where you will find a subject index to the SA legislation.

 

Australian Case law & commentary

AustLII (Australian Legal Information Institute)
The most comprehensive collection of Australian legal materials - an excellent starting point for your research.

CCH IntelliConnect (Australia) [subscription]
This is a major resource for Australian legal information. Find information either by entering a keyword in the search box, or click on Browse then click on a subject headings such as:

Accounting
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law
Business Law
Company, Corporate & Securities Law
Corporate Governance & Compliance Law
Discrimination
Employment and HR
Environment
Industrial Relations
Occupational Health & Safety
Superannuation & Financial Planning
Tax / Tax Archives
Trade Practices, Consumer & Contract Law
Worldwide Tax

Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation:
Maintained by the University of Melbourne. Also contains links to other sites of interest such as Government and Regulatory Bodies, Corporate Governance and Professional and Interest Bodies.

Parlinfo Web   - Parliament of Australia
Provides access to the Parliamentary Document Repository. Contains over one million documents relating to the work of the Australian Parliament.

AGIS [subscription] Australian database
The Attorney-General's Information Service is a journal indexing and abstracting database.  There are 120+ comprehensively indexed journals.  50% have links to full text. Alternatively - check journal titles in the Library catalogue to see if we have a print subscription.

 

Other Law Resources

Scholarly peer reviewed articles in the Business Source Complete database. See this sample search result for: 
  SU corporation law and australia*

Contract law web site of the Australian National University

 

Laying down the law by Catriona Cook ... [et al.]. Chatswood, N.S.W. : LexisNexis, 6th ed. 2005.
Barr Smith Main collection  349.94 L427.6

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Books (print & online)

The following is a small sample of the Libraries resources, you should also try a Keyword search in the catalogue for your topic.

Library Catalogue - Subject Heading search for Commerce:-
Click a link below then browse the list (see also previous and next buttons) when you click on a Subject Heading a list of titles is displayed.

Commercial Law
Corporations Law ( see also: Australia)
          Use the Sort by:  drop down list to display most recently published records first.

          Click on Headings again to go back to the list of Subject Headings.

you can also search for ebooks

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Updated: 20th January, 2010, Bernadine Hardin