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Law Commerce Business Research Resources - University of Adelaide Library

Commerce Law Guide

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

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 Online (Australia)
The Library subscribes to most of this law reporting service. The left hand frame lists the broad headings for our "Active subscriptions":-

Company Law Cases
Consumer Credit Law Reporter
Corporations & Securities Law Reporter
Family Law
Securities & Investment Commission Releases
Superannuation Law
Tax Cases
Torts Reporter
Trade Practices Law Reporter

The right-hand frame displays all the titles that make up the active collection/product. You can return to the collection view (left frame) from the book view at any time by clicking on the Home button on the tool bar.

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.

Australian Law Online  
A good starting point for finding a variety of aspects and agencies in relation to a legal matter. Use the search for: box in the top right hand corner of the web page.

AGIS , 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.

 

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Updated: 24th June, 2008, Bernadine Hardin