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Law Resources for Murdoch University
Last update: Nov 13th, 2009 URL: http://libguides.murdoch.edu.au/law  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Legislation

 

Legislation Judicially Considered

 LexisNexis AU Casebase 

  • click on legislation tab
  • To search the criminal code section 409 type criminal code in the legislation title box then type 409 into the sec/reg/rule search box. From the Jurisdiction pull down menu select Western Australia

Legal Online (Thomson) - Firstpoint

  • From the Jurisdiction pull down menu select Western Australia
  • In Legislation Judicially Considered type in criminal code and the relevant section number connected with the /s (within same sentence command) -  criminal code /s 409

AustLII

  • Go to the Western Australian consolidated acts, click to the relevant section of the legislation and click on [Noteup].  Remember WA legislation on AustLII is NOT always CURRENT so be sure to check this
 
 

Cases

  • Decisions of criminal cases on appeal in the Supreme Court are added to the unreported judgments databases on both Lexis Nexis AU - unreported judgments 1987+ and more recently on Thomson Legal Online.
  • Remember jury trials do not produce judgments
  • AustLII
  • District Court selected Sentencing Remarks
  • Western Australian Reports (WAR) – not available online
  • Australian Criminal Reports A Crim R – available on Westlaw Australia. To find specific cases, search find by citation using the format 149 A Crim R 542.  The plain text will display, with links to the Full text pdf version as well as to cases which have judicially considered this case – Citing References
 

Commentary

  • LexisNexis AU - Commentaries See the list of my sources, criminal law, click on browse, then Criminal Law Western Australia.You can open the “chapters” by clicking on the +,  or use the quick find at the top of the screen and tick the sections you want to search, or search the whole publication.
  • Legal Online (Thomson) – Commentaries – Criminal law
  • Ross on Crime – Note this is multijurisdictional – so make sure you focus on the WA notes.
  • Federal Offences
  • Lawyers Practice Manual Western Australia - Click on the General Practice “folder” on the left and keep clicking the folder until the chapters and contents pages open up. See part 3 crime and violence.
 

Journals

  • LexisNexis AU CaseBase (Index to Australian cases and journals)
  • Legal Online (Thomson) – Journals (Index to Australian cases and journals)
  • Full text journals – LexisNexis AU, LN Total Research System, Westlaw, Proquest

Access through the Library Catalogue or individually via Journal Articles & Databases page:

  • Informit: AGIS Plus text,  Australian Federal Police Digest,  APA- FT – (Australian legal journals and newpapers) & CINCH (Australian Institute of Criminology database)
  • Full text journals – Proquest, Academic Onefile , AGIS Plus text, APA-FT, Oxford Journals,  SAGE Journals online criminology titles
  • To find journals held or subscribed to by Murdoch, do subject searches for Crime - Periodicals or Criminology - Periodicals
  • Alerts - Email alerts and RSS feeds page in Murdoch Library site
 
 

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