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Contract Law

Research Resources and Guides For Law Topics

Textbooks

Contract Law texts are shelved at 346.2

Subject terms to search in the catalogue include:
Breach Of Contract
Commercial law -- Australia
Consumer protection - Australia.
Contracts -- Australia
Illegal contracts
Public Contracts -- Australia

Titles

An introduction to the law of contract / Stephen Graw

Chitty on contracts / Joseph Chitty

Contract law in Australia / J.W. Carter

Journals and Indexes

Databases

Legislation

Federal Register of Legislation  Commonwealth legislation

Western Australian Legislation - Western Australian Legislation

Legify- gateway to Australian Jurisdiction

LawNow Legislation from Lexis Advance – drill down to a section and click the >> to find related commentary or cases on Lexis Advance;

Parliament of Australia Bills Digest for bills, links to EM (explanatory memoranda) and Hansard (second reading speeches);

Parliament of Western Australia Hansard - links to EM (explanatory memoranda) and Hansard (second reading speeches).

Case Law Databases

Australian Case Law

  • CaseBase from Lexis Advance - a citation and abstract service to Australian case law, links to some ful ltext.
  • Westlaw Australia - a subject index and citator for Australian case law, links to some full text.
  • CCH IntelliConnect - includes a range of Australian decisions from a number of practice areas.
  • AustLII - free full text access to Australian medium neutral citation versions and unreported judgments.
  • Jade - free database and current awareness service of Australian case law

 

International Case Law

  • BAILII - British, Irish, EU case law, legislation and law commission reports
  • CommonLII - Case law from 60 Commonwealth and common law jurisdictions
  • HeinOnline - English Reports (1220-1867)
  • ICLR - Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales, full text case law database
  • JustisOne - full text of UK, Irish, EU, Singapore and other international case law
  • LawCite - a free, automatically generated Australian and international legal case and journal article citator.
  • Thomson Reuters Westlaw Classic - full text of international legal resources, includes UK, Canada, US and EU Case Law
  • Westlaw UK - UK and EU case law
  • WorldLII - global international law, broad coverage

Websites

Networked Knowledge: Contract Law

WorldLII - Contracts

  • A selection of free databases and resources from about the world