Law Topics

Keep up to date with legal news about:

• trending topics
• legislative updates
• latest cases
• law firm blogs

This will help with assignments, and when you enter the workforce.

Federal Register of Legislation:
Create an account, then set up alerts to keep up to date with changes to legislation. This is a free service.
Select a specific Act or topic.

Western Australian Legislation:
Select Notifications. Create an account with the State Law Publisher, then set up alerts to keep up to date with changes to WA legislation. This is a free service.

ParlInfo - Australian Parliament House:
Create an account, then set up alertsto keep up to date with changes to legislation. This is a free service.
Save your search to run automatically.

Jade:
Latest court cases - state and commonwealth.  This is a free service.

Practice Source:
Subscribe to the alert service to stay up to date with what’s happening in Australian law firms and the industry (newsletter and RSS feed buttons are located top right of screen).

United Nations Newsletter

​Google Alerts: Set up alerts on targeted topics of interest.

ABC Law Report: 
Subscribe to receive free email notification of what's on each week.

Australian Newspapers directory:
From the National Library of Australia. A list of all Australian newspapers, check each paper to find if they offer an email alert service.

EBSCO:
Select Business Source Complete database. On the Advanced Search screen, select Publication type: newspapers

Factiva.com:
An extensive collection of Australian and international publications (journals, magazines, newspapers), websites, images, and company data and company reports from Reuters.

Informit:
Resources indexed include journals, books, conference proceedings and television broadcasts.

​​LLRX - Law Library Resource Xchange:
Register to receive the free monthly international ejournal on a wide range of internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools.

News.com.au:
This site covers major Australian newspapers such as The Australian, The Courier-Mail, The Advertiser, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun and The Mercury. To receive daily news headlines by email each morning subscribe to the service.

Practice Source:
Subscribe to the alert service to stay up to date with what’s happening in Australian law firms and the industry (top right of screen).

ProQuest:
Multidisciplinary collection of journals, magazines and theses, including many business, management and economics resources.

Thomson Reuters Westlaw:
Provides a searchable collection of news sources from Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, China, Japan, Korea and the UK. Select the World News tab.

TVNews:
Provides access to Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentary broadcasts from the free-to-air networks.

Westlaw UK:
Provides a searchable collection of National (UK), Regional, International and Business, Trade and Industry News.

BRIEF:
The official journal of the Law Society of Western Australia.

JournalTOCs

• establish alerts for Tables of Content for latest editions (free)