Year 10 Legal Studies: Home

A citator is a research tool for finding legal cases by their names, topics or citation. Jade is a citator that will help you search for Australian legal judgments, decisions and legislation.

"Type in the box [provided] to filter by abbreviations, law report series title, or unique court identifiers."

Set up by the Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council, this site allows users to hear evidence in different cases and decide the appropriate punishment.

Visit this interactive 3D Court Room to see how a court works.

"The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) conducts independent merits review of administrative decisions made under Commonwealth laws. [They] review decisions made by Australian Government ministers, departments and agencies and, in limited circumstances, decisions made by state government and non-government bodies." Search this site for resources, cases, statistics and more.

Access a wide range of topics from family law, rights and protections, national security, crime, international relations and more. "Administrative law is the body of law that regulates government decision making. Access to review of government decisions is a key component of access to justice."

"The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free internet access to Australasian legal materials. AustLII's broad public policy agenda is to improve access to justice through better access to information. To that end, [they] have become one of the largest sources of legal materials on the net, with over four million searchable documents."

"The Federal Register of Legislation (the Legislation Register) is the authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents. It contains the full text and details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them."

Search this site for cases and other resources. "The High Court is the highest court in the Australian judicial system. It was established in 1901 by Section 71 of the Constitution. The functions of the High Court are to interpret and apply the law of Australia; to decide cases of special federal significance including challenges to the constitutional validity of laws and to hear appeals, by special leave, from Federal, State and Territory courts."

Lawcite is a freely available case citator service developed by Austlii. It is used to locate judgements, to find how a decision has been subsequently dealt with and to identify journal articles referring to the case. Copy and paste this URL for a video tutorial on how to search this site for case law details: https://bit.ly/2Zc96gG Copy and paste this link for a video tutorial on how to search this site for journal articles and secondary information: https://bit.ly/2Z7FTDm. Copy and paste this link for a video tutorial on how to search this site for legislation and parliamentary materials.

Search all Australian legislation from one site. All principal legislation is categorised under the Lawlex subject index. This includes Acts, Bills, Regulations, Plans and By-laws. The subject index includes 29 categories with subcategories as relevant to those principal categories.

The Legal Database is a collection of legal and policy information. Here you have access to much of the material the Australian Tax Office uses when making decisions, including: Legislation and supporting material, Public Rulings and Determinations, Case Decision Summaries (details of important decisions made by the ATO), ATO Practice Statements (directions to ATO staff on how to apply the laws administered by the Commissioner), Tax related case law.

The Migration Review Tribunal (MRT) and Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT) conduct merit reviews of visa and visa-related decisions made by the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection.

Magistrates, judges, victims and support officers nationwide can now refer to a one-stop reference guide about domestic and family violence.

The Parliamentary Library is part of the Department of Parliamentary Services and provides services to senators, members, their staff, the staff of parliamentary departments and the Governor-General. The first library services were delivered to federal parliament in 1901 and continue to provide significant support to parliament and the democratic process.

Access to judgements from the Queensland Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, District Court and Planning and Environment Court. Also includes access to legislation, forms, practice directions, callover, daily law lists and court calendars as well as the Supreme Court Library catalogue. (DB)

Includes law, rights, legislation, crime, police and court system.

The object of the Queensland Judgments website is to publish, on behalf of the principal courts and tribunals of Queensland, an authoritative, complete and functional collection of Queensland case law (including the Queensland Reports) which can be made available to the community free of charge.

Provides fulltext access to Queensland legislation including Queensland Acts and Subordinate legislation as in force plus superseded reprints, Queensland Acts as passed, Subordinate legislation as made, Queensland Bills as well as Repealed legislation.

Refworld is the leading source of information necessary for taking quality decisions on refugee status. Includes foreign law legislation

Includes information on South Australian Courts, prison, the legal system, crime, road rules.

Includes births, deaths and marriages, ombudsmen, courts, parking fines, police checks, consumer rights, statutory declarations, Commissioners and legislation for Victoria.

National research centre on crime and justice. Undertakes and communicates evidence-based research to inform policy and practice.

This publication presents statistics about victims of selected offences that were recorded by police between January 1 and December 31 2018. This is the ninth annual release of the current time series which covers the 2010 to 2018 reference periods.

The Guide to Law Online is an annotated compendium of Internet links; a portal of Internet sources of interest to legal researchers. Although the Guide is selective, inclusion of a site by no means constitutes endorsement by the Law Library of Congress.

This site presents general information relating to the different legal systems in the world, to the different official languages and to some of the most important international commercial conventions. The map function provides a visual tool for investigating legal systems.

This website provides free public access to up-to-date unofficial versions of the following New Zealand legislation: Acts of Parliament (public Acts), local Acts, private Acts, imperial Acts in force in New Zealand, provincial Acts and provincial Ordinances in force in New Zealand.

The original (as enacted) and revised versions of legislation of the United Kingdom (UK), Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. (DB)

Federal Laws of the USA, including the United States Code.

This link presents data about victims of selected Family and Domestic Violence (FDV)-related offences for 2018.

The Brisbane Domestic Violence Service (BDVS) is a free and confidential service for people in the Brisbane Metropolitan area who are affected by domestic and family violence.

There are many types of domestic and family violence. It is violent, abusive or intimidating behaviour by a partner, carer or family member to control, dominate or cause fear. It doesn’t have to be physical abuse. It can be emotional, psychological, financial, sexual or other types of abuse.

The Domestic Violence Prevention Centre Gold Coast Inc. works from a feminist perspective and framework. We uphold the belief that structural inequalities in society greatly disadvantage women and children and result in power differentials and violence in interpersonal relationships.

This is a statewide resource centre supporting workers and families to help stop family violence

We support people affected by family and domestic violence by providing information, resources and referrals.

Magistrates, judges, victims and support officers nationwide can now refer to a one-stop reference guide about domestic and family violence.

ReachOut is Australia’s leading online mental health organisation for young people, providing practical support to help them get through everything from everyday issues to tough times.