JADE (Judgments And Decisions Enhanced) is a BarNet initiative. It automatically collects all the recent decisions of selected Australian Courts and Tribunals into an enhanced system which allows the ability to search in near-real-time across all jurisdictions using search technologies which are case-research aware.

This free online resource was developed by the Federal Litigation Section of the Law Council of Australia and provides updates on case law affecting client legal privilege, including case summaries and links to full text decisions on AustLII.

The Supreme Court of Queensland Library now has access to all Lawbook Online titles. Lawbook is an Australian online legal information source offering a range of subscription services for legal reference and research. It is a full text database of Australian law, including a case citator and digest FirstPoint, a legal encyclopaedia (The Laws of Australia), looseleaf services, legal journals and a legal journals index, and some law reports. Lawbook online can be accessed on library PC’s.

The Australian Family Law Act Partner is an online research tool that saves you time by pinpointing the CCH family law commentary, regulations, rules and case law most relevant to each section of the Act.

The Australian Workplace Law Partner allows users to search across the CCH workplace law suite of products including commentary, legislation and case law by each section of the Workplace Relations Act 1996. This service can be accessed through CCH on library PC’s or via the Judicial Virtual Library.

The Queensland Litigator’s Toolkit is an online legal reference tool which provides a comprehensive guide to the Queensland Uniform Legal Procedures Rules including searching, annotations, legislation, case law, practice directions, forms and hearing date allocation service. The Systematics Litigator's Toolkit can be accessed on Library PC’s.

This exhibition honours the contribution of past and present members of the Queensland judiciary through their active or reserve service in the Army, Navy and Air Force. The highlight of the exhibition is the collection of personal military memorabilia kindly loaned for the display. The exhibition is currently on display on Level 2 of the Supreme Court Building, 304 George St.

The Jack Lawrence Kelly Memorial Lecture will be held on Monday, 30 June 2008 in the Banco Court, Level 2, Supreme Court, George St. The lecture will be given by the Hon Justice Fryberg on the topic of “Military commissions”. All are welcome to attend at 5:30 for a 6 pm start, and refreshments will be served afterwards.

The Australian Taxation Law Library provides in one searchable location all of the tax-related resources on AustLII, including legislation, case law, legal scholarship and treaties. In addition, the Library makes it possible to search a wide range of other tax resources at the same time by choosing from three other search options: Law on Google, Catalog and Websearch, and the ATO Legal Database. The Library also includes a test application of AustLII’s Point-in Time technology to the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986 (Cth), allowing users to easily find a section of the Act as it was at a particular date, and to compare a section at different dates.

Thomson’s Queensland Building Service is a comprehensive resource on building law and regulation in Queensland. The service includes the full text and annotations to the Building and Construction Industry Payments Act 2004, the Queensland Building Services Authority Act 1991, the Commercial and Consumer Tribunal Act 2003, and the Domestic Building Contracts Act 2000. It also includes the full text and annotations to the Building Code of Australia and the Queensland Development Code.

An exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court Fire 1968 is currently on display on level 2 of the Supreme Court. The exhibition examines the fire that burnt down the original courthouse, the police investigation and subsequent trial of the arsonist, as well as the temporary arrangements that allowed the work of the courts to continue. It also features a history of Brisbane court buildings from 1879-2011, including a sneak peek at the new Supreme Court due for completion in 2011.

Australian Newspapers Online is the National Library listing of Australian newspapers available over the Internet. It includes access to selected full text of individual newspapers.

The Federal Magistrates Court Guidebook is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the jurisdiction of the Federal Magistrates Court (FMC). It is now accessible on library PCs through Lawbook Online.

Paperback $25.00
ISSN 1833-5667
410 pages
Published 2008
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As the only publication of its kind in Queensland, the Supreme Court History Program Yearbook is a valuable addition to the libraries of legal historians and lawyers alike. It serves as a useful source for those seeking a snapshot of the Queensland legal profession each year.

A number of new electronic journals have been added to the SCQL collection. New titles include:

• High Court review
• Elder law review
• Journal of law and financial management
• Macquarie journal of business law
• Macquarie journal of international and comparative environmental law
• Melbourne journal of international law
• Sports law eJournal
• The UNE law journal

Court Forms are available online at the Queensland Courts website. To access them, click here

The Department of Justice website also has some court forms available for download in relation to personal injuries proceedings, the appeal costs fund, the Legal Professions Act 2007, Legal Profession Regulation 2004, Status of Children Act 1978, and the Trusts Act 1973.

The Human Rights Law Resource Centre is a joint initiative of the Public Interest Law Clearing House (Vic) and Liberty Victoria. The site features news and a document library containing detailed case notes of important decisions.

The UCPR Bulletin was initiated in 1999 to identify new cases heard in the Supreme and District Courts that have judicially considered the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules. The UCPR Bulletin is drawn from judgments published in the Queensland Legal Indices (QLI) and is updated monthly.

An illustrated collection of over 50,000 biographies which describe the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond. Provides accurate, concise and readable articles on noteworthy people from all walks of life. Entries offer detailed and extensive biographical information drawn from primary and secondary sources. This database is now accessible through library PC’s and for remote registered users.

Who’s Who contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide. Approximately one thousand new entries are added every year. This online version also includes Who Was Who which contains over 100,000 entries from the archives of Who’s Who dating back to 1898: the definitive roll-call of the last 150 years of British history. This database is now accessible through library PC’s and for remote registered users.

The book Human Rights Related Trade Measures under International Law by Dr Anthony E Cassimatis will be launched by Her Excellency the Governor of Queensland Ms Quentin Bryce, AC on 17 March in the Banco Court. For further information, please click here.

The SCQL has three new CCH Online subscriptions: Australian Corporations Act Partner, Australian Business Advisers Guide, and Buying and Selling Businesses: Personal Property. These resources can be accessed on Brisbane PC’s.

To mark the retirement of Justice G N Williams AO, the Supreme Court of Queensland Library has curated an exhibition in honour of his judicial career. The exhibition is open to the public and can be viewed on level 2 of the Supreme Court Building, 304 George Street.

To mark the retirement of Justice G N Williams AO, the Supreme Court of Queensland Library has curated an exhibition in honour of his judicial career. The exhibition is open to the public and can be viewed on level 2 of the Supreme Court Building, 304 George Street.

This site covers around 820 databases from 123 countries, and allows you to search and access legislation, case law and other published legal sources.

Lawlex is an online database that allows you to search and link to legislation, regulations and bills for all nine Australian jurisdictions. You can search for legislation by name or browse according to subject categories. To access Lawlex, click here.

From 7 January 2008, all library services for QLS members will be provided by the SCQL. For further information on the service, which is provided in association with the QLS, please see the QLS website. Or contact the SCQL on 07 3247 5568.

During the holiday period there will be no edition of the Queensland Legal Updater published on 31 December 2007 or 7 January 2008. The service will resume on Monday 14 January 2008.

You can now access the journal Human Rights free online from library PCs. Published quarterly by American Bar Association Publishing, Human Rights covers a wide range of topics in the human and civil rights arena.

Building and Construction Contracts in Australia : law and practice by J. B. Dorter & J. A. Sharkey is now available in electronic form via Lawbook Online. You can browse this title on library PCs.

The Australian Treaty Library is a searchable online database containing the full text of multilateral treaties and conventions to which Australia is a signatory (beginning 1901). This database can now be accessed via the SCQL catalogue. To visit the Australian Treaty Library, click here

The journal Precedent is now available at the SCQL, both in hard copy and electronically through the database AGIS. Published by the Australian Lawyers Alliance, Precedent is a bi-monthly journal focusing on developments in legal policy and the law. Alongside its strong focus on personal injury law, and tort law more generally, the journal covers civil liberties, administrative law, industrial, immigration and criminal law.

The new Supreme Court Library website is now live, featuring full-text Queensland judgments, with enhanced search facility; a database of judicial profiles, including full-text articles and speeches; and access to online Library services and catalogue. Further development of this site will continue in the coming months to improve online access to legal information, particularly for Queensland legal practitioners. For more details about this development, view the About this Site page, or click on the Legal Profession menu.

To commemorate 100 years of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for the State of Queensland, the Hon BH McPherson CBE will give a free public lecture on Law Reporting in Queensland: Past and Future. The oration will be held on Friday, 9 November at 5:30 pm in the Banco Court, and will be followed by light refreshments. On this occasion we will also be launching a new book on the history of the ICLR by Helen Gregory, entitled Capturing law and history: one hundred years of Queensland law reporting. To RSVP call (07) 3247 9101, or Email: aladin@sclqld.org.au by the 7th of November.

Due to popular demand, the Supreme Court Library is printing more copies of the previously sold-out publication, Curious Connections: Master Musicians and the Law by the Hon JB Thomas. This book explores the connection between the seemingly disparate disciplines of music and law and the remarkable people who have been scholars of both, from Telemann and Tchaikovsky to Cole Porter. The author JB Thomas is well-versed in both law and music. Best known as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland from 1982 to 2002, he also studied piano and was awarded an A.Mus.A. in 1951 at age 16.

For more information on this publication and how you can pre-order your copy click here.

The Centre was established by The University of Melbourne in January 1996, its purpose being to undertake and promote research on corporate law and securities regulation. The website contains a searchable database of corporate law judgments from 1999 onwards (and selected judgments from earlier years).

The Australian Dictionary of Biography Online is freely available on the Australian National University website. The website contains some 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant and representative persons in Australian history from 1788 to 1980, including 285 solicitors and 477 barristers.

PANDORA is a continually growing Web archive that aims to collect and provide access to selected online publications and web sites that are about Australia, or are by an Australian author on a subject of social, political, cultural, religious, scientific or economic significance and relevance to Australia. For legal practitioners, and those interested in the law, this site provides access to more than 620 relevant articles and websites on the subject of Law & Criminology.

The Queensland Sentencing Information Service (QSIS) is a legal research service produced by the Department of Justice and Attorney-General, in partnership with the Judicial Commission of New South Wales. QSIS is designed to assist legal research in relation to sentences and contains a large collection of linked sentencing related information. Features offered by the service include: case summaries and full text judgments of sentence appeals from the Queensland Court of Appeal; revised Sentencing Remarks from the Supreme and District Courts dating from 1999; and the complete collection of Chief Magistrate Notes from 2000. QSIS is accessible via public PCs at the Supreme Court of Queensland Library in Brisbane, Townsville, Rockhampton and Cairns.

On Friday 21st September, Justice Martin will be giving a free public lecture entitled Judges on the Screen: Popular Culture and the Representation of Judges. The lecture will be held at 5:30 pm in the Banco Court and will be followed by light refreshments in the Rare Books Room Precinct. Anyone wishing to attend should contact the library on (07) 3274 9101, or email: aladin@sclqld.org.au.

In April, the Library published The Reception of English Law Abroad by the Hon B H McPherson CBE.

As with the English language, transposing the law overseas produced different accents and usages involving adjustments and change to many of its rules. None of the legal systems of the 100 or more places that now use English law or derivative forms of it is today an exact replica of what it was at the time when it parted from its matrix. To find out more about this publication and download your order form click here, or contact the Library on 3247 4373.

The legal database TimeBase is now available at the SCQL.

TimeBase enables access to full-text current legislation and repealed legislation for all nine Australian jurisdictions. It provides Case Link annotations and linking of Acts to their Subordinate Legislation, Bills, EM and second-reading speeches. TimeBase also includes a number of “point in time” research tools that allow designated legislation to be viewed at any nominated date. The SCQL subscribes to “point in time” research for the Corporations Service, the Trade Practices Service and the Commonwealth Criminal Law Service.

You can access TimeBase from PCs in the Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns and Rockhampton libraries.

On Friday 21st September, Mr Glenn Martin SC will be giving a free public lecture entitled Judges on the Screen: Popular Culture and the Representation of Judges. The lecture will be held at 5:30 pm in the Banco Court and will be followed by light refreshments in the Rare Books Room Precinct. Anyone wishing to attend should contact the library on (07) 3274 9101, or email: aladin@sclqld.org.au

The second edition of Special Leave to Appeal by David O’Brien has been published by the Library. This book is as comprehensive a statement of the law and practice of applying for special leave as there is. With reference to over 1,800 decisions, and relevant statutory provisions including the new High Court Rules 2004, this work is an invaluable aid to preparing to make or meet an application.

To download an order form click here, or contact the Library on 32474373.

The UK statute law database provides online access to the official revised editions of primary legislation of the United Kingdom. The Statute Law Database also enables the user to: view amended legislation as it has changed over time; see how legislation will be affected by amendments not yet in force; see how legislation has been amended for different jurisdictions; navigate links between affecting and affected legislation and search the text of legislation for words and phrases.

The Library’s subscription to the Austrom database has been expanded to include AGIS plus text, an indexing and full text database that provides online access to the scanned images of journal articles. Source documents include over 130 legal journals from Australian, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region indexed in the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Information Service (AGIS) database. Subject coverage includes all aspects of law including administrative law, banking, companies and securities, constitutional law, copyright law, criminal law, environmental law, family law, human rights, international law, legal aid, and trade practices.

Library patrons can now access the Australian Legal Journals Index through Lawbook Online. This is an indexing and abstracting database of more than 400 journals, including the Australian Law Journal, Criminal Law Journal, Insolvency Law Journal, Australian Journal of Administrative Law, and Tort Law Review, with links to full-text articles in the Lawbook Online collection. Contact the Information Services staff on 07 3247 4373 for more information.

On Tuesday 17 July, a swearing in ceremony was held in the Banco Court for the new District Court judges, His Honour Judge Martin SC and His Honour Judge Searles. The following day the Honourable Justice Daubney was sworn-in as a Judge of the Supreme Court, and the Honourable Justice Muir was sworn-in as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Five new magistrates were also announced last week. Magistrates Michael Hogan (Southport), Michael Quinn (Sandgate), Damian Carroll (Toowoomba), and Peter Smid (Townsville) were appointed on 20 July. Magistrate Joe Pinder (Cairns) will commence his appointment from 13 August.

The inaugural BH McPherson Oration on Legal History, entitled “Queensland’s only Naval Prize Case”, will be delivered by the Honourable BH McPherson CBE in the Banco Court on Friday 20 July 2007 at 5:30 pm. On this occasion Senator the Honourable GH Brandis SC will also launch McPherson’s book The Reception of English Law Abroad. Anyone wishing to attend should contact the Library on 07 3247 9101.