The Legal System

Contacts

ACT Children's Court www.courts.act.gov.au/magistrates/index.html

ACT Coroners Court www.courts.act.gov.au/magistrates/index.html

ACT Human Rights Commission www.hrc.act.gov.au

ACT Indigenous Elected Body www.electedbody.com.au/default.htm

ACT Law Reform Advisory Council www.jcs.act.gov.au/lrac.html

ACT Public Library Service www.library.act.gov.au

ACT Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs www.dhcs.act.gov.au/matsia/atsia

ACT Ombudsman www.ombudsman.act.gov.au

ACT Remuneration Tribunal www.cmd.act.gov.au/governance/remtrib

ACT Sheriff's Office (02) 6207 1785; see also the ACT Supreme Court's Jury Duty web page at www.courts.act.gov.au/supreme/content/jury_duty.asp?textonly=no

ACT Supreme Court www.courts.act.gov.au/supreme

Administrative Appeals Tribunal www.aat.gov.au

Administrative Review Council www.ag.gov.au/arc

Attorney General's Department www.ag.gov.au

Australian Human Rights Commission www.hreoc.gov.au

Community Youth Justice www.dhcs.act.gov.au/ocyfs/services/community_youth_justice

Commonwealth Ombudsman www.ombudsman.gov.au

High Court www.hcourt.gov.au

Family Court www.familycourt.gov.au

Federal Court of Australia www.fedcourt.gov.au

Federal Magistrates Court of Australia www.fmc.gov.au

Law Society of the ACT www.actlawsociety.asn.au

Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal http://mrt-rrt.gov.au

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/repbody/index.html

National Native Title Tribunal www.nntt.gov.au

Native Title Resource Unit of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) http://ntru.aiatsis.gov.au

NSW Legal Information Access Centre www.legalanswers.sl.nsw.gov.au

NTSCORP Limited www.ntscorp.com.au

Social Security Appeals Tribunal www.ssat.gov.au

United Ngunnawal Elders Council www.dhcs.act.gov.au/matsia/atsia/ngunnawal_issues

Resources

ACT Public Library catalogue: ACT Virtual Library Website.

ACT Legislation Register www.legislation.act.gov.au (ACT Acts, Regulations Instruments and Forms)

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) www.austlii.edu.au (both Commonwealth and State and Territory Acts and Regulations (as well as court and tribunal cases)).

Australian Catholic University Library: Australian Defence Force Academy Library: Australian Institute of Criminology:
  • online library catalogue;
  • links to local, national and international online criminology databases and resources;
  • CINCH database (Australian material on crime, criminal justice and criminology).
Australian Libraries Gateway

Australian National University: Canberra Institute of Technology online library catalogue

ComLaw www.comlaw.gov.au (Commonwealth Laws)

www.fed.gov.au (Commonwealth law; information about government services and policies).Online Native Title Resource Guide, provided by the Native Title Resource Unit of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS): http://ntru.aiatsis.gov.au/research/resourceguide/statesandterritories/ACT/act01.html

Federal Court of Australia: High Court of Australia Legal Links page

Magistrates Court of the ACT The State Library of New South Wales: list of internet links.

Supreme Court of the ACT: University of Canberra: www.law4you.com.au

www.weblaw.edu.au/index.phtml