School of Law - Research
Faculty of Business and Law
Subscription services
Subscription services
Available to Deakin staff and students including: Practice and Procedure - High Court and Federal Courts (LexisNexis) and Springvale Legal Service's lawyers practice manual (Victoria) (LexisNexis)
General
Ashby's Grimoire - The Legal Costs Page
A site hosted by Legal Costs consultants in Victoria - provides some information about legal costs, the difference between party/party and solicitor/client costs etc.
Hieros Gamos – The Practice of Law Center
US-based site
Statutory declarations
From the AG website - includes downloadable forms
Stuart Dunn's Law of Damages Page
Information about Dunn's book as well as article summaries, case details and other resources
The Legal Profession
Legal Profession and the Courts
Parliamentary Library site - links in the following categories: courts, publications, cross vesting, judges (inc magistrates), legal profession (barristers, solicitors, justices of the peace), women and the law, links to other sites, overseas sites
Separate Licensing of Solicitors and Barristers
Part of the National Competition Policy Review of the Legal Profession Act 1987. Hosted by the Lawlink website - Law Reform Commission, NSW.
Scrutiny of the legal profession: complaints against lawyers
NSW Law Reform Commission Report 70 (February 1993)
Reports
Beyond the door-keeper - standing to sue for public remedies
Australian Law Reform Commission Report 78 (1996)
Civil litigation practice and procedure
Australian Law Reform Commission Adversarial Background Paper 5 (December 1996)
Client Legal Privilege and federal Investigatory Bodies
ALRC Issues Paper 33
Contribution Between Persons Liable for the Same Damage
New South Wales Law Reform Commission Report 89 (1999). Includes an Introduction and sections on: Solidary Liability, Where Contribution Arises, When Contribution Arises and Procedure.
Costs shifting - who pays for litigation?
Australian Law Reform Commission Report 75 (1995)
Judicial and case management
Australian Law Reform Commission - Adversarial Background Paper No 3 (December 1996)
Managing Justice: A review of the federal civil justice system
ALRC Report No 89 - report reflects the law as at 31 December 1999. The Discussion Paper (no 62) for this report is also available.
Review of the criminal and civil justice system in Western Australia
Law Reform Commission of WA.
Review of the adversarial system of litigation: ADR – its role in federal dispute resolution
Australian Law Reform Commission Issues Paper 25 – June 1998
Review of the adversarial system of litigation: Rethinking family law proceedings
Australian Law Reform Commission Issues Paper 22 (1997)
Seen and heard: priority for children in the legal process
Australian Law Reform Commission Report No 84 (30 September 1997)
Set-off
New South Wales Law Reform Commission Report 94 (2000). Includes an Introduction and sections on: the Statutes of Set-Off, The Need for Reintroduction, Implementation of the Reintroduction and Reform of the Law under the Statutes of Set-off
The unrepresented party - adversarial background paper no. 4
Australian Law Reform Commission background paper - December 1996
Professional Ethics
Professional Standards Division of the Law Institute of Victoria
Solicitors' Trust Accounts: How Practitioners and Firms must handle trust money
Useful document by the Professional Standards Division of the Law Institute of Victoria
Articles
Ethical Ramifications of Corporatised Legal Practice
Article by Russell Cocks in [2001] Deakin Law Review
Ethics: The Adversarial System and Business Practice
Article by The Honourable Justice Geoffrey Nettle in (2005) 20 Deakin Law Review 67 (PDF)
Code of Conduct for Lawyers in the European Community
Preamble, General Principles, relations with clients, relations with teh courts, relations between lawyers, explanatory memorandum and commentary.
ABA Center for Professional Responsibility
American Bar Association – contains the following sections: what’s new, about the center, legal ethics, professional regulation, client protection, professionalism, lawyer’s manual, ethics 2000, lawyer assistance program, publications, videos, upcoming events and information on joining the center. Great US site.
American Legal Ethics Library
This is part of the Legal Information Institute. It contains information about the American Legal Ethics Library and materials listed by jurisdiction and topic. Topics include: Client-Lawyer relationship, counselor, advocate, transactions with persons other than clients, law firms and associations, public service, information about legal services and maintaining the integrity of the profession.
Legalethics.com
Links to government ethics sites – great starting point. It includes links to state bar associations, legal resources, rules of conduct/ethics opinions, and more
