| Journals | The
library holds an extensive collection of Australian and
overseas journals. |
| Law reports | The
library holds major Australian and English report series
as well as selected US, Canadian, New Zealand, Papua New
Guinea and Singapore reports. |
| Legislation | The
library has a hard copy collection of all Acts and Regulations
for the Commonwealth and NSW as well as historical interstate legislation. Click
here for a detailed description of the collection. UK statutes are available in the Halsbury's Statutes of England series and some original volumes of Acts. To access UK legislation on the web, please go to our legislation links. |
| Looseleaf | Major
Australian looseleaf services and selected English services
are available. In
order to keep these services up-to-date for members, they
are not for loan. A number of these services are also available in electronic format. Details are in the electronic resources section. |
| Mono-in-Series | Papers
and reports published by major organisations such as law
reform commissions, government departments and professional
bodies are held in the Mono-in-Series collection. They
are organised by jurisdiction, organisation and publication
type. The collection also includes Bar Association publications such as CPD seminar papers. |
| Pamphlets | Speeches,
one-off reports, conference papers and articles are held
in the pamphlet collection.
Papers in this collection are generally of a more ephemeral nature and the collection is weeded regularly. |
| Textbooks | The
library collects textbooks as per the library's Collection
Development Policy. Selection reflects the practice areas
of the Bar and acquisition of standard texts and reference
works is virtually automatic.
Textbooks are classified according to Moys Classification and Thesaurus for Legal Materials, 4th ed., by Elizabeth M. Moys. |
| Unreported judgments |
The library's holdings of unreported judgments in hard copy covers
the following courts for the years specified: Federal Court 1981-1996 Industrial Relations Court of Australia 1995-1997 Supreme Court of NSW - Court of Appeal, 1969-1999 - Court of Criminal Appeal, 1973-1999 - Equity Division, 1976-1999 - Administrative Law, 1982-1998 - Admiralty Jurisdiction, 1985-1995 - Building and Engineering, 1987-1989 - Commercial Division, 1987-1998 - Commercial List, 1981-1986 - Common Law, 1981-1999 - Construction List, 1989-1997 - Criminal Division, 1982-1997 - Defamation List, 1984-1999 - Probate Division, 1983-1996 - Protective Division, 1983-1992 Land and Environmental Court of NSW 1980-2003 Commercial Tribunal of NSW 1990-1999 Victorian Supreme Court 1987-1988 The library also holds miscellaneous unreported judgments not available electronically. Please see library staff for assistance. See our case law links to access recent unreported judgments on the web. Unreported judgments are also available via the electronic resources of LexisNexis, Lawbook Online and JIRS. |
