Australian Law Online


This page provides links to selected sources of online case law and legislation in Australia and New Zealand, including AustLII (Australian Legal Information Institute), which provides the most comprehensive collection of Australian primary legal materials on the Internet. It should be noted that online versions of case law and legislation are generally unofficial; therefore, users should check the official paper versions, as necessary.

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Case Law
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New Zealand

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Australia (Commonwealth)

States and Territories

New Zealand



Case Law: Australia (Commonwealth)

High Court of Australia
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains all officially reported decisions (in the Commonwealth Law Reports) since the Court's inception in 1903 and all pampleted decisions (reported or otherwise) since 1998. Judgments are generally available within a few hours of being handed down, and notice of new decisions is provided on the main AustLII home page. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. Also available are special leave dispositions, transcripts, High Court bulletins, and all Privy Council appeal decisions from decisions of the High Court of Australia.

High Court Decisions: 1903 to date.
Recent High Court Decisions: Listed in reverse chronological order.
Special Leave Dispositions: 2008 to date.
High Court Transcripts: 1995 to date.
High Court Bulletins: 1996 to date; listed in reverse chronological order.
Privy Council Appeal Decisions: 1904 to 1980.

Privy Council Appeals
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains all Privy Council appeal decisions from decisions of the High Court of Australia and State Supreme Courts from 1904 to 1980. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Family Court of Australia
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains selected decisions of the Family Court of Australia from 1982 to date. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. Recent full court and first instance judgments of the Family Court are also availabe on the Court website for a period of two months as PDF files.

Federal Court of Australia
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains both single judge and full court decisions of the Federal Court of Australia from February 1, 1977 to December 31, 2001, but only single judge decisions from January 1, 2002 to date. A separate Federal Court of Australia Full Court judgments database contains full court decisions from January 1, 2002 to date. For each database, the following search options are available: full database search, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. Users can also search across both databases at once. The Federal Court website also provides a number of judgments that cannot be uploaded to AustLII due to technical difficulties.

Federal Court Judgments: Decisions 1977 to date.
Federal Court - Full Court Judgments: Full Court Decisions 2002 to date.

Federal Magistrates Court of Australia
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains selected decisions of the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia from 2000 to date. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. A list of new or recent significant judgments is also available on the Court website.

Federal Magistrates Court of Australia (Family Law Decisions)
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains selected family law decisions of the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia from 2000 to date. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. A list of new or recent significant judgments is also available on the Court website.

Industrial Relations Court of Australia
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains decisions of the Industrial Relations Court of Australia from 1994 to 2001. The Court has closed. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Tribunals / Topical Collections


Administrative Appeals Tribunal
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains decisions of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) from 1976 to date. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. AAT decisions on AustLII are updated daily. The Tribunal's website provides summaries of recent decisions with links to the full text on AustLII, if available. This page is updated every Wednesday.

Australia Domain Names Decisions
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains .au Domain Name decisions by panels appointed by Dispute Resolution Service Providers under the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)'s Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) since 2003. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Australian Competition Tribunal
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains selected decisions of the Australian Competition Tribunal from 1997 to date. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Australian Designs Office
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains selected decisions of the Australian Designs Office from 1982 to date. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Australian Industrial Relations Commission
The Australian Industrial Relations Commission provides access to full bench decisions from December 1997 to date and all decisions since July 2000. Users can browse the decisions by date or search by keyword. Also available are trancripts from September 2000 to date, as well as the weekly AIR Bulletin containing decision summaries. Decisions 2000 to date are also available via AustLII, which offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Australian Patent Office
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains selected decisions of the Australian Patent Office from 1981 to date. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Australian Press Council
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains adjudications of the Australian Press Council since 1976. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Australian Takeovers Panel
The Australian Takeovers Panel provides its decisions since 2000 as well as decisions from 1991 to 1997 prior to the Corporate Law Economic Reform Programme Act (CLERP). Decisions from 2000 to date are also available via AustLII, which offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Australian Tax Office
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) makes available a legal database which includes ATO interpretive decisions since 2000 as well as case decision summaries from prior years. The website also provides a collection of case judgments on taxation matters from Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and U.K. courts. All resources are browsable or searchable.

Australian Trade Marks Office
IP Australia provides trade mark decisions issued since 1992. The decisions are listed by year and are available as PDF files. Decisions of the Trade Marks Office from 1991 to date are also available via AustLII, which offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Copyright Tribunal
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains selected decisions of the Copyright Tribunal from 1982 to date. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Defence Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal
The Defence Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal provides access to its decisions since 1958. The decisions are listed in reverse chronological order by date, party and citation. Links to appeal decisions are also parovided. Decisions since 1999 are also available via AustLII, which offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Fair Work Australia
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains decisions of the Fair Work Australia from 2009 to date. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains decisions of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission from 1985 to 1999. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. The Commission's website provides complaint decisions under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 from 1994 to 2000.

Immigration Review Tribunal
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains decisions of the Immigration Review Tribunal from 1990 to January 1999. The Tribunal has closed. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. See the Migration Review Tribunal for later decisions.

Insurance Ombudsman Service Limited Privacy Compliance Committee
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains complaint determinations from the Insurance Ombudsman Service Limited Privacy Compliance Committee from 2004-2005. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Migration Review Tribunal
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains the complete collection of decisions of the Migration Review Tribunal from June 1, 1999 (the commencement date of the Tribunal) to May 12, 2004. Since then, only those decisions considered to be of particular interest are published. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. See the Immigration Review Tribunal for earlier decisions. The MRT-RRT Monthly Decisions Bulletin available on the Tribunal's website contains summaries of a selection of recent published decisions. Selected summaries of High Court, Federal Court and Federal Magistrates Court judgments are also included.

National Native Title Tribunal
The National Native Title Tribunal provides future act determinations from 1995 to date. The determinations can be browsed or searched to access summary information linked to full-text documents in PDF. Also available is searchable summary information about native title determinations from 1997 to date, with links to decisions of the Federal Court on AustLII. AustLII also contains Tribunal decisions from 1994 onwards with full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
This Office of the Australian Information Commissioner provides privacy complaint case notes from 2002 to date, complaint summaries from 1989 to 2002 and all complaint determinations since 1989. Selected case notes and all complaint determinations since 1989 are also available via AustLII, which offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.
Note: On 1 November 2010 the Office of the Privacy Commissioner was integrated into the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). The Privacy Commissioner site will be maintained until a site incorporating all OAIC material is established.

Refugee Review Tribunal
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains all published decisions of the Refugee Review Tribunal since 1985. Before June 1, 1999, all Tribunal decisions were published, but since then only selected decisions are published. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. The MRT-RRT Monthly Decisions Bulletin available on the Tribunal's website contains summaries of a selection of recent published decisions. Selected summaries of High Court, Federal Court and Federal Magistrates Court judgments are also included.

Australian Social Security Appeals Tribunal - Review of Child Support Agency
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains decisions of the Australian Social Security Appeals Tribunal - Review of Child Support Agency since 2007. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Superannuation Complaints Tribunal
This database, available via the AustLII website, contains all published decisions of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal since 2007. AustLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Case Law: States and Territories

Australian Capital Territory
Court of Appeal, 2002- >> Courts website >> AustLII
Supreme Court >> Courts website, 2002- >> AustLII, 1986-
Magistrates' Court, 2005- >> Courts website
Civil and Administrative Tribunal >> Tribunal website, 2009- >> AustLII, 2009 -
Administrative Appeals Tribunal, 1993-2009 >> AustLII
Commercial Tenancies Tribunal, Sept. 1995-Aug. 2001 >> Courts website
Discrimination Tribunal, 1998-2009 >> AustLII
Health Professions Tribunal, 2005- >> Courts website
Residential Tenancies Tribunal, 1998-2009 >> AustLII
Tenancy Tribunal, 1996-1998 >> AustLII
New South Wales
Supreme Court >> Lawlink NSW, 1999- >> AustLII, 1995-
Court of Appeal, 1999- >> Lawlink NSW >> AustLII
Court of Criminal Appeal, 1999- >> Lawlink NSW >> AustLII
Superior Courts of New South Wales >> Macquarie University, 1788-1899 >> AustLII, 1824-1832
Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court, 1999- >> AustLII
Compensation Court >> Lawlink NSW, 2001-2003 >> AustLII, 1985-2003
District Court, 2005- >> Lawlink NSW >> AustLII, 1992-
Drug Court >> Lawlink NSW, 1999- >> AustLII, 1999-
Land and Environment Court >> Lawlink NSW, 1999- >> AustLII, 1987-
Local Court, 2002- >> Lawlink NSW
Administrative Decisions Tribunal >> Lawlink NSW, 1998- >> AustLII, 1999-
Administrative Decisions Tribunal Appeal Panel >> Lawlink NSW, 1999- >> AustLII, 1999-
Chiropractors Tribunal, 2008- >> AustLII
Community Services Appeals Tribunal, 1998 >> AustLII
Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal, 2002- >> AustLII
Dust Diseases Tribunal >> Lawlink NSW, 2001- >> AustLII, 1989-
Fair Trading Tribunal, 1999-2001 >> Lawlink NSW >> AustLII
Guardianship Tribunal, 2004- >> AustLII
Industrial Relations Commission >> Lawlink NSW, 2000- >> AustLII, 1985-
Legal Services Tribunal, 1986-1998 >> Lawlink NSW
Medical Tribunal, 1999- >> Lawlink NSW
Office of State Revenue, 1985- >> Office website >> AustLII
Pecuniary Interest & Disciplinary Tribunal, 1994- >> Office website
Pharmacy Board, 1990- >> AustLII
Pharmacy Tribunal, 2009- >> AustLII
Physiotherapists Tribunal, 2007- >> AustLII
Psychologists Tribunal, 2007- >> AustLII
Residential Tribunal, 1987-2002 >> AustLII
Strata Schemes Board, 1997-2001 >> AustLII
Transport Appeal Boards, 2005- >> Board website
Victims Compensation Tribunal, 1998- >> Lawlink NSW
Workers Compensation Commission, 2002- >> Commission website
Norfolk Island
Supreme Court, 1996- >> AustLII
Northern Territory
Supreme Court, 1986- >> Court website >> AustLII
Court of Appeal >> Court website, 2004- >> AustLII, 2000-
Court of Criminal Appeal >> Court website, 2004- >> AustLII, 2000-
Magistrates Court, 2003- >> Court website >> AustLII, 2002-
Anti-Discrimination Commission >> Justice website, 1995- >> AustLII, 1996-
Lands, Planning and Mining Tribunal, Sept. 2002- >> Justice website
Licensing Commission, 1999- >> Justice website
Mental Health Review Tribunal, 2000- >> Justice website
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, 2000- >> Justice website
Office of the Information Commissioner, 2005- >> Justice website
Residential Tenancies Commissioner >> Justice website, 2002-2005 >> AustLII, 2006-
Queensland
Supreme Court: Court of Appeal >> Courts website, 1992- (summary notes) >> AustLII, 1992-
Supreme Court: Trial Division >> Courts website, 2000- >> AustLII, 1994-
District Court  >> Courts website, 2000- >> AustLII, 1999-
Industrial Court >> QIRC website, 1990- >> AustLII, 1999-
Land Appeal Court >> Courts website, 1985- >> AustLII, 2009-
Land Court >> Courts website, 1985- >> AustLII, 2009-
Mental Health Court >> Courts website, 2002- >> AustLII, 2002-
Planning and Environment Court >> Courts website, 2000- >> AustLII, 1999-
Anti-Discrimination Tribunal, 1992-2009 >> AustLII
Body Corporate and Community Management Commissioner, 2000- >> AustLII
Building Tribunal, 1994-2003 >> AustLII
Children Services Tribunal, 2003-2009 >> AustLII
Civil and Administrative Tribunal >> Courts website, 2009- >> AustLII, 2009-
Commercial and Consumer Tribunal: Architects List, 2004-2008 >> AustLII
Commercial and Consumer Tribunal: Body Corporate and Community Management List, 2007-2008 >> AustLII
Commercial and Consumer Tribunal: Building List, 2003-2009 >> AustLII
Commercial and Consumer Tribunal: Engineers List, 2003-2009 >> AustLII
Commercial and Consumer Tribunal: Gaming List, 2004-2005 >> AustLII
Commercial and Consumer Tribunal: Liquor List, 2003-2009 >> AustLII
Commercial and Consumer Tribunal: Manufactured Homes List, 2004-2009 >> AustLII
Commercial and Consumer Tribunal: Plumbers and Drainers List, 2004-2009 >> AustLII
Commercial and Consumer Tribunal: Property Agents & Motor Dealers List, 2003-2009 >> AustLII
Commercial and Consumer Tribunal: Retirement Villages List, 2003-2009 >> AustLII
Health Practitioners Tribunal, 2000-2010 >> Courts website
Guardianship and Administration Tribunal, 2000-2009 >> AustLII
Industrial Relations Commission >> QIRC website, 1990- >> AustLII, 1999-
Information Commissioner, 1993- >> AustLII
Land and Resources Tribunal, 2000- >> Tribunal website >> AustLII
Legal Practice Tribunal, 2004-2009 >> Courts website >> AustLII
Liquor Appeals Tribunal, 1992-2003 >> AustLII
Medical Assessment Tribunal, 2000-2001 >> Courts website
Mining Wardens, 1993-2000 >> AustLII
Property Agents and Motor Dealers Tribunal, 2002-2003 >> AustLII
Racing Appeals Authority, 2002-June 2003 >> AustLII
Racing Appeals Tribunal, 2003-2009 >> AustLII
Retail Shop Leasing Tribunal, 1984-2009 >> Courts website
Retirement Villages Tribunal, 2001-2002 >> AustLII
South Australia
Supreme Court, 1989- >> AustLII
Supreme Court - Full Court, 2010- >> AustLII
District Court, 1992- >> AustLII
Environment Resources and Development Court >> Courts website, 2003- >> AustLII, 1996-
Equal Opportunity Tribunal, 2004- >> AustLII
Industrial Relations Court >> Tribunals website, recent decisions >> AustLII, 1992-
Licensing Court, 1994- >> AustLII
Disciplinary Appeals Tribunal >> Tribunals website, recent decisions
Industrial Relations Commission >> Tribunals website, recent decisions >> AustLII, 1991-
Liquor and Gambling Commissioner, 2002- >> AustLII
Residential Tenancies Tribunal, 1996- >> AustLII
Residential Tenancies Tribunal - Residential Parks, 2008- >> AustLII
Teachers Appeal Board >> Tribunals website, recent decisions
Wardens Court, 1994- >> AustLII
WorkCover Levy Review Panel, 2000- >> AustLII
Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal >> Tribunals website, recent decisions >> AustLII, 1991-
Workers Compensation Tribunal >> Tribunals website, recent decisions>> AustLII, 1996-
Tasmania
Supreme Court, 1987- >> AustLII
Supreme Court - Full Court, 2010- >> AustLII
Supreme Court - Court of Criminal Appeal, 2010- >> AustLII
Decisions of the 19th Century Tasmanian Superior Courts, 1824-1843 >> Macquarie University
Magistrates Court: Anti-Discrimination Tribunal, 2000- >> Courts website >> AustLII
Magistrates Court: Coronial Division, 2000- >> Courts website
Guardianship and Administration Board, 2003- >> Justice website
Resource Management and Planning Appeal Tribunal, 1994- >> AustLII
Industrial Commission >> Justice website, 1985-
Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Tribunal, 2004- >> AustLII
Victoria
Supreme Court - Court of Appeal >> Court website, recent decisions >> AustLII, 1998
Supreme Court - Trial Division >> Court website, recent decisions >> AustLII, 1994-
County Court, 1993- >> Court website >> AustLII
Magistrates' Court >> Court website, selected decisions >> AustLII, 2006-
Anti-Discrimination Tribunal, 1995-1998- >> AustLII
Civil and Administrative Tribunal, 1998- >> AustLII
Civil and Administrative Tribunal/Administrative Appeals Tribunal, 1989-1999 >> AustLII
Domestic Building Tribunal, 1996-1998 >> AustLII
Legal Profession Tribunal, 1997-2005 >> AustLII
Mental Health Review Board, 1987- >> AustLII
Planning Panels, 2001- >> AustLII
Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner, 2003- >> Commissioner's website >> AustLII
Racing Appeals Tribunal, 1984- >> AustLII
Western Australia
Supreme Court >> Court website, 1991- >> AustLII, 1996-
Supreme Court - Court of Appeal >> Court website, 1991->> AustLII, 1998-
District Court >> Court website, 1996- >> AustLII, 1999-
Criminal Injuries Compensation Assessor, 2004- >> AustLII
Equal Opportunity Tribunal, 2004 >> Justice website
Guardianship and Administration Board >> Justice website, 2001-2005 >> AustLII, 2004-2005
Industrial Relations Commission, 1991- >> AustLII
Information Commissioner, 1994- >> AustLII
State Administrative Tribunal >> Justice website, 2001- >> AustLII, 2005-
Strata Titles Referee, 2004 >> Justice website >> AustLII
Town Planning Appeal Tribunal >> Justice website, 2003 >> AustLII, 2003-2004

Case Law: New Zealand

Supreme Court of New Zealand
The Courts of New Zealand website provides access to the full text of Supreme Court judgments from 2004 to date. Decisions are generally made available within a day of being delivered by the court. Also available on the site are transcripts, case summaries, daily lists and a list of upcoming cases. Additionally, a section called "Judicial Decisions of Public Interest" includes recent criminal sentences and judgments of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court in which there may be public interest. The site has a search engine. The Ministry of Justice also provides Judicial Decisions Online, a searchable database which includes Supreme Court decisions in PDF since 2004. AustLII provides selected decisions of the Supreme Court since 2004 and offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Supreme Court Judgments: 2004 to date; ordered by year and file number, case name and date. Media advisory notes provided where available. Selected decisions also available via AustLII from 2004 onward.
Transcripts: 2004 to date.
Case Summaries: 2004 to date.
Judicial Decisions of Public Interest: Criminal sentences and judgments maintained on site for 28 days.
Judicial Decisions Online: All decisions from 2004 to date on the Ministry of Justice website.
NZLII: Selected decisions from 2004 to date.

Court of Appeal of New Zealand
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions released by the Court of Appeal of New Zealand from 1999 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. The Ministry of Justice also provides Judicial Decisions Online, a searchable database which includes Court of Appeal decisions in PDF since 2003. The Courts of New Zealand website provides a section called "Judicial Decisions of Public Interest," which includes recent criminal sentences and judgments of the Court of Appeal in which there may be public interest.

High Court of New Zealand
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions released by the Court of Appeal of New Zealand from 2005 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. The Ministry of Justice also provides Judicial Decisions Online, a searchable database which includes High Court decisions in PDF since August 2005. The Courts of New Zealand website provides a section called "Judicial Decisions of Public Interest," which includes recent criminal sentences and judgments of the High Court in which there may be public interest.

Employment Court of New Zealand
The Ministry of Justice website provides decisions of the Employment Court of New Zealand from July 1, 2006 to date. Decisions are listed by year and month and are available in PDF. Selected decisions from 2007 to date are also available on NZLII, which offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent documents list.

Environment Court of New Zealand
The Ministry of Justice website provides recent decisions of the Environment Court of New Zealand. The decisions are listed by year and month and are available in PDF.

Family Court of New Zealand
The Ministry of Justice website provides decisions of the Family Court of New Zealand from 2006 to date. The decisions can be accessed by category from a drop-down list and are available in PDF.

Maori Appellate Court
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions released by the Maori Appellate Court of New Zealand from 1986 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. The Ministry of Justice website contains judgments of the Maori Appellate Court 1993 onwards in PDF.

Maori Land Court
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions of the Maori Land Court of New Zealand from 1996 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. The Ministry of Justice website contains judgments of the Maori Land Court from 2010 in PDF.

Youth Court of New Zealand
The Youth Court decisions database located on the Ministry of Justice website contains case summaries of decisions from 1989 to date. Case summaries are organized by topic, by section of the Children Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989, or by year.

Tribunals / Topical Collections

Accident Compensation Appeals
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains New Zealand Accident Compensation Appeals from 2001 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Advertising Standards Complaints Board
The Advertising Standards Authority provides decisions of the Advertising Standards Complaints Board (ASCB) from 2000 to date. Also provided is an ASCB Decisions Reference Database, which can be searched by phrases such as company names and product descriptions. Users can also generate lists of decisons by a media type, by a code applied, and by the product involved in the advertisement. The executive summaries of the current year's decisions are linked from the lists generated.

Broadcasting Standards Authority
The Broadcasting Standards Authority provides a searchable database of its decisions from 1995 to date. The decisions can be searched using decision-number, broadcaster, name of the complainant, name of the programme, the year of the decision, the Standard involved (e.g., privacy) or any other keywords. A browsable list of latest decisions is also provided. The decisions are also available on NZLII, which offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent documents list.

Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission makes available the Commission's numbered decision series relating to mergers and acquisitions, anti-competitive practices, and electricity and dairy industries from January 1997 to date. The decisions are in PDF format. Selected decisions since 1997 are also available on NZLII, which offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent documents list.

Complaints Review Tribunal
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains decisions of the Complaints Review Tribunal from 1994 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Copyright Tribunal
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions of the Copyright Tribunal from 1977 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Customs Appeal Authority
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions of the Customs Appeal Authority from 2004 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Deportation Review Tribunal
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions of the Deportation Review Tribunal of New Zealand from 2007 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Disputes Tribunal
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions of the Disputes Tribunal of New Zealand from 2007 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Employment Relations Authority Decisions
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains New Zealand Employment Relations Authority decisions from 2007 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Film and Literature Board of Review
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions of the New Zealand Film and Literature Board of Review from 2004 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Human Rights Review Tribunal
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains decisions of the Human Rights Review Tribunal from 2002 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. The Human Rights Commission website provides case notes of disputes which include Human Rights Commission opinions and Human Rights Review Tribunal decisions since 1999. The case notes are available in PDF. Human Rights Review Tribunal decisions from 2002 to date are available on NZLII, which offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent decisions list.

Intellectual Property Office—Designs Decisions
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains designs decisions of the Intellectual Property Office from 1958 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Intellectual Property Office—Patents Decisions
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains patents decisions of the Intellectual Property Office from 1957 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Intellectual Property Office—Trade Marks Decisions
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains trade marks decisions of the Intellectual Property Office from 1955 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Land Valuation Tribunal
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions of the Land Valuation Tribunal from 2000 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains decisions of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal from 2009 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Legal Complaints Review Officer
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains decisions of the New Zealand Legal Complaints Review Officer from 2009 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Licensing Authority of Secondhand Dealers and Pawnbrokers
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains decisions of the New Zealand Licensing Authority of Secondhand Dealers and Pawnbrokers from 2005 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Liquor Licensing Authority
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains decisions of the New Zealand Liquor Licensing Authority from 2000 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal
The Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal provides summary information and all the full decisions and orders of the Tribunal. Also available is a listing of the most commonly cited cases organized by subject matter. All documents are provided in PDF.

Mental Health Review Tribunal
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions of the new Zealand Mental Health Review Tribunal from 2009 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Motor Vehicle Disputes Tribunal
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains decisions of the Motor Vehicle Disputes Tribunal of New Zealand since 2006. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

New Zealand Health and Safety in Employment Decisions
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains New Zealand Health and Safety in Employment decisions as selected and provided by the University of Canterbury Law Library from 1997 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

New Zealand Refugee Law (RefNZ)
The New Zealand Refugee Law website provides the full text of all the leading decisions of New Zealand's Refugee Status Appeals Authority (RSAA) as well as the practice notes of the RSAA. The full text of New Zealand High Court and Court of Appeal cases dealing with refugee issues is separately provided together with headnotes and a contents index.

New Zealand Tax Cases
CCH New Zealand makes available recent cases not yet available in print in New Zealand Tax Cases. Cases are provided in PDF and are kept on the website only until they have been reported.

Privacy Commissioner
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected cases of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner from 1996 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list. Case notes from 1995 to date are also available on the Commissioner's website.

Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions of the new Zealand Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal from 2010 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Refugee Status Appeals Authority
The Refugee Status Appeals Authority (RSAA) website provides access to a searchable database containing New Zealand's refugee jurisprudence, including abstracts (headnotes) and full-text copies of all published decisions and minutes since 1997, with a selection of decisions from 1991 to 1996 and abstracts of relevant decisions of New Zealand's High Court and Court of Appeal. The decisions are available in HTML and PDF.

Social Security Appeal Authority
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains decisions of the Social Security Appeal Authority from 2003 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Student Allowance Appeal Authority
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains decisions of the Student Allowance Appeal Authority of New Zealand from 2004 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent cases list.

Taxation Review Authority
This database, available via the NZLII website, contains selected decisions of the New Zealand Taxation Review Authority from 2006 to date. NZLII offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent documents list.

Waitangi Tribunal
The Waitangi Tribunal provides access to many of its reports, or parts of its reports, on claims brought by Maori relating to the practical application of the Treaty of Waitangi. Users can browse the reports by title or search by word or phrase.

Weathertight Homes Tribunal
The Ministry of Justice website provides a searchable database of Weathertight Homes Tribunal decisions since 2003. The decisions can be searched by keyword or browsed by year and are available in PDF. Relevant decisions of other courts which the Tribunal considers as highly relevant can be browsed. Tribunal decisions from 2002 to date and Tribunal eligibility decisions from 2008 are available on NZLII, which offers full database search options, a case name search, an alphabetical browse listing, and a recent decisions list.

Legislation: Australia (Commonwealth)

ComLaw
ComLaw is the legal information retrieval system of the Australian Attorney-General's Department. It contains Commonwealth primary legislation as made since 1973, ancillary documents and information related to legislation, the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI), previous compilations of the law as amended, and legislation of the Commonwealth that is no longer in force. New Acts are normally available on ComLaw shortly after assent, and Act compilations are generally available when the amendments commence. Users can browse or search all legislation. Notes appended to the legislation provide legislative history, explanatory statements and supplementary material.
Note: SCALEplus data migration is now complete and SCALEplus was officially decommissioned on 8 October 2010.

Browse Acts, Legislative Instruments and Bills
Act Compilations: By title; current or superseded (point in time) versions.
Acts (as made 1973+): By title or number/year.
Legislative Instrument Compilations: By title; current or superseded versions.
Legislative Instruments (as made): By title or registration/publication date.
Select LI and Stat Rules Compilations: By title or number/year; current or superseded versions.
Select LIs and Stat Rules (as made): By title, number/year or registration/publication date.
Bills (1996+): By title, portfolio or year.
Search Current or Historical Law 
Legislation Tables

Commonwealth of Australia Gazettes
The Government Notices Gazettes, including Special and Periodic Gazettes, are published by the Attorney-General's Department. The regular Government Notices Gazette is published each Wednesday and contains a range of notices including information about legislation, notices of Australian Government Departments, Courts notices, and other notices required under Commonwealth law. The Special Gazette normally contains a single notice, and may be published at any time. Special Gazettes published during the week are republished at the end of the next regular Government Notices Gazette. The Periodic Gazette is published irregularly and may contain multiple notices relating to a specific subject area.

Parliament of Australia
The Australian Parliament's website provides access to information about the business and proceedings of the House of Representatives and the Senate and the bills before Parliament, including the full text of House and Senate Hansards (available each morning following a sitting day), Bills before Parliament, which contains texts of bills with links to related documents, and committee reports. Official volumes of Hansard are available back to the first session of the 38th Parliament commencing April 30, 1996. Commonwealth bills and explanatory memoranda/supplementary material from 1996 to date are also provided on ComLaw.


Legislation: States and Territories

The state and territorial parliamentary or legislative assembly websites provide links to a substantial amount of legislative information, including Hansards, bills, numbered acts and regulations (i.e. as originally passed) and reprints (consolidations), and gazettes. Consolidated acts and subordinate legislation are also available via AustLII; however, the state and territory websites often provide more current information.

Other Territories

Non-self-governing Territories
SCALEplus, the legal information retrieval system of the Australian Attorney-General's Department, provides access to numbered and consolidated ordinances and regulations for the following non-self-governing territories: Ashmore and Cartier Islands, the Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island Cocos-Keeling Island, the Coral Sea Islands Territory, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, and the Jervis Bay Territory.
Note: Most of the existing material in SCALEplus is being migrated to ComLaw; the legislation of the non-self-governing Territories is still to be migrated.

Norfolk Island
Numbered and consolidated acts and regulations as well as legislation tables are available on the Norfolk Island website.

Legislation: New Zealand

New Zealand Legislation
The New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO) provides access access to current versions (with amendments incorporated) of the Acts of Parliament, regulations and bills. New Acts are updated within five working days of Royal assent and new regulations the day after the date they are notified in the Gazette. Users can browse the legislation alphabetically by title, year, type and version, or search using quick, guided, or advanced search options.

New Zealand Gazette
The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs makes available on its website the online version of the official newspaper of the Government of New Zealand. The New Zealand Gazette provides access to commercial and government notices, covering business proceedings, bankruptcies, land transfer notices, departmental and parliamentary notices. The Gazette is published every Thursday; the customs edition containing information on tariff advertisements and tariff decisions is published weekly on Tuesdays. Issues are available in PDF back to 2000. Also available is a database of notices back to 1993 accessible by year and Act of Parliament or category.

New Zealand Parliament
The website of the New Zealand Parliament provides access to information about the business and proceedings of the House of Representatives and the bills before Parliament, including the full text of parliamentary debates (Hansard), the progress of bills and bills before committees, and committee reports. Also available are bills digests created by the New Zealand Parliamentary Library containing digests from 1998 onwards.

Parliament
Debates (Hansard)   Select Committee Reports
Bills   Progress of Legislation   Bills before Select Committees
Bills Digests