ALLA (WA) News Blog

The Department of Sport and Recreation may be able to offer work for a few weeks on a project to review and collate legal documents.  Please contact Renae Clement if you are interested, or know someone who may be. Renae Clement Librarian / Actg FOI Coordinator Department of Sport and Recreation Clearinghouse for Sport (WA Branch) (08) 9492 9870 or (08) 9492 9869 renae.clement@dsr.wa.gov.au

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/the-library-of-discarded-books-20130504-2izs2.html

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/but-what-if-i-cant-find-it-on-the-internet-20130526-2n5g5.html

Want to hear the next Call to the Bar? Justin is planning a bar hop mid-June so let him know if you want to come along.

Catherine Macgill (Law Librarian, Law Library, Supreme Court of WA) states - The current state of plans for the future of the Law Library collection is as follows. The recommendation to the Attorney General is that practitioners will have access to the new Supreme Court Library on a user-pays basis.  There has not as yet been any memorandum of understanding drawn up. A project team to resolve the issue (among other things) of service to practitioners is to be established with members from the Law Society, the Legal Practice Board, the Judiciary and the Department of the Attorney General.  This committee has not yet met. The State Reference Library and the City of Perth Library have been approached with the view to housing a law collection for public access.  Neither party was interested in doing so.

CPD seminar Wednesday, 15 May 2013 The rights of the unborn child, as the law currently stands in WA and the proposed amendments Mrs Lorraine Finlay, lecturer in criminal law at the Murdoch University School of Law, addressed a group of 15 delegates at a lunchtime brown bag seminar in Downings boardroom on Wednesday, 15 May.  She spoke on the rights of the unborn child, addressing a neglected area in WA legislation, and citing some cases which had touched the general public where, through no fault of the expectant mother, the unborn child had been lost through criminal action, without any recourse for justice.  Her fascinating presentation led to many questions from the floor, and further discussion in this informal setting.  In addition, some new points were raised, much to Lorraine's delight!  We all came away with some issues to digest. Thank you, Linda, for your hospitality at Downings! Belinda Eisenhauer

Joint Studies Institute Melbourne 13-16 February 2013 Report : Belinda Eisenhauer Introduction Kirsty and I were fortunate to attend the JSI Conference in Melbourne in mid-February 2013. We stayed in the conference hotel, the Rydges on Swanston Street, on the campus of Melbourne University, 10 minutes walk to the Law School (the oldest in the country, opening its doors in 1857). The thoroughness of the planning was evident from the start, with regular updates being issued to those who had registered, with useful tips such as where to find the weather conditions (especially for the international visitors) and the dress code for the three evening functions. No single detail had been forgotten – even the newly-introduced Myki electronic travel card had been provided for each delegate, ready for us to collect at our hotel reception. The JSI Conference has been hosted once before in Australia - in Sydney in 2004. There were 50 delegates from common law countries such a...