ALLA (WA) News Blog

It is all a buzz here as Legal Aid WA is on the move to new premises. We officially close the doors at 5pm on 28th May and open again on Tuesday the 2nd June at Level 2, 32 St Georges Terrace, Perth (the re-built May Holman building), now called Golden Square. Our phone numbers, email addresses etc. all remain the same, only our fax number has changed to 9261 6554. Anyway Judy and I are very excited and we shall invite you all for a look see at our beautiful new space very soon. Have a great long weekend and think about me directing removalist whilst you sip your wine in the sun. Cheers Deb Harvey Librarian Legal Aid WA

Good morning, The Law Library, Supreme Court of WA is looking for other libraries in WA which may hold the decisions of the Third Party Claims Tribunal . If any holding library could contact me, together with their holdings details, I would be grateful. Many thanks, ALLA(WA) Member - Belinda Eisenhauer Librarian, The Law Library, Supreme Court of WA

Author Alex Johnson was recently interviewed on Late Night Live (Radio National) on the topic of his book Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World's Most Unusual Libraries . Some of the intriguing and amazing libraries that he discusses include subway and taxi-based libraries in South America, animal-driven mobile libraries (camels and donkeys!), tiny lending libraries, and grassroots libraries like that of Occupy Wall Street. You can read a summary or download the interview from the RN website . Link contributed by ALLA(WA) Member - Catherine Macgill Law Librarian, Law Library, Supreme Court of Western Australia

Collaborate and Learn ALLA is proud to collaborate with LexisNexis to bring you this webinar series. ALLA will continue to collaborate with leaders in the information industry to bring you the expertise to help you turn information into knowledge. Webinar: Mitigation financial, regulatory and reputational risk Now more than ever law firms are under pressure to better understand their prospects, clients, litigation opponents, IOP/M&A targets and business associates to help mitigate their financial, regulatory and reputational risk and reduce liability. Join this 1 hour webinar to gain an understanding of the; Current anti-corruption and compliance landscape Regulators expectations Recent enforcement activity Due diligence process (from free > paid > risk advisors) You can see the full invitation, with some information about the speaker, Mark Dunn, he re . Registration only takes a minute, click here to sign up or follow the links in the invitation .

Image by Horia Varlan from Flickr , used under CC BY 2.0 Roshan Khadka from the Copyright Agency gave a presentation on Copyright Licensing and the Copyright Act to 11 ALLA (WA) members yesterday, 20th May 2015. While law firms are regularly assisted by helpful sections in the Copyright Act 1968 (s 43), most people don’t realise that they are in fact violating the Copyright Act when: A fee earner or staff member emails an news article to another fee earner or staff member about a client or current situation A fee earner forwards a news or journal article – something published – internally to another employee or externally on to a client or a friend A staff member goes to a competitor’s website, downloads an article or newsletter that the competitor firm has written and forwards it internally to another staff member. A fee earner is writing an article for marketing purposes and needs to research the position and therefore downloads a mass of articles from their LexisNexis subs...

Dear members, The State Solicitors Office released a communication on Monday 18 May 2015 about the future of the Law Library at the Supreme Court of Western Australia, please see the attached notice. Consultation seminars and workshops have been organised to aid in addressing any questions from the profession. These seminars will be held on Monday, 25 May from 1.00-2.00pm, Monday, 25 May from 4.30-5.30pm, and Friday, 29 May from 9.00-10.00am at the Law Society , Level 5, 160 St Georges Terrace, Perth. If you would like to attend one of the sessions please register with Emily Negus at the State Solicitors Office either by telephone (08) 9264 1888 or E.Negus@sso.wa.gov.au . I will be attending one of these sessions, and intend to seek clarification regarding access to the Law Library collection for librarians and library staff; and how inter-library loans and requests will be handled. I would encourage everyone to either attend or provide feedback.  If you are unable...

In preparation for our upcoming Copyright and Law Firms event (RSVP by 18th May!), this brief blog post from the Australian Libraries Copyright Committee is worth a read. The piece describes the contradiction between copyright parameters prescribed by law and the restrictive licences drafted by many content providers. If we transferred this way of thinking to the print world, it wouldn't make sense: Imagine a world where every book on every library shelf had different terms and conditions of use. Where before book was borrowed a ledger was consulted as to acceptable uses for that book. Where some books may be taken home, others read only in the library, still others only read by certain people, at certain times and in certain ways. But this is the world that we create with licenced resources. The post points to international position statements as well as copyright reform proposals that would disallow licences from overriding use rights granted by copyright law. The next ...