ALLA (WA) News Blog

Natalie McDonald has commenced at Ashurst as a Research Librarian.  This is part time (Monday – Wednesday) replacing Lei Lin who is on maternity leave.  Natalie is also working part time at Williams& Hughes (Thurs & Friday) as a Librarian. Gisella Warman has commenced at Tottle Partners as an Information Resources Manager replacing Kirsty McPhee.  Gisella is working part time, Monday and Wednesday. Kirsty McPhee will be leaving Tottle Partners to take a position with Hancock Prospecting as an Assistant Information Manager.  Kirsty will commence her new role on November 26.   Kirsty will be staying on the ALLA Board as her role is a combination of litigation support and information management.  Kirsty can be contacted via LinkedIn . Congratulations to everyone!

Earlier this year the online legal database Justis and case citator JustCite combined to form the new platform JustisOne . The JustisOne case citator cross-references case law with UK legislation and continues JustCite's excellent feature of providing access to reported versions of cases via direct links from citations to the source of the report (where they are available) from publishers as diverse as Westlaw, LexisNexis, and ICLR. A free-to-ALLA (WA) members web-based training sessio n will be held at 3pm Perth time Tuesday the 27th of November . Participants need a reliable internet connection, a PC with audio output (ie: speakers or headphones). The session will last approximately 45 minutes. For further information and to sign up to take part, please email Stephen Griffiths by 4pm Thursday the 22nd of November.

Of interest to those consulting Western Australian legislation, the Legislation Bill 2018 had its third reading speech yesterday in the Legislative Assembly. The Bill seeks to give official status to the electronic versions of the Government Gazette and other WA legislation! From the explanatory memorandum : This Bill proposes to modernise the processes for publishing WA legislation. It will enact a new Legislation Act that sets out the responsibilities for publishing WA legislation, provides for the official status of both hard copy and electronic versions of WA legislation and gives Parliamentary Counsel’s Office (PCO) a more useful set of editorial powers so that WA legislation can be kept up-to-date, modernised and simplified, and errors in it can be corrected, without the need for the changes to be enacted by Parliament. Important restrictions on the exercise of those editorial powers will remain. The Reprints Act 1984 will be repealed. In line with conferring official s...

We would love for members to join us for a scrumptious buffet breakfast to celebrate the festive season. Where: Miss Maud Restaurant - 97 Murray Street, Perth WA 6000 When: Wednesday 5th December, 2018 Time: From 7:15 am Cost: $10 per person. Payment by cash or email David McDowell for bank details to pay electronically by 23rd November 2018. RSVP: by COB Friday 23rd November 2018 via email to David McDowell .

A full time Library Team Leader position has been advertised on the WA Public Service job site.  The Department of Justice is  seeking a qualified law librarian with considerable knowledge and experience who can make a significant contribution to the delivery of a high level library and information service to judicial and legal officers and to the legal profession in Western Australia. A pool position for librarian has also been advertised.   Applications for both positions close 2 November 2018.

Sunil Saale, Minter Ellison's Head of Cyber and Information Security, presented a lunch time seminar on cybersecurity on the 10th of August 2018 - a recording of that seminar is now available for ALLA members to access on the ALLA National website .

ALLA (WA) and our sponsor BarNet Jade invites you to the 2018 Spring Icebreaker. During this event we will hear from a few attendees of the 2018 ALLA conference in Darwin. Where: The George (London Room) -216 St Georges Terrace, Perth When: Wednesday 12th September 2018 Time: 5:30 - 8.00 pm Cost: $10 for members / $20 non-members. Payment by cash or email David McDowell for bank details to pay electronically by 5th September. Cost includes 6 canapes per person. Drinks will be available for purchase but not included in cost. Please RSVP by COB Thursday 6th September 2018 to David McDowell: dmcdowell@jacmac.com.au