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Bar Library during heightened COVID-19 restrictions

Fri Jul 23 2021

The library will be closed to visitors until Friday 30th of July. The librarians will be working from home between 9am to 5pm and will be contactable by email libref@nswbar.asn.au. No hard copy materials may be borrowed during this time. Any books currently on loan will not be due back until the premises reopen.

New judgments

Fri Jul 16 2021

Bathurst Resources Limited v L & M Coal Holdings Limited [2021] NZSC 85 - contract interpretation, what evidence outside the words of the contract should be allowed to assist in interpretation

Goknur Gida Maddeleri Enerji Imalet Ithalat Ihracat Ticaret Ve Sanayi AS v Aytacli [2021] EWCA Civ 1037 - "For those who believe that most civil litigation does not end up being about the costs that were incurred in pursuing that same litigation in the first place, look away now."...

Bar Library during heightened COVID-19 restrictions

Fri Jul 16 2021

The library will be closed to visitors until Friday 30th of July. The librarians will be working from home between 9am to 5pm and will be contactable by email libref@nswbar.asn.au. No hard copy materials may be borrowed during this time. Any books currently on loan will not be due back until the premises reopen.

Interesting articles, speeches and podcasts

Fri Jul 09 2021

The challenge for courts in a moderately rigid constitution by Scott Stephenson in Melbourne University Law Review (advance) - "A moderately rigid constitution weakens the normative case for the judiciary to develop the constitution to, for example, expand protection for rights and freedoms, yet places considerable practical demands on courts to undertake such developments."

International law and the provocation of the digital presented by Fleur Johns, Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law...

Bar Library during heightened COVID-19 restrictions

Fri Jul 09 2021

The library will be closed to visitors until 16 July 2021. The librarians will be working from home between 9am to 5pm and will be contactable by email libref@nswbar.asn.au. No hard copy materials may be borrowed during this time. Any books currently on loan will not be due back until the premises reopen.

Do you know about our excellent unreported judgments collection?

Fri Jul 02 2021

We have a collection of .pdf unreported judgments that are available remotely via the library catalogue, just go here, log into the catalogue as yourself and then search for the case (best approach is to put the most distinctive word from the party name in the parties field). Note that you can narrow by year etc on the right hand side of the page. Once you have found the judgment click on the icon that looks like a white page with a red e on it.

Have your say - Open justice review

Fri Jul 02 2021

Have your say on the New South Wales Law Reform Commission's Open justice review - Court and tribunal information : access, disclosure and publication.

Views on the draft proposals are due by Monday 2 August 2021. See details here.

Are you using Lexis Red?

Fri Jul 02 2021

We subscribe to Lexis Red, a service that enables you to access LexisNexis loose-leaf services remotely on your desktop computer, laptop or tablet.

To subscribe just email lexisred@nswbar.asn.au with your Bar Association member number and the email address that you want to use for the platform...

Bar Library during heightened COVID-19 restrictions

Fri Jul 02 2021

The library will be closed to visitors from Monday 28 June 2021 to Friday 9 July 2021. The librarians will be working from home between 9am to 5pm and will be contactable by email libref@nswbar.asn.au. No hard copy materials may be borrowed during this time. Any books currently on loan will not be due back until the following week.

Bar Library during heightened COVID-19 restrictions

Fri Jun 25 2021

The library will be closed to visitors from Monday 28 June 2021 to Friday 2 July 2021. The librarians will be working from home between 9am to 5pm and will be contactable by email libref@nswbar.asn.au. No hard copy materials may be borrowed during this time. Any books currently on loan will not be due back until the following week.