Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian law

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Australian law. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

1 Title
2 Tasks
3 Scope
4 Participants
5 Resources
6 Similar WikiProjects
7 General strategy and discussion forums

[edit] Title

WikiProject on Australian law

[edit] Tasks

Open Tasks for **Australian law** (edit this list)
Newly added	Editing / formatting / cleanup	Missing articles	Expansion
Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration Law Council of Australia Law Institute of Victoria	Australian tort law Norfolk Island Court of Petty Sessions Supreme Court of Norfolk Island	Magistrates' Court of Western Australia Magistrates' Court of the Australian Capital Territory Magistrates' Court of the Northern Territory District Court of Queensland Family Trust	Australian contract law Australian court hierarchy Australian criminal law Australian administrative law Australian family law Australian insurance law Australian property law Australian labour law Family Court of Australia Family Court of Western Australia Magistrates' Court of Tasmania Magistrates' Court of Queensland Public trustee
Merges	Discussions	Crossreferences
none as yet	none as yet	none as yet

[edit] Scope

The areas covered by this WikiProject are listed below. Each area has its own page for the discussion and formulation of guidelines and conventions, as well as for listing examples of the best articles. If a page does not yet exist for a particular area, feel free to create it and propose how that part of the Project might be organised.

[edit] General

General

Articles on areas of Australian law (eg. Australian constitutional law) aswell as articles that don't fit into any of the other categories.
Law of Australia

In planning

Of x articles, y exist.

[edit] Judicature

Courts

Federal courts and tribunals, aswell as courts and tribunals of the States and Territories.
Australian court hierarchy | Category:Australian courts

In planning

Of x articles, y exist.

Judges

Judges/justices/magistrates of all the Australian courts and tribunals.
Category:Australian judges

Many still stubs

Of 44 articles, 27 exist, only a few are detailed.

[edit] Legislation

Legislation

Important acts and regulations made by the various Australian parliaments and governmental bodies.
List of Australian federal legislation | Category:Australian legislation

In planning

Of x articles, y exist.

[edit] Case law

Case law

Significant cases decided by Australian courts. Possibly subdivided into smaller categories for each of the areas of Australian law.
Category:High Court of Australia cases

In planning

Of x articles, y exist.

[edit] Participants

[edit] Resources

[edit] Infoboxes

Template:Infobox Court Case: See the talk page for usage guidelines.

Template:Infobox AU Legislation: See the talk page for usage guidelines.

[edit] Templates

{{Australia-law-stub}}: Adds a stub notice, and categorises article in Category:Australian law stubs.
{{AusLawTasks}}: Adds the Open Tasks box that can be seen on the Project's talk page.
{{WPAL}}: To be used on talk pages, provides a short blurb saying that the article is related to this project.
{{Cite Case AU}}: Provides a link to the full text of a case, from any one of a range of different state, territory and federal report series available on the AustLII site, including courts and tribunals. For most sources, uses the medium neutral citation system, except for High Court cases, for which it can generate links to cases using the Commonwealth Law Reports citation (although it does not link to the Commonwealth Law Reports version).; See the talk page for full usage instructions, and a list of supported report series. This template replaces the old {{Citation CLR}}, {{Citation HCA}} and {{Citation HCATrans}} templates.