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Australian law articles Importance None Total Quality FA 2 2 A 2 2 GA 4 4 B 11 11 Start 43 43 Stub 58 58 Assessed 120 120 Unassessed 234 234 Total 354 354

The WikiProject Australian law is a project to better organise information in articles related to the law of Australia.

Articles maintained by this WikiProject are grouped in Category:WikiProject Australian law articles by using the law=yes parameter with the {{WP Australia}} template.

Usage: {{WP Australia|law=yes}}

Contents 1 Tasks 2 Scope 2.1 General 2.2 Judicature 2.3 Legislation 2.4 Case law 3 Participants 3.1 Userbox 4 Resources 4.1 Infoboxes 4.2 Templates 4.3 Useful categories 5 Parentage 6 Similar WikiProjects 7 General strategy and discussion forums

[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	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 the Australian Capital Territory Magistrates' Court of Tasmania Magistrates' Court of the Northern Territory Magistrates' Court of Queensland Magistrates' Court of Western Australia * 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) as well 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, as well 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

• Aaronhill
• Ambi
• An An
• Assize
• bilious
• cartman02au
• cj | talk
• daveyork | talk
• Enochlau
• Sambo | talk
• Jpeob
• JROBBO
• Kewpid
• Longhair
• Lanyon
• Millennial
• MojoTas
• Halle
• Petedavo
• Psychobabble
• Plasma
• SM247
• Sumple
• Shadow007
• SilasM
• bainer
• Truth_06
• Xtra
• Yeu Ninje

[edit] Userbox

*Participants are encouraged to add this box to their User Page using {{User WikiProject Australian_law}} or by adding WikiProject Australian Law on your user page to show your membership of WikiProject Australian Law.

[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.

{{WP Australia|place=yes}} 

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.

[edit] Useful categories

• Category:Australian law
• Category:Australian law stubs - find stubs to expand

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Australia.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

Similar WikiProjects are:

• WikiProject Australian politics
• WikiProject Law
  • WikiProject US Supreme Court Cases
  • WikiProject Canadian law
  • WikiProject International law

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• /Strategy
• /Policy