TASC Legal Studies: Dispute resolution

Australian Government: Attorney-General's Department 

• Alternative dispute resolution (Download the PDF 'Your guide to dispute resolution') 
• Access to Justice

Federal Court of Australia

• Mediation
• Australian national mediator standards
• Arbitration & International Arbitration

Tasmanian Law Handbook

• The Jury System

Australian Government: Australian Law Reform Commission

• A targeted enquiry into the operation of the jury system 

Human Rights Law Centre 

This Melbourne based organisation campaigns for human rights. Copies of their reports, opinion articles, summaries and submissions are available under the 'Resources' tab. See under the 'Access to Justice' section to access articles about dispute resolution including 'Access to Justice: Submission to Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee on Civil Dispute Resolution Bill 2010' and find more information by searching their site i.e. Recognising the failure of our adversarial system to deliver access to justice (2011). 

​Here are a few examples of academic journal articles that can be found by searching a database:

• Alternative dispute resolution: A new era in dispute management? (1994)
• ADR: Is it viable in criminal matters? (1996) 
• Resolving Disputes: The Investigarto. (1999)
• Dispute resolution choices: A comparison of family dispute resolution, family law conferencing services and collaborative law. (2010)
• Civil litigation and alternative dispute resolution. (2011)
• Lawyers' emerging experiences of interdisciplinary collaborative separation and divorce. (2008)
• Social work and family dispute resolution. (2007)
• Access to justice in the super tribunals. (2010) 

You can find more articles in three steps:

1. Go to the library home page > LibGuides > A-Z Database list and click on the 'ANZ Reference Centre' link.  
2. Search for terms like 'dispute resolution' AND 'Australian law'. Use advanced search to add extra search terms. 
3. Control what sort of article you find by filtering your results. You might like to filter your results so you only find full-text articles from domestic academic journals published in the last five years? 

http://www.ag.gov.au/LegalSystem/Pages/Accesstojustice.aspx 
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Report to the Commonwealth Attorney-General : a framework for ADR standards / National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council (2001)

If you hold a LINC library card you can borrow these books or view them in the reference section.