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Legal research: Abbreviations

The guide provides an overview of the legal Research Process, how to locate various law sources for your Core Law units, access free law resources, and decipher abbreviations.

Abbreviations - Wht 4?

Legal Abbreviations are a quick and convenient way of identifying legal publications and courts. They are commonly used for Law Reports, Journal Titles and Medium Neutral Citations.

Top tip: Here are the parallel citations in relation to a case from Lexis+.

To help you decipher the abbreviation of the Law Report or the Court, all you need to do is hover over the abbreviation!

Here are some tools that you can use to decipher abbreviations:

Online

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations New Window

Westlaw AU Abbreviations Guides new window

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