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Case Law: Finding Cases

This Guides provides information relating to Law Reports, Citations and Citators, how to look for specific Cases, using different methods. It also includes links to Databases, to enable you locate Australian Cases and Cases from other Jurisdictions.

Looking for Reported Case Law

In the previous tabs, you were provided with an in depth overview of the following content:

  • what Case law is
  • the Databases you can use to find Cases
  • the lifecycle of Case and where it ends up first
  • what Law Reports are
  • the different kinds of Law Reports
  • how a Case can be Reported and the 1, or many places a Case can be Reported
  • the important distinction between Unreported and Reported Cases
  • the important distinction between Reported Authorised and Reported Unauthorised cases and
  • the different elements of Reported and Unreported case citations

Let's turn our attentions to finding Case law. 

There are many different ways to look for Cases.

This part of the Guide will allow you to explore the different methods you can use to look for Case Law. You can either navigate your way through the links below, or use the drop down menu provided in the tab above. 

 

Find Australian cases

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