Case law research
Studying law involves researching decisions from courts of law. Case law research includes the ability to:
- Identify and locate information about a case such as the:
- parallel citations and authoritative versions
- digest/summary
- judge/s involved, judgment date and court
- litigation history
- use case party names or citations to locate full judgments
- understand the parts of a case law report
- browse and keyword search for cases by:
- subject area, legal principle or point of law
- legislation and words/phrases judicially considered
- analyse the precedential value by considering court hierarchy and constitution, and interpreting subsequent judicial consideration.
This guide covers Australian law reporting and case citations, locating Australian cases by name or citation, case law research tools, subject-searching for Australian case law on a point of law or legal issue, tracing judicial consideration of legislative provisions and finding United Kingdom case law.
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