The Library provides access to a range of specialised databases which you can use to find case law. The following will be useful for finding cases on your legal topics:
Daily Unreported Judgments Notifier from LexisNexisAU
Subscribe to this service to be notified about the latest cases in all Australian jurisdictions or the jurisdiction of your choice.
BarNet Jade Digests
Jade provides digests for major Australian court sites using RSS technology. You can keep an eye on the most recently released court decisions from your choice of selected courts in a single place. As you scan through the handy summary, you can click through to the full case, read it online, print it, or JADEmark it for later.
A case citator is a legal research tool which helps you to track the history of a case and the treatment of the case by subsequent courts. Citators allow you to determine if a case is still good law and it acts as noting up tool, allowing you find other cases (and secondary materials) which have cited the original case.
Use the following tools to find commonly used law report series and court abbreviations.
The following is a list of authorised law report series for Australian superior courts. A link has been provided where the reports are available online via SCU databases.
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Court |
Title of report series |
Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|
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Federal Court of Australia |
FCR |
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High Court of Australia |
CLR |
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Supreme Court of New South Wales |
NSWLR |
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Supreme Court of Queensland |
QdR |
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Supreme Court of South Australia |
SASR |
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Supreme Court of Tasmania |
Tasmanian Reports |
Tas R |
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Supreme Court of Victoria |
VR |
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Supreme Court of Western Australia |
Western Australian Reports |
WAR |
| Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory Law | Australian Capital Territory Reports | ACTLR |
| Supreme Court of the Northern Territory | Northern Territory Law Reports | NTLR |
