LAWS1013 Study Guide - Final Guide: Law Report, Incorporated Council Of Law Reporting, Nsw Law Reports
18 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Legal Research I
Resource
Location
Full journal article
Databases>> Law>> Law databases>> Search journal name
Full decision
Databases>> Legal abbreviations and law reports, or Cardiff Index>>
[whichever law report] >> citation hyperlink
Full UK decision
Databases >> Legal abbreviations and law reports >> ICLR
Full updated act
Databases>> Law>> Law databases>> NSW Parliament/Federal Register
of Legislation etc
Case citators
Databases>> Law>> Law databases>> CaseBase/FirstPoint
Cases about
certain things
CaseBase>> Advanced Search (use the search connectors provided), OR
FirstPoint
Articles (given
journal name)
Catalogue>>Search journal name>>Search article name within journal
Wk1: Primary and Secondary Sources of Law
● Primary sources of law: the law ie anything from lawmakers (give us direct info)
○ Judges’ decisions
■ Law report: a collection/volume of judgements, collected by the
publisher - important for the doctrine of precedent (primary source)
● Publishers decide which reports are of interest for precedent
● Reported versions of cases have headnotes
○ Regulations
○ The Constitution
○ Legislation
○ International instruments
● Secondary sources of law: anything about the law (give us indirect info)
○ Academic articles, incl judges writing extrajudicially
Wk2: Case Citations
● Medium neutral version: just contain basic information about the case eg which court,
has square brackets (publication year essential to finding the decision)
● Reported version: published by a certain publisher eg CCH
○ Authorised law reports: have been authorised by court as the preferred law
report series for that court, take precedence over others, use when available!
■ CLR (Commonwealth Law Report for High Court of Australia)
■ FCR (Federal Court Report for Federal Court of Australia)
■ NSWLR (NSW Law Report for Supreme Court of NSW)
■ AC (for House of Lords/Supreme Court in UK)
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Document Summary
Full journal article databases>> law>> law databases>> search journal name. Databases>> legal abbreviations and law reports, or cardiff index>> Databases >> legal abbreviations and law reports >> iclr. Databases>> law>> law databases>> nsw parliament/federal register of legislation etc. Casebase>> advanced search (use the search connectors provided), or. Primary sources of law: the law ie anything from lawmakers (give us direct info) Law report: a collection/volume of judgements, collected by the publisher - important for the doctrine of precedent (primary source) Publishers decide which reports are of interest for precedent. Secondary sources of law: anything about the law (give us indirect info) Medium neutral version: just contain basic information about the case eg which court, has square brackets (publication year essential to finding the decision) Reported version: published by a certain publisher eg cch. Authorised law reports: have been authorised by court as the preferred law report series for that court, take precedence over others, use when available!
