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Researching Case Law

Find judicial considerations of a case

Once you have found a useful case it will be important to research for other cases that have judicially considered that case. It is also useful to research what cases that case has considered.

Case Example:

Telebooth Pty Ltd v Telstra Corporation Ltd [1994] 1 VR 337

In this example the name of the case is Telebooth Pty Ltd v Telstra Corporation Ltd. The citation for the case is [1994] 1 VR 337.

The best way to search for a known case in a case citator is to use the citation. Using a citation is the quickest way to find a known case. It can be either a law report citation or a medium neutral citation. In most databases you only need to type in the citation (without quotation marks or additional punctuation).


Finding cases judicially considered in different databases

Below is a selected list of databases that can be searched by case citation. Click on the plus icons for how to search effectively in those different databases.