Key databases
- Lexis+ Australia
Australian legal database including law reports, legislation, law journals, commentary and texts. Key titles include Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary, CaseBase, and the Australian Law Reports (ALRs).
- Westlaw AU
Access to legislation, case law, commentary, journals, news and precedents that are easy to find and apply.
- AustLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute
Free access to Australasian public legal materials. Includes primary legal materials (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals) and secondary legal materials created by public bodies for purposes of public access (for example, law reform and royal commission reports). Also includes a substantial collection of law journals.
- LawCite (AustLII)LawCite is a case citator which is freely available on AustLII. It will help you to locate and find a copy of a decision, see how a decision has been subsequently dealt with and find other materials such as journal articles about a decision. It will also help you to see how journal articles have been cited by other journal articles and cases.
- BarNet JadeBarNet Jade (Judgments and Decisions Enhanced) contains the full text of over 300,000 Australian decisions and legislation.
Legal research
Authorised law reports
Westlaw AU contains the current Authorised Report Series for all Commonwealth, Federal, and Supreme Courts of Australian states.
- NSWLR: New South Wales Law ReportsThe authorised law reports of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Authorised Report Series video
- What they are, how to find them and why you need to use them.
Abbreviations
Find the meaning of law journal and law report abbreviations, for example:
- ALJ - Australian Law Journal
- QB - Law Reports, Queen's Bench
AGLC4
- Australian Guide to Legal Citation (PDF, 3MB)The fourth edition of the AGLC is the product of collaboration between the Melbourne University Law Review and the Melbourne Journal of International Law. The AGLC provides Australia with a uniform system of legal citation.
