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Finding legal resources online

Finding legal resources online

The table below is a quick reference guide for finding different types of Australian legal resources online. Use the International Law guide to find International legal resources.

Type of information	Where to access
Case Law - Published Law Reports	Lexis Advance Research Westlaw (Australia) Cases CCH iKnowConnect
Case Law - Unreported Judgments	AustLII New South Wales Case Court websites (use a search engine to find these) Westlaw (Australia) Cases Lexis Advance Research
Case Law - Digests/Citators	CaseBase (via Lexis Advance Research) Westlaw (Australia) Cases LawCite
Legislation - full-text	LawOne (TimeBase) - all jurisdictions Federal Register of Legislation - Commonwealth NSW Legislation - NSW AustLII Lexis Advance Research- for some subject areas CCH iKnowConnect - for some subject areas
Legislation - Annotators	Statutes Annotations - Commonwealth Statutes Annotations - NSW Statutes Annotations - Vic Australian Current Law - Legislation
Treaties	AustLII - Australian Treaties Library
Journal Articles	Research Databases - Law AustLII - Law Journals library
Commentaries	Lexis Advance Research CCH iKnowConnect
Encyclopaedias	Halsbury's Laws of Australia (via Lexis Advance Research) Laws of Australia (via Westlaw Australia)
Dictionaries	Australian Legal Words and Phrases Australian Law Dictionary
Forms & Precedents	Australian Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents Court Forms, Precedents & Pleadings NSW (via LexisNexis AU)

Subjects: Business / Accountancy

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