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Case law
There are a number of free case law databases that you can access:
- Australian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
- LawCite (AustLII)
- Supreme Court Victoria Library unreported judgments database
- English Reports (1220-1873).
AustLII collects and publishes unreported Victorian cases from many different courts and tribunals:
- Supreme Court of Victoria – Court of Appeal (1998 – onwards)
- Supreme Court of Victoria (1994 – onwards)
- Children's Court of Victoria (2004 – onwards)
- County Court of Victoria (1993 – onwards)
- Magistrates' Court of Victoria (2006 – onwards)
- Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (1998 – onwards)
- Victorian Mental Health Review Board (1987 – onwards).
For judgments of Commonwealth courts see Commonwealth Case law.
On-site access to online databases
We subscribe to a range of case law databases and products that you can only access in the Libray, due to licensing restrictions. This includes the following case law databases:
- Legal Online
- LexisNexis AU
- CCH IntelliConnect.
It also includes the following law report series:
- Australian criminal law reports
- Commonwealth law reports
- Federal court reports
- Federal law reports
- New South Wales law reports
- Victorian reports.
Print collection
In addition to our online collections, the Library has a large collection of print law report series:
- Administrative appeals reports
- Administrative law decisions
- Australian Argus law reports
- Australian criminal law reports
- Australian de facto and relationship cases
- Australian family law cases
- Australian family law reports
- Australian social security cases
- Australian torts reports
- The commonwealth law reports
- Family law reports
- Federal Court reports
- Federal law reports
- Motor vehicle reports
- Victorian administrative reports
- Victorian reports.
Caselaw summaries and digests
Summaries of significant decisions from particular jurisdictions are available.
- High Court of Australia bulletins (Austlii)
- Supreme Court of Victoria unreported judgments and bulletins.
For more resources, see the Public Law Library Catalogue.