Case law
Case law
There are a number of free case law databases that you can access, including:
- Australian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
- LawCite (AustLII)
- Law Library of Victoria unreported judgments
- 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 Tribunal (1987 – onwards).
For judgments of Commonwealth courts see AustLII’s Commonwealth Resources.
On-site access to online databases
Our law library subscribes to a range of case law databases and products that can only be accessed on-site, due to licensing restrictions. These include the following case law databases:
- Legal Online
- LexisNexis AU
- CCH IntelliConnect.
They also include 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 print collection of 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.
Case law summaries and digests
Summaries of significant decisions from particular jurisdictions are available from:
For more resources, search the Public Law Library Catalogue.