Finding Judicial Consideration of Legislation
There are a number of ways to find judicial consideration of legislation. You can use a legislation database such as TimeBase or citators such as CaseBase (Lexis Advance Pacific) and FirstPoint (Weslaw AU), and free citators such as JADE and LawCite (AustLII).
This module demonstrates how to use each of these platforms. You can access these platforms from the sections in this module or the Law Library website Research Databases by Type page. It is strongly recommended that you use more than one database when you are doing this type of research task, as the databases will provide different results.
Use each database listed in this section to search for cases considering section 48 of the Wrongs Act 1958 (Vic). A search of each of the databases for cases considering this section of the Wrongs Act reveals different results and one has significantly fewer. Once you've searched each database for cases considering section 48 of the Wrongs Act 1958 (Vic), try our quiz to test your knowledge.