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South African Law


Finding Casenotes / Commentary on Cases 

Leading cases are often discussed in books on your topic.

Case notes / comments and scholarly commentary are often contained in journal and law review articles. See the Journals page in this Guide.

Also use:

  • SAFLII. From your case, click on Noteup - this will link to cases that have considered your case. It will also list and link to full text journal articles considering your case in the few South African journals that are included in full text in SAFLII.The default order is by relevance, but you can also sort by eg: date and database. Clicking on By Database will sort the citing journal articles after the listing by court.