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South African Law

A guide for researching South African law

Finding case notes/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:

  • The Cases Cited search box in the Journal Article Index of the Johannesburg Bar Library (open access). Indexes articles from South African journals only. Many more journals are indexed in this database than in SAFLII. No full text. 

 

  • 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 date and database. Clicking on 'By Database' will sort the citing journal articles after the listing by court.

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