If you are interested in the law as it affects certain groups of people, then look under the name of the group, e.g. women, artists, Aborigines, Vietnamese, followed by the subdivision legal status, laws, etc. The way in which our courts operate can be found in books under subject headings such as courts Australia, criminal procedure or justice, administration of. Fences and the law. The majority of cases appearing before the courts are never reported in a formal sense, and are therefore not searchable. Those cases that set some sort of legal precedent or are from the higher level courts may be reported as Law Reports.
Newspaper articles are a useful source of information on violent or notorious crime.
See our guide Newspapers - Indexes and Databases . Printouts from a select number of prominent SA murder cases are kept in folders at the Reference Desk. Indexes and gives text of South Australian State Reports from 1971 to 1995. See above for other years. Covers all aspects of law in Australia including banking, companies and securities, constitutional law, criminal law, environmental law and human rights.