Raistrick, D. Index to legal citations and abbreviations. Australian Law Journal Reports Check your library catalogue by this title to find the Call Number. Libraries treat law reports as periodicals because they are published regularly. If you need to find a case on an area of law such as Defamation, Consumer Protection , Trade Practices or Family Law, here are some methods you can use. Find a textbook on the area of law and look at the cases it mentions.
Texts refer to the most important cases.
To find textbooks on an area of law in a library catalogue, choose a Keyword or Word search and use words for the topic and the country or state. These regular publications list legislation and cases by very detailed subject headings, but will often give you too many cases to choose from, so using a recent textbook is best. Search electronic sources by the area of law or the name or section of an Act to which the case relates. We will cover this next. These are usually the reports of recent cases but decisions can be published on AustLII before they are available in printed law reports.