library quiz

Question 1

Unreported judgment what and features

Answer 1

everything starts here
no page numbers no issues
* Published on the internet or never published
Many case only interesting to people evolved

uses medium neurtal citaion

Question 2

medium neutral citation
eg what does each part mean
Tabet v Gett [2010] HCA 12

Answer 2

parties = Tabet v Gett
[year of decision] = [2010]
court abbreviation = HCA (High Court of Australia)
sequential judgment number for that court for that year = 12 (12th decision of the court that year)

Square brackets mean year is important

Question 3

Reported judgment

Answer 3

Legal publisher/s decide to publish judgment in a law report series
if it is interesting to public/ significant point of law
In ethier…
subject based report series (e.g. Intellectual Property Reports, Criminal Reports)
general report series (e.g. Australian Law Reports, Federal Law Reports)

Question 4

Authorised law report series

Answer 4

Cases published in a law report and which have the official approval of the judiciary
sent to judges to sign off on before publishing
small number of cases
Eg in high court HAS ONE authorized buddy report system CLR

Question 5

When given an assignment topic, analyse it for …

Answer 5

for Direction, Content, and Limiting terms.
* Identify the Direction terms - what do the instructions tell you to do?
* Identify the Content terms - this will help you to establish the topic of the assignment.
Identify terms which Limit the scope

Question 6

primary sources of law

Answer 6

legislation
cases

Question 7

secondary sources of law

Answer 7

legal dictionary’s and handbooks
textbooks
legal commentaries
journal articles
government documents
academic journal articles

Question 8

Key law specific databases

Answer 8

LEXIS ADVANCE
WESTLAW AUSTRALIA
CCH INTELLICONNECT