Welcome to JADE
Made by Barristers, for Barristers
Whether you're a Barrister, Reader or a Clerk, JADE is the best place to start your legal research.
Comprehensive, Accurate and Up-to-date
JADE is an open access legal research platform designed by Australian Barristers to improve the quality and efficiency of legal research. JADE's comprehensive collections of case law and legislation are updated in real time as judgments are handed down by the Courts, making it the best place to start your legal research.
Faster Search Capabilities
JADE is faster, easier and more effective. Many search platforms claim to have been built by lawyers, but when you search with JADE the difference is obvious.
Refine your search results to quickly find relevant cases, using filters such as keyword, Court, dates, Judge, parties and more. Easily access inline citations and citation reports with just one or two clicks, all in the same screen.
Smarter Legal Research Tools
There's so much more to legal research than search, and there's so much more to JADE.
From customising and saving your research, or creating real-time alerts by signing up to JADE, or upgrade to JADE Professional to unlock purpose-built tools such as inline citations to legislation, automated citation checking and advanced keyword searching.
From appearing in Court to giving advice, be prepared for anything with JADE.
Personalise your Research
Create customisable real-time JADE Alerts to keep up-to-date in your practise area.
Curate your own library of legal content by using JADEmarks to annotate, highlight, save and share your legal research, and access inline citations to case law using JADE Clips by signing up to JADE.
Free Legal Research Tools
JADE Alerts
Keep up-to-date with customisable real-time JADE Alerts for all the relevant judgments and topics in your practise area.
JADEmarks
Curate your own library of annotated and highlighted legal content to keep your research organised and readily accessible.
JADE Clips
Easily identify the most recent citations with up-to-date inline citations to case law, at a paragraph level.
JADE Professional
$95 a month, or $995 a year
Upgrade to JADE Professional
Purpose-built by Barristers, JADE Professional's suite of legal research tools ensures you're better prepared for whatever comes your way.
JADE Clips for Legislation
Easily identify the most recent cases citing a provision of legislation in real-time. Create section or subsection level JADE Alerts.
Document Uploads
Automatically check citations, create links to cases and legislation with a full list of authorities. Annotate your document using JADEmarks, and export and share with embedded links.
Legislation Visualisations
Quickly determine how, and to what extent a provision of legislation has changed with a visual history of legislation. View point-in-time provisions and compare versions side-by-side with amendments highlighted.
Focus Matches
Advanced keyword searching to quickly determine whether a judgment is relevant before reading the whole document. Add your keywords to distill the case into it's most relevant sections.
Case Law Visualisations
Easily find, collate and map the relationship between cases, and determine whether a case is still good law using JADE's Similarity Tracker, Precedent Tracker and Parallel Citations tools.
JADE Professional
$95 a month, or $995 a year
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