This clip will show you how use the citator to find legal principle, narrow down your results to a specific paragraph of a judgment, and how the citator can be used while reading a document to find links to other cases.

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Welcome to Jade, Australia’s best legal research tool. In this video I’ll be showing you how to use the The Citator.

The Citator is for when you want to search by legal principle. So instead of searching for a particular document, you search for citations to a particular document.

This search goes down to the paragraph level for case law and the subsection level of legislation.

Simply type in the name or citation of the document you’re using to see how it has been interpreted in referencing judgments.

As you can see, this case has been referenced extensively, and it wouldn’t be very efficient to filter through every single citation in the hopes of finding something relevant. Thankfully, you can refine your search with Jade to search for references to exact paragraphs of a given Judgment.

So, if you enter in your citation and the paragraphs you’re after, you’ll have narrower results. Here we have 2 citations in 2 Jade documents.

If you click the underlined “Citation 1”, you’ll be taken to the exact part of the document where the original judgment is referenced.

So Jade has detected the citation to be in the footnotes, which Jade displays in-line with text. If we read this passage and find it useful, we can make a quick Jademark and come back to it later on as this annotation will appear in my library. For a full explanation, check out our other video on Jadeamarks.

For now, let’s look at the how the Citator is used within a document. Most of these features are exclusive to Jade Professional, but can be used in a limited capacity with Jade Free

Here you can see the Case trace breakdown of the document we’re on, in this case LEPRA. We also have in the top right a few ways of breaking down the document. For example, we can choose to view only the cited sections. Given this is a big Act, we might try something else; organising the document by its most cited sections. Here s 99 is the most cited.

We can then click the green clip on the right, to bring up a mini-citator search of the section we’re on. This green clip appears next to all cited passages in Jade.

If we look closer, we can see there’s a lot of citations, so we can quickly adjust our search, to go by a specific subsection.

And once again finding a helpful passage is as simple as that.

Finally, there’s the Citation report at the bottom of every document in Jade. Think of this as a more detailed version of the Case trace box from before.

It lists the litigation history of this case, Cases citing, cases cited by and legislation cited by.

Additionally, all documents as well as paragraphs and subsections can be quickly viewed from the report.

And that is how you research using the Jade citator.