Advanced Case Law
Additional Materials
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00:00 Introduction
- 01:49 Overview
- 04:30 What is case law?
- 06:30 What case law is, and what it's not
- 10:10 Legal Principles in case law
- 12:00 Medium Neutral Citations (MNCs)
- 13:40 Retro-fitted MNCs
- 18:00 Demonstration searching for case law with JADE and explanation of paragraph numbering in High Court decision
- 20:00 Citing page numbers in a law report
- 21:10 Pre-Medium Neutral Citation 'Parallel Citations' - letters as pinpoint markers
- 22:10 Faux MNCs
- 23:20 Demonstration with AustLII LawCite
- 26:10 Coverage of Courts in JADE
- 28:00 ProTip for Searching Full Text
- 29:00 JADE CaseTrace, parallel citations
- 30:49 Using Clips, Citations and Footnotes in JADE to find leads in your research
- 36:40 Tracking appeals in JADE and litigation history summary table
- 42:00 JADE Citation builder tool for easy copying of citations
- 43:45 Issues with full-text searches using IceTV
- 44:40 Drilling down into results with JADE
- 46:30 Focus matches with 'Statute of Anne'
- 47:45 Complex searching with phrases in JADE search box
- 51:00 Demonstration of the Victorian Reports
- 56:30 Finding the best decisions to read
- 58:00 JADE Alerts, adding a new alert
- 01:03:05 Creating a JADE Alert for a single case
- 01:05:20 Reasons to use authorised reports
- 01:07:20 Questions
- 01:10:30 Comment on the way the High Court of Australia cites authoritative reports
- 01:15:10 Question: How does JADE handle documents uploaded by users for citation analysis?
- 01:18:00 Comity and the Common Law
- 01:22:31 Example of statement of legal principle from the High Court and looking at the judgments of intermediate appellate courts
- 01:23:30 Viewing cited paragraphs and reading through only the cited sections of a case to get a feel for it
- 01:27:00 Closing comments and next session

