Strategies for Research Success

Michael Green SC

Michael Green SC

Michael Green SC takes a deep dive into legal research and provides insights that can develop excellent praxis for early career lawyers, as well as tips and time saving strategies for experienced practitioners.

Parts

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