Find Australian cases using Jade

Find Australian cases using Jade, Jade is a case database published by the NSW Bar Association. It’s free and it does some really amazing things. You’ll find it here – https://jade.barnet.com.au.

Up until about 1957, the Bar Association have scanned the Commonwealth Law Reports for the High Court cases. So if you need to cite earlier decisions, you have the official page numbers. If you click the Jade Browser, you’ll see that there’s quite a lot of jurisdictions available.

Another nice feature is the citator (ie what’s happened subsequently). One of the problems with our common law system is that we might know that 27 cases have considered our case, but it’s about knowing exactly which part of the case they’ve considered.

Watch the video and keep the tips handy by downloading – Tip Sheet 3 – Finding cases using Jade.