Finding Law Reports
Finding the law report in the Library
Determine the full title of the Law Report
When a judgment is cited the title of the law report is given in
a standard abbreviated form. In order to find the text of the judgment
it is therefore necessary to determine the full title of the law
report series from the cited abbreviation. For example:
| Abbreviation |
Law Report |
| A Crim R |
Australian Criminal Reports |
| ALR |
Australian Law Reports |
| All ER |
All England Law Reports |
| CLR |
Commonwealth Law Reports |
| FCR |
Federal Court Reports |
| FLR |
Federal Law Reports |
| KB |
Law Reports, King's Bench Division |
| NSWLR |
New South Wales Law Reports |
| QB |
Law Reports, Queen's Bench Division |
Use an abbreviation index to determine the full title of the law
report series indicated in the case citation.
Examples of abbreviation indexes available in the Library include:
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An abbreviations list, Legal Abbreviations and Law Report
Citations is available at http://www.library.mq.edu.au/find/legalabbrev.html
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The Australian Guide to Legal Citation (2nd
ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, Melbourne,
2002).
Print: ReadyRef Level 3 KU48.A84 2002
An online version is also available via the Library catalogue.
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Donald Raistrick, Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations
(2nd ed, Bowker-Saur, London, c1993) Available at
the Reference Desk on Level 3 of the Library, and Law Ref Level
4 K89.R35/1993
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An electronic abbreviations index is also available on CaseBase.
See the section headed Incomplete Case Citations
for more information on CaseBase.
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