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Westlaw Asia Guide - Australian case citator - FirstPoint table of abbreviations

This guide provides a table of the abbreviations used in FirstPoint - the Australian case law research and analytical service. The table provides the case abbreviation, full publication name, court, and medium neutral citation.

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Westlaw Asia Guide - Australian case citator - FirstPoint Scope

This guide introduces FirstPoint, including what it is, the coverage, and categories it covers.

What is FirstPoint?

FirstPoint is a case law research tool that integrates content from a number of Thomson Reuters leading case law research products, such as the Australian Digest and Australian Case Citator. You can use FirstPoint to:

  • Research a particular area of law using FirstPoint’s unique classification scheme and identify cases relevant to that area;
  • Research the litigation history of a particular case and identify other cases which have considered your case;
  • Read case summaries of key reported and unreported decisions – FirstPoint contains all the same case summary information found in the Australian Digest and the Australian Legal Monthly Digest (ALMD), all conveniently located in the one easy-to-search database.
  • Conduct a custom search across a number of specialised search fields to identify particular information – for example, cases which consider a particular piece of legislation or judgments by a particular judge.

Coverage

FirstPoint is built from the citator information (litigation history and cases considered) contained in the Australian Case Citator, and case summaries from the Australian Digest and the ALMD.

The coverage of these products (and hence of FirstPoint) is as follows:

Australian Case Citator – Citator information for Australian reported cases starting from 1825.

Coverage of Australian unreported cases starts from September 1999.

  • Refer to Appendix A for details of the report series included in the Australian Case Citator.
  • Refer to Appendix B for more detail on which unreported cases receive citator information on FirstPoint.

Australian Digest and ALMD – Classifications and case summaries for significant Australian reported cases starting from 1825. Classifications for unreported Australian judgments from September 1999 onwards, with summaries for key unreported judgments from September 1999 also.

  • Refer to Appendix A for a list of report series included in the Australian Digest and the ALMD.
  • Refer to Appendix B for more detail on unreported case coverage.

FirstPoint is updated each working day with citator information derived from the latest case law and new summaries from key cases.

FirstPoint contains links to full text law reports and unreported judgments, as well as full text law reports in PDF format. Please note that separate subscriptions are required to access this content.

FirstPoint allows the researcher to search under the following categories:

Party Names This field searches the title and full list of party names in the case.
Citation Use this field to search for a case by year, volume, series and page number, e.g., 175 CLR 1.
Subject This field searches for content by legal classification. For example, you can search for cases about penalties for environmental offences by typing “penalties” into the search box and specifying that the search be confined to the “Environment and planning” classification.

Legislation Title

Legislation Provision Number

 Use these fields to find cases that judicially consider a section of an Act.

Cases Cited (Party)

Cases Cited (Citation)

 These fields allow you to narrow your search down to cases which have cited or referred to other cases by the party names or citation.
Court Use this field to search by court, e.g. Supreme Court of Victoria.
Judge Use this field to limit a search to cases heard by a particular judge/s surname, e.g., Kirby.
Year This field narrows the search down to cases heard in a particular year or range of years.

 

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Westlaw Asia (new) Guide - Unlocking the value of FirstPoint

This guide demonstrates the advantages of FirstPoint features that are included in Australian case law on Westlaw Asia (new).

Key FirstPoint feature FirstPoint advantage
1 Case Status Flags: clear status flags inform you immediately if your case is good law (that it hasn’t been doubted or overturned). Status flags also appear in the Litigation History and Cases Cited and Citing blocks. Within 2 business days of receipt, more than 90% of new cases receive point-of-law classifications, litigation history and, for superior courts decisions, case relationships. These relationships drive the flag status.
2 Classification to the FirstPoint Key, which is powered by the Australian Digest. You can use these classifications to browse within Westlaw Asia and find cases – including obscure cases – on the same point of law. The online Classification Key is unique to FirstPoint. It’s simple and easy to browse, covering more than 19,000 points of law. Like the law, the Key grows and evolves every year.
3 Summaries: targeted on-point digest notes written by Australian legal editors with local legal qualifications and experience.

14 Australian legal editors work on FirstPoint.

The editors have local legal qualifications, local experience and Australia-wide expertise. Their point-of-law summaries are a fast brief when users want more detail than just court catchwords.

 

Key FirstPoint feature FirstPoint advantage
4 Related Cases: click through to cases that are Cited by or Cite your case, including the treatment of that case within the judgment and the current case status flag. FirstPoint is integrated with unreported judgments and the largest online library of authorised and specialist report series in Australia, including the Commonwealth Law Reports.
5 FirstPoint verified is a list of significant cases or legislation provisions that are referred to within the case. The case citation links to the full-text unreported judgment (via the media neutral citation) or law report (via report citation), where available. To save users research time, the FirstPoint Legal Team has analysed the case and extracted a list of significant case and legislation references. The significant case references are also verified for correctness.
6 Other References: we also provide lists of other cases and legislation that are considered in the case to enable further research. The Other References feature was developed in response to customer feedback. This recent feature complements FirstPoint verified, which displays significant references only.

 

Note: The above screenshots of the FirstPoint record for Attorney-General (SA) v Corporation of the City of Adelaide have been cropped in order to fit the FirstPoint features in this document. As a result, the images may show only part of the available FirstPoint content for some of the highlighted FirstPoint features.

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