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latrobe.edu.au CRICOS Provider 00115M
Contract Law A: Assignment 2 Tips and Hints.
Kate FreedmanLibrary, Senior Learning Advisor (Law)May 2015
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AGIS Plus Text or Informit Law Collection
** Phrase marks “…” are used around 2 or more words to make sure the database searches for the words together.
Truncation * searches for term and terms together.
See the next slide for alternate terms and search suggestions.
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AGIS Plus Text or Informit Law Collection
Other Terms:
Try adding the following terms to narrow (or leave them out to expand) your search results
• Contract*
• Or a specific type of contract – employment contract; building contract
• Australia
• Use the ‘All fields’ drop down menu to change to Legal Cases (Case) and search for the Barker v Commonwealth Bank AustralianCase.
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If there is no full text article…
If the full text is still not available via this link, go back to the homepage, and check under the “journal” tab by entering the name of the journal (ie. New Zealand Law Journal). This will tell you if there is another online source, or print is available. It is worth following through to check.
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CaseBase
If you have particular cases to look up, CaseBase is a good place to start.
Here are some examples:
Burger King Corporation v Hungry Jacks [2001] NSWCA 187
Specialist Diagnostic Services Pty Ltd v Healthscope Pty Ltd [2012] VSCA 175
Arhanghelschi v Ussher [2013] VSC 253
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Hint: This case has been reported in the New South Wales Law Reports (2001) 69 NSWLR 558. You should use the reported version in preference to the AustLII version [2001] NSWCA 187.Note that there are case notes about this case listed in CaseBase (Publications referring to this case).
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