Finding Cases Considering Legislation - Lexis Advance

This tutorial will use the Lexis Advance Research database to show you how to find cases considering legislation.

Judicial consideration of legislation is where the legislation has been applied, discussed or interpreted in court and recorded in case law.

You may also know these cases as "legislation judicially considered."

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Advanced Search

Let's find all cases that have considered section 7 of the Marine Pollution Act 1987 (NSW).

• Click on Advanced Search.
• Click on Cases.

Enter your search

You are now on the Advanced Search page.

1. Scroll down to the "Legislation Title" section.

2. Type Marine Pollution Act 1987 (NSW) into the "Legislation Title" box.

3. Type 7 into the "Provision Number" box.

 

Check the image below if you're unsure.

4. Click search.

Results

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Your search results contain cases that have referred to section 7 of the Marine Pollution Act 1987 (NSW).

Note: sometimes the search may return consideration of slightly different sections of the legislation. E.g. it may find section 18(7) instead of section 7. Make sure you double check your results for false hits!

View legislation considered by this case

Click on Filipowski v Frey.

Scroll down or click "Legislation considered by this case" to move quickly to this section.

What other section of the Marine Pollution Act 1987 (NSW) was considered by this case?

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Other resources

Congratulations! You have successfully completed this tutorial.

Now try searching using your own assessment topic or case to find which legislation was considered in the case.

Note: Some cases are unpublished. Information on how to find unreported cases is available on the Cases page of the Law Guide.

Links to other resources:

• Finding cases by name or citation - Lexis Advance Research.
• Finding cases by topic - Lexis Advance Research.
• Finding legislation - Lawlex Premium.
• AGIS Plus Text - Effective searching

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