Case Law Research involves searching for cases related to specific issues at hand. The basic intention behind this is to collect as many cases (related to that particular issue) as possible. It helps one in determining the trend of the Court in deciding certain issues. Research would be done with regard to the opinion of courts on the case, the reasoning behind the opinion, how the other courts have distinguished this case from others etc. It would help one in understanding the manner and the factors which are taken into consideration by the Courts while taking a decision. Case law research ensures that a planned legal argument is not weakened by any new law.
After an initial research a relevant and leading case on the particular issue at hand is generally found. After this the next step in this regard is to chart out a list of cases which have judicially considered the leading case by means of mentioning, following, discussing it.
Case laws can be searched by the name of the parties involved, its citation or by the legal issue dealt in the case law. The most effective manner to track a case history is by using the case citations. In earlier days one had to completely depend of the Court Journals and the Court Reporters to find cases. But this is not the situation anymore, the growth of information technology and internet are the main reasons behind the change in this situation. Nowadays there are many legal databases available all over the internet which can be accessed from any part of the world. These databases contain legal information of different jurisdictions, thus all your legal answers can be found at one place. LexisNexis, Westlaw, Fastcase are just a few examples of such legal databases. These make case law research much more simplified and easy.
Case Law Research involves searching for cases related to specific issues at hand. The basic intention behind this is to collect as many..
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