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Navigation
The menu on the left of the screen lists the different categories by which you can sort and view the judgments.
- Recent Judgments - judgments published in the last 90 days
- Judgments and Catchwords - Catchwords for judgments published in the last 30 days
- By Citation Number - judgments categorised by year, and citation number;
- Legislation Index - judgments categorised by legislation;
- By Applicant - judgments categorised by the applicants name, using the first two letters of the applicant’s name; and
- By Respondent - judgments categorised by the respondents name, using the first two letters of the respondent’s name.
The judgments appear in the viewing window in the centre.
You expand a row of data by clicking on the expand icon
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You can use the menu options across the top of the viewing window to navigate between judgments.
To expand or collapse all of the visible rows, click on the expand all or collapse all functions.
Previous and next take you to the previous or next page.
The Advanced Search function opens the advanced search screen, which is explained in detail below.
Searching
Searching can be a bit of an art, and it may take more than one try to get the results you want. You can choose between the Search or the Advanced Search.
Search
Search scans all the judgments in the database for a word, words or a phrase that appear anywhere in that judgment.
Simply type the word into the box in the right of the header and click on the Search button.
To search for multiple words, enter each of the words separated by an AND or OR, depending on if you wish to find only documents that contain all of the words (by separating the word with an AND) or any of the words (by separating the words with an OR).
To search for a literal phrase, enclose the phrase in quotes.
Advanced Search
The "Advanced Search" allows you to search for specific words, dates or texts within different parts of the judgments.
To search for specific words or phases within the judgment, simply enter the words or phases in theSearch forbox. You can also search for specific case name, catchword, party, coram, delivered date, case type or legislation in addition to that.
TheSearch optionsmakes your search more comprehensive in that you don't need to have the exact spelling for your search item.
Word Variants- This option finds words with the base word + certain suffixes. For example, a search for "swim" will also find "swims," "swimming," "swimmer," and even "swimmed." It will not find the variation "swam," however, because the base word has changed, or "swimmet," or "swimsed" because the suffixes are not acceptable with that word.
Fuzzy Search- This option finds documents that have matches similar to your search. eg searching for Califronia when the fuzzy search option is on will find California
Simple enter all the search criteria then click on the Search button.
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PA[2014] WADC 100 - Matter is pending an appeal.
A[2014] WADC 110 - Judgment has been appealed