Case law is the collection of past legal decisions written by high courts and supreme court, The law was analyzed using these cases to resolve ambiguities for deciding current cases. Case law is an important primary source in legal research. It helps us in explaining how a particular case was resolved with the explaining their reasoning.
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A case laws have following basic components which constitutes it a complete case law.
- Case Title: The title of case tells us the parties involved in that particular case and who brings the matter in front of the court. This is the title of the case such as “Arnesh Kumar v State of Bihar”, It reflects the parties involved in that particular case and who brings the matter in front of the court.
- Case Judgment: Judgments generally provides information about the court's explanation & decision by keeping in mind the rights and liabilities of parties in a legal action or proceeding.
- Case Citation: It tells you the name of the court that decided the case, the year in which the court decided the case and the appeal number.
- Bench: The very next information is the name of the judge who was involved in court opinion.
- Eq. citation: Equivalent Citation Table is a useful tool to know the parallel citations. of cases published in different journals.
There are the main more components available in particular case which constitutes it a complete case law.
Top sites for Case Laws
- Legitquest.com: One of the powerful free legal search engines having a huge database of case law (more than 50 million Indian case laws) from Supreme Court, All High Courts, All Tribunals, Bare Acts, Rules, Regulations along with Secondary material content of Treaties, Bills in Parliament, Constituent Debates, Reports of Commissions and Committees, Law Commission Reports, News, Interviews, Columns etc.The site also provide the facility of making notes, printing case & judgement instantly and receive latest judgement alert via mail and SMS.There are many other websites you can look in order to find out more information about case laws, they are:
- Indiankanoon.org
- Manupatrafast.com
- Aironline.com
- Latestlaws.com
- Legalcrystal.com
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