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AustLII offers free web access to Australian and New Zealand legal materials, including cases, legislation, treaties, journals and law reform reports. Users can search databases together, separately, by jurisdiction or individually, using Boolean, proximity, truncation and phrase syntax. LawCite follows citations across AustLII and collaborating institutes, and document pages include print, download and cited-by links. Its responsive website supports current device types, with intended users including legal practitioners, researchers, librarians, government officers and policy advisors.

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   Free British and Irish legal materials — BAILII covers British, Irish and European legal materials with keyword, citation, date, Boolean and multidatabase searching.

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   CanLII

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An alternative may suit you when your work centers on another jurisdiction, docket activity, richer commentary, specialized analysis or a different platform. AustLII has no docket search, uses the web only, and its guide says annual or alphabetical contents may be unavailable for some databases. Compare each service’s jurisdiction, document coverage, search controls, citation links, alerts, analysis, account features, integrations and delivery options. The key trade-off is whether you need AustLII’s free Australasian scope or a service built around another legal system or workflow.

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