JUDIS provides you with the following options for your caselaw research:
☐ Case Number: Any case that is decided by the Supreme Court can be retrieved by the Case Number of Supreme Court. For example, Civil Appeal 2982/93, etc.
☐ Title: A case can be accessed by either petitioner name or respondent name. For this you need not even know the complete name of a party. The powerful assistance menus of JUDIS help in specifying a case on which you have only vague information.
☐ Period: JUDIS provides you a list of all cases for a specified period along with full details.
☐ Judge: Retrieval with respect to Judge+combination of other keys such as Judge+Title, Judge+Act, Judge+Period, Judge+Keyword, is possible. Judge+Title : Gives you details of a case having a particular Title and decided by a particular Judge Judge+Act : Gives you all cases decided by a judge on the specific Act Judge+Period : Provides you cases decided by a judge during a particular period Judge+Keyword : Displays all cases delivered by a judge on a particular keyword
☐ Act: By mentioning any act either in full or part, all related cases can be retrieved. It also helps you in getting the latest judgement on a particular law point. This is the most useful and frequently used query by all categories of users.
☐ Headnote/Judgement: Complete headnote/judgements can be retrieved in several ways. The most powerful retrieval method is by its LEXICON. A combination of typical words which are part of headnote/judgement can be used to retrieve precedents of a case. This is the most commonly used facility.