Practical Guidance is a search tool for essential online legal research. Organised by practice areas (Business, Employment, Family and Property law), the modules provide access to a collection of overviews, guidance notes, precedents, forms, cases, commentary and legislation across relevant topics.
To access Lexis Advance Practical Guidance:
- On the Library homepage, go to Subject Guides, then select Law.
- On the Key Databases tab, select Lexis Advance
BROWSE
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Click on the the dropdown arrow next to Lexis Advance Pacific Research and choose the Practical Guidance tab.
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From the Practice Areas tab, choose the relevant practice area from the four options in the list - Business, Corporations, Employment, Family or Social Justice.
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Fom this page you can access topics and subtopics e.g.Topic: Children - Subtopic: Parentage
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Subtopic content
- Overview tab - provides a quick overview on the subtopic
- Guidance tab - guidance notes on the subtopic, including key cases and legislation
- Commentary tab - contains Commentary that discusses the subtopic. Content hyperlinked to LexisNexis AU documents
- Cases tab - key cases relevant to the subtopic. Content hyperlinked to LexisNexis law reports and unreported judgements.
- Legislation tab - full text access to consolidated legislation relevant to the subtopic.
- Forms tab - access to key forms relevant to the sub-topic.
- Precendents tab - key precedents relevant to the sub-topic.
- Other Resources tab - links to external websites and other relevant material.
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To change resources, click on the tab for practice areas and choose an alternative resource.
SEARCH
- Choose Practical Guidance from the top bar
- Select the relevant practice area from the four options at the top of the screen - Business, Corporations, Employment, Family, Social Justice.
- You can use the search box on top bar to search All content, or narrow your search to a specific content type (e.g. Guidance, forms & precedents, cases, legislation, commentary, etc.).
- Enter search terms in to the search box and click on Search.
- Results will be listed under the All tab. Filter the results by selecting any one of the content type tabs.
- Once you have found content relevant to your search, you can print, email, download or alternatively, copy the URL.
