This page aims to offer a guidance on where you can locate sources of Singaporean cases with various categories of resources, including:
Please be reminded that cases or judgments are not indexed in FIND@HKUL. To look for full text cases, you will have to search in relevant legal databases, or search by the full title of a law report in FIND@HKUL with "Books+" search scope.
Alternatively, you may change to Advance Search and enter the following search term for all available law reports within the HKUL Collection:
At the beginning of first semester of each academic year, the Law Library will invite specialist trainers from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters to conduct trainings for all law students to re-visit and familiarize the resources available from Lexis Advance Hong Kong and Westlaw Asia, and how to use them. Reserve a seat to master the skills in using these databases!
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Serve as Singapore’s leading platform for legal research, LawNet offers many resources to its users. Primary legal materials, such as Singapore Law Reports and Legislations, and secondary materials such as the latest legal news can be easily accessed. Check out LawNet User Guide for more details on how it works.
To access full archive of cases with summaries and headnotes, you are reminded to obtain login information via the path indicated in the FIND@HKUL record. HKUL Authentication is also required via login to your HKU Portal account.
Westlaw Asia offers the Singapore Company and Securities Law Cases and Singapore Law Reports Case Analysis for accessing Singapore Case Law.
To look up for law reports, follow the steps below:
SLR was originally published by the Singapore Government Printer in 1950-1957, law library holds the series below in its collection:
Singapore Law Reports [SLR]
Published with authority of the Singapore Academy of Law, serving as the official law-reporting agency in Singapore, cases are selected with importance for Singapore’s jurisprudence. Headnote, summaries of cases with catchwords, a summary of facts and holdings and list of cases and legislations being referred to in the judgment could be found.
Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases [SAL Ann Rev]
This title is an annual digest that encloses and evaluates selected cases of the Singapore courts in the previous year. Comments and analysis by leading practitioners and reputable academics are also contributed to the title.
The Singapore Judiciary (click to visit)
The Singapore Judiciary serves to uphold legal justice and accessibility of the law in the country. The institution consists of three major courts – The Supreme Court, State Courts and Family Justice Courts. You may obtain judgments and related documents via the official website - https://www.judiciary.gov.sg/judgmentments.
Singapore Law Watch (click to visit)
Supported by the Singapore Academy of Law, the Singapore Law Watch provides free daily legal news service for the community. Unreported decisions can also be located here. Please note that court judgments from 2000 and onwards are archived on the platform permanently.
Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII) (click to visit)
Serving to promote free access to law and legal information for the community, AsianLII offers a consolidated platform of databases, catalogues and web-searches on Singapore’s legal system and materials.
