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• The Victorian Reports: authorised law reports since 1875, seamlessly integrated with JADE

  By Editor-in-Chief on 15 February 2026 • ( 0 )

  If you practise in Victoria — or deal with Victorian case law in any capacity — there’s a resource you should know about: the Victorian Reports. Published since 1875, the Victorian Reports are the authorised law reports of Victoria, carefully… Read More ›

• Link your legal blog to JADE: a practical guide for bloggers

  By Editor-in-Chief on 15 February 2026 • ( 0 )

  This post updates our original 2011 guide to linking your blog to JADE. The API endpoints still work — we’ve just made everything simpler and more powerful since then. If you write about Australian law — whether you’re a practitioner… Read More ›

• What you get with JADE Professional (and why we made the trial $1)

  By Editor-in-Chief on 15 February 2026 • ( 0 )

  If you’ve been using JADE’s free tier, you already know the basics: full-text search across 790,000+ Australian judicial decisions, legislation lookup, and basic citation links. It’s a solid research tool — and it’s free for good reason. We believe every… Read More ›

• Three ways Jasmine AI can strengthen your legal research

  By Editor-in-Chief on 15 February 2026 • ( 0 )

  Jasmine is JADE’s AI research assistant, and if you haven’t tried it yet, it’s worth a few minutes of your time. Rather than replacing traditional legal search, Jasmine sits alongside it — offering a conversational way to explore JADE’s database… Read More ›

• A fresh start for the Jadeful companion site

  By Editor-in-Chief on 15 February 2026 • ( 0 )

  We’ve just finished a significant refresh of the Jadeful companion site — and honestly, it’s been one of the more satisfying projects we’ve worked on in a while. For years, some of the help pages on this site carried placeholder… Read More ›

• JADE in 2026: 6 million citations and counting

  By Editor-in-Chief on 15 February 2026 • ( 0 )

  JADE has grown — and the numbers tell the story. As of early 2026, the platform indexes 790,000+ judicial decisions across 128 jurisdictions, with more than 6 million pinpoint citations mapped between them. That’s not just a database — it’s… Read More ›

• UTS OpenLaw Pathways to Justice

  By Editor-in-Chief on 8 August 2025 • ( 0 )

  “A decade since the landmark Redress and Civil Litigation Report (2015), it’s time to reflect—and act.” Open Law is proud to support the upcoming Pathways to Justice for Survivors of Institutional Child Abuse Conference (19–20 Sept 2025, Sydney). Featuring expert voices from survivor groups,… Read More ›

• JADE Recent Australian High Court Cases (HCA)

  By Editor-in-Chief on 11 February 2020 • ( 0 )

  Love v Commonwealth of Australia; Thoms v Commonwealth of Australia [2020] HCA 3 (11 February 2020) (Kiefel CJ, Bell, Gageler, Keane, Nettle, Gordon and Edelman JJ) Available in JADE Professional Layout. Citation Love v Commonwealth of Australia [2020] HCA 3… Read More ›

• Recent Victorian Reports (VR)

  By Editor-in-Chief on 10 December 2019 • ( 0 )

  The latest from the team Victorian Reports – Recently published (as at December 2019) Topics: Administrative law (4) Arbitration (1) Associations and clubs (1) Banks and banking (1) Building contracts (2) Carriers and carriage of goods (1) Companies (3) Costs (4) Courts (1) Criminal law (4) Equity (2) Evidence (2) Human rights (1)… Read More ›

• Legal Citation management in JADE

  By Editor-in-Chief on 4 June 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  Introducing the JADE Kitten™ In the last decade, the legal research team has grown at JADE. We’ve been putting the finishing touches on our new legal research range finder. As our astute readers know, we only use quality analogue computing… Read More ›