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Judgments OnLine (JOL) is a database of judgments with a sophisticated and purpose-built search engine, which gives you access to those recent judgments which are yet to be published or which may never be published in a printed law report. Frequently, judgments which form important precedent remain unpublished or appear in print much later.
The JOL database comprises all judgments received by LexisNexis Butterworths from the Constitutional, High, Labour Appeal, Labour Courts, Land Claims, Admiralty Courts and the Supreme Court of Appeal of the Republic of South Africa. Selected CCMA awards and decisions of the Court of the Commissioner of Patents also form part of the database. Included in the database are:
- Judgments which have yet to be published (or which may never be published!), from 1996 onwards;
- Judgments which have been
published in the All South African Law Reports since January 1996;
- Selected cases from the High Courts of certain neighbouring
southern African states.
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| How often is it updated? |
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New cases are uploaded on a daily basis. |
| What does the on-line service enable you to do? |
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As an
online product, JOL is updated daily. As fast as
LexisNexis Butterworths receives judgments, they are published on JOL
- much faster than they can be published in any other
format!
JOL page-breaks mirror those of the pages of the original court judgment as
transcribed and signed by the judge concerned. This means that when
using JOL as a research tool, any reference to a JOL
page number will directly correspond with the appropriate page number of
the transcript. Quoting JOL in
court is therefore also feasible. |
| Quick and easy searches |
- You can now find a
judgment using only a few pieces of information. You can:
- Use JOL to facilitate factual research;
- Find the most recent decisions on any aspect of law;
- Isolate specific trends in judicial thinking.
- By using a combination of search fields you can do
creative research previously not possible.
- Having used JOL and its associated products to thoroughly research the area of law which
interests you, use JOL to fine tune your strategic and tactical plan.
Each judgment listed in the JOL database has been individually
assessed and categorised. JOL subscribers can thus query the database intelligently and swiftly by using
either true key-word searching (searching through an index
of areas of law, legal principles and statutes referred to in each
judgment) or traditional plain text searching – right across the entire database!
Search fields include:
- Status of the judgment
(whether marked as "Reportable" or not);
- Case number/s;
- Dates of hearing and
judgment;
- Court jurisdiction;
- Court division;
- The full Bench in any
one matter;
- A list of judges
actually delivering judgments in any one matter;
- A full list of parties
to the matter;
- A list of legal
representatives involved in each matter;
- A categorisation of
the judgment into fields of law;
- A categorisation of
the judgment according to whether it reverses, confirms existing legal
principles or sets new precedent;
- A short title; and
- Keywords.
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