Judicial Consideration of Legislation

Checking for judicial consideration of a piece of legislation involves searching for and finding cases in which a section of an Act has been referred to, considered, or discussed.

You can see if a piece of legislation has been judicially considered by the courts by doing a search in a case citator. Both Casebase and FirstPoint provide search boxes especially for this purpose.

• In CaseBase search in the fields "Act/Regulation" and "Provision".
• In FirstPoint search in the fields "Legislation Cited (Title)" and "Legislation Cited (Provision)"
• Provision means the section number of the legislation.

You can also use TimeBase LawOne's CaseLink.

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