Ask a question about Australian law. Open every case in the answer.

Not by itself, but the rules are set by your university and often by the individual subject convenor, so check the policy for each assessment. CaseSharp is a research and study tool: it finds authority, shows you where it came from, and helps you structure and cite your own work. It does not write assignments. Where your subject permits AI use with disclosure, disclose it, and keep the record of what you used it for.

No, and that is deliberate. Sharp answers questions about the law and produces briefs and citations from real judgments. It will not write your problem question answer or your research essay, because handing in generated work is the thing that gets students in front of a misconduct panel and follows them to the admissions board. The work it saves you is the searching and the formatting, not the thinking.

Open them. Every citation in every answer is a link into the judgment at the paragraph the claim came from, so verifying a case takes one click rather than a separate search. If Sharp cannot find authority for something, it tells you that instead of producing a citation to fill the gap. You should still read the cases you rely on, and every substantive answer says so.

The corpus covers 73,000 audited Australian decisions and is current to the end of April 2026. Judgments handed down after that date are not in it yet, so for anything very recent, check AustLII or your library database as well. We publish the coverage date in the footer and update it when the corpus is extended.

Because they are excellent at a different job. Lexis+ AU and Westlaw are practitioner research platforms with deep commentary and authorised reports, and if you need those, use them, they are already paid for. They were not built to brief a case for a tutorial, format AGLC4 footnotes, check the citing cases behind a scaffold, or work in the ten minutes before class. That is what CaseSharp is for, and most students who pay for it keep using their library databases too.

One paid plan, covering all eleven Priestley subjects, for as long as you keep it. Concretely: Sharp in all three modes, IRAC briefs, AGLC4 citations in full and short form with pinpoints, the citation graph on the cases in your notes, saved searches and authority packets. Annually it is A$470, which works out at about A$39 a month. If that is more than you need, the free plan is permanent and does not ask for a card. Student pricing is on the way.

That depends entirely on your university and your subject, and most exam rules restrict what you can have open. Assume you cannot unless your subject explicitly says you can. CaseSharp is built for the weeks before the exam: verifying your scaffold, drilling IRAC structure, and checking the cases that have cited the authorities in your notes.

Yes. Monthly plans cancel at the end of the billing period with no exit fee, and you keep everything you have saved. If you would rather not commit at all, the free plan is permanent, so you can stop paying over the break and keep your account, your notes and your saved authorities.

Yes. The reader, search and Sharp all work on a phone, which is the point: most tutorial reading happens on a train or in a twenty minute gap between classes, not at a desk. Longer work like building a brief or assembling an authority packet is easier on a laptop, but nothing is locked to desktop.

Your university logins stop working, usually within weeks, and the databases you spent four years learning go with them. Your CaseSharp account does not: everything you saved stays, the free plan does not expire, and you can keep or start a paid plan at the same price you were paying as a student. Nothing you have built disappears on the day your enrolment ends.