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CaseSharp

Melbourne, Victoria

What Melbourne already gives you for legal research.

Your library pays for Lexis+ Australia and Westlaw Australia. Open each from the library's own link below. Use what you have first; this page shows where CaseSharp fits beside it.

Checked
13 October 2026
Independence
Not affiliated with or endorsed by the University of Melbourne

Through your Melbourne library

Open each one from the library's own entry and sign in with your university account. These hold the authorised reports, the commentary and the citators.

How to get in at Melbourne

  1. Open it from your library

    Start from the library's own link: the buttons on these pages, or the library's database list. Library links are set up for your university's sign-in.

  2. Sign in as a student

    Use your university account when the database asks. Some sign-in screens ask for your institution first: for Westlaw AU, ANU's Law Library says to choose Access through Australian academic institutions at the bottom of the screen.

    Read from ANU Library: Law

AI research tools

Some law schools now license generative AI research tools. We found no public statement naming one for Melbourne law students.

None named in public

The Melbourne pages we read don't name a generative AI legal research tool. If the library licenses one, it will be in its database list. Either way, your unit outline decides whether you may use one in an assessment.

Free to everyone, no login

These work wherever you study, on any device, and after you graduate.

Which tool for which job

Most research jobs belong to your library's databases or the free sources. CaseSharp has one row.

Through your library loginFree to anyoneFree to many law studentsGenerative AI

  • Read a case in its authorised report

    • Westlaw (holds the CLR), through your library login
    • Lexis+ (most state series), through your library login

  • Find commentary or an encyclopaedia entry

    • Halsbury's Laws of Australia, in Lexis+, through your library login
    • The Laws of Australia, in Westlaw, through your library login

  • See how later cases treated a case

    • CaseBase, in Lexis+, through your library login
    • KeyCite, in Westlaw, through your library login
    • LawCite, on AustLII, free to anyone
    • JADE, free to anyone

  • Read a judgment or an Act without a login

    • AustLII, free to anyone
    • JADE, free to anyone
    • The official court and legislation sites, free to anyone

  • Check the case citations in your own draftThe one job CaseSharp does

    • CaseSharp citation check (beta), free to anyone
    • JADE Professional document upload, free to many law students

  • Ask a research question in plain English

    • Protégé, Westlaw Precision AI or Harvey, where your school licenses one and your unit allows it, generative ai

Where CaseSharp fits

One narrow job, beside your library.

CaseSharp checks the case citations in your own draft against court records, then links you to read each case on the court's site, AustLII or JADE. Nothing about it depends on Melbourne, and it uses no generative AI, at any step.

Matches our recordDiffers from our recordNot in our records
Try a check, no account

Paste up to 10 footnotes. Nothing is stored. Or create a free account and check 3 drafts a month, free.

It does

  • Matches each case's name, year, report and court against our records
  • Gives each case citation one of three labels
  • Links you to the judgment on the court's site, AustLII or JADE
  • Leaves the call to you: you confirm each authority yourself

It doesn't

  • Hold commentary, journals or authorised report text. Your library does.
  • Tell you how later cases treated a case. A citator does.
  • Hold all Australian case law. “Not in our records” never means a case is wrong. What CaseSharp holds
  • Write, rewrite or suggest anything in your assignment

Already have JADE Professional?

JADE Professional lets you upload a legal document and check its citations. If that does the job for you, you don't need CaseSharp. JADE Professional features

How we checked

We read each school's public library pages, and the public announcements named on each page, on 13 October 2026. We only list what those pages say. Libraries change what they license, often at the start of a year or semester, so the library's own page always wins over this one.

Spotted something out of date? Email hello@casesharp.ai with a link to the library page and we'll correct it.

Independence

CaseSharp is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the University of Melbourne. Names of universities are used only to describe who a page is written for.

No logos, no crests, no partnerships. Nobody paid to be on these pages.

Questions Melbourne students ask

How do I get into Lexis+ and Westlaw at Melbourne?
Through the Melbourne library. Open Lexis+ Australia or Westlaw Australia from the library's own entry for it (the buttons on this page), its database list or its law guide, and sign in with your university account.
Can I get JADE Professional free at Melbourne?
The Law Library says law students can get JADE Professional free by emailing JADE from their UniMelb address. It adds alerts, and lets you upload a document to check its citations.
Can I use AI tools in my Melbourne assignments?
Your unit outline decides, and the rule can differ between assessments in the same unit. Read it before you use any tool, including CaseSharp, and say what you used where your unit asks you to. CaseSharp's citation check uses no generative AI.
Is CaseSharp connected to the University of Melbourne?
No. CaseSharp is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the University of Melbourne. Names of universities are used only to describe who a page is written for. There are no partnerships, no site licences and no institutional agreements to disclose.

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