This document provides a guide for conducting legal research on criminal law. It discusses searching secondary sources, locating case law through reported decisions, neutral citations, and unpublished cases. It also addresses searching for news articles and resources for researching Indian law. The document is a copyrighted research guide produced by the Li Ka Shing Library at Singapore Management University.

1. Criminal Law (LAW103)
Legal Research
Charlotte Gill
Research Librarian, Law
August 2014
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3. Criminal Law Guide
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4. PYXIS - Articles
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5. PYXIS
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10. [2000] 0 SJLS 560
Locating a specific article in
LawNet
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12. Locating a specific article in LawNet
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15. Searching for articles around a
topic in LawNet
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16. Terms & Connectors
Connect the terms in a
way search engines can
process them.
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Phrase
 Phrase Search – use “__”
E.g.
“poison pill” means the words must appear in the
specified order.
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AND
 Boolean AND
X AND Y
both X and Y must be
present
negligence AND
causation
YX
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19. LawNet - Articles
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20. Articles
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21. Journal Article
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22. News Article
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Case

24. Case
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25. Searching for cases
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26. Locate:
S Balakrishnan & Anor v Public Prosecutor
[2005] 4 SLR 249
This is a reported case.
Locating Singapore Cases
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27. LawNet – Citation Search
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31. Neutral Citation
Locate:
Public Prosecutor v Chui Kuo Kwong
[2014] SGDC 316
This is an unreported case.
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32. Reading citations
Neutral citation
Year of decision Court Sequential
Number
[2007] SGHC 24
This is a system of citation where each written judgment from a particular level
of court is assigned a sequential number, starting from 1 at the beginning of
each calendar year.
Singapore Neutral Citations:
SGCA – Court of appeal
SGDC – District Court
SGFC – Family Court
SGHC – High Court
SGJC – Juvenile Court
SGMC – Magistrates Court
SGSC – Supreme Court
SGSCT – Small Claims Tribunal

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36. Malayan Law Journal
Locate
Abdullah v R
[1954] MLJ 195
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40. Searching for cases
around a topic in LawNet
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41. Searching for cases around a topic
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42. Searching for cases around a topic
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43. Refining search
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44. Unpublished Cases
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45. News
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46. Factiva
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50. India
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54. Locating Indian Cases
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55. Indian Case
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58.  Criminal Law Research Guide
 Start with secondary sources
 Case law: reported, unreported
and unpublished
 News
 India resources
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59. Q&A
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