Help Topics

• Help for First Time Visitors
  The essential information for first time visitors to AustLII, offered in the hope that it will save hours of frustrating and fruitless searching.

• Frequently Asked Questions
  To save you time, we have collected the most frequently asked questions into a list complete with the answers.

• User Guide to AustLII
  An explanation of how to use AustLII's main features in a nutshell. More detailed help topics on specific features are set out below.

• Guide to Legal Research on the Web
  A guide to researching Australian law on the Internet, but also deals with researching international and overseas laws from the perspective of an Australian lawyer.

• Search Help
  Information on how to search AustLII for materials, including basic and advanced search techniques and tips. Help is given for both beginner and advanced users on using AustLII's SINO search engine.

• Legal Publishers Search Help
  Information on how to search the online content of participating Australian legal publishers using AustLII.

• Displaying Search Results Help
  Information on how to use the AustLII search results interface to refine how your search results are displayed.

• LawCite Help
  Information on how to use LawCite, AustLII's free International Law Citator.

• Case Law Help
  Help on how to navigate and use case law (court judgments, tribunal decisions), such as help on printing, searching and downloading.

• Cases Signed by AustLII
  AustLII has developed a digitally signed and watermarked ("signed by AustLII") format for most of the more than 120 courts and tribunals decisions that are published on AustLII.

• Legislation Help
  Introduction to legislation and help on how to navigate and use legislation. Also includes help on printing, searching and downloading acts and regulations.

• Secondary Materials Help
  Help on how to navigate and use secondary materials, such as help on printing, locating organisation home pages and searching sites.

• Australian Taxation Office Rulings and Determinations Help
  Help on how to navigate and use the Australian Taxation Office Rulings and Determinations databases.

• Australian Treaties Library Help
  Help on the Australian Treaties Library.

• Downloading Help
  Help on viewing an entire act or set of regulations as well as cases, and downloading files for printing.

• AustLII Toolbar Help
  Describes how to install/uninstall and configure the AustLII Toolbar for the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser and the Netscape, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey Suite and Mozilla Firefox web browsers on supported operating systems.

Advanced Search Help Topics

• SINO Full Documentation
  Full documentation for the SINO search engine used by AustLII, including supported search language emulations, full boolean syntax and support for regular expressions.

• SINO Search Operators
  An explanation of the search operators (including boolean) which are supported by the SINO search engine.

• SINO Common Words
  A "common word" is a word that is so common that it is ignored in searches unless preceded by either a # sign or a + sign. This is the list of common words used by AustLII.

Web Developer Help Topics

• AustLII Usage Policy
  Policy on use of documents located on AustLII

• Linking Policy
  Information on AustLII's policy for "deep linking", or linking to AustLII resources. Includes guidelines for acceptable framing of AustLII content and other information.

• AustLII Logos, Buttons
  If you'd like to put a link to AustLII on your own web pages we have some logos and buttons that you can use.

• Search Form Examples
  Contains sample HTML that you can cut and paste into your own web pages to provide an AustLII search form from them.