Welcome to the JCU Library Guide to Legal Abbreviations
This list expands on some of the more commonly occurring abbreviations of the titles of law reports and law journals likely to be encountered by undergraduate students. Where titles are held in the James Cook University Library the call number is indicated, the last two columns indicate whether this title is in print in the Cairns or Townsville libraries, you can click the call number to go to the full library catalogue record to see holdings in more detail.
Online access
Where part or all of a journal or report series is available online a link to the relevant database is provided. The link to an online database does not imply that the whole series of reports or all issues of a journal are available online; it is simply an indication that at least some of the material is available online. Please check the information provided by the database for full details of coverage of a specific title.
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