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Use the form below to search for documents in this web containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples.
The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. This is called Boolean searching (named after George Boole.) For example if you type:
- case law
- you would find all documents containing both the words 'case' or 'law'
or you may type:- case or law
- producing the same results as above
now if you were to type:- case and law
- you would find ONLY documents containing both 'case' and 'law' which would eliminate all documents that had just one of your search terms
to narrow your search you could type:- case not law
- and thereby find documents containing 'case' but not 'law'
the final search term is a little more complex but allows you to narrow your search even more if you were to type:- (case not law) and judgement
- you would find documents containing 'judgement', plus the word 'case' but not the word 'law'
Finally, by adding a star * to the end of a word (or part of a word) you gain the power to search for words that may have many various endings - for example:- jud*
- would find all documents containing words starting with 'jud' and having any ending (judgment, judging, judges, judged etc.)
Once you find a document that is of interest you may quickly search the individual document by doing the following:
- In Netscape: go to the edit menu and select 'find' then type in the word you are interested in. Netscape will take you to the first occurrence
- In Microsoft Internet Explorer: go to the edit menu and select 'find on this page' and do as above