SCC Online Guide
Red (Tiles): My Library
The main difference between the red and blue tiles is that under the blue tiles all the
content is unstructured and access is on the basis of how you fire a query, however, under
the Red tiles all the content is structured.
1. Curated Topics: It helps you get a broad overview of a topic under this.
a. Under this, you will have the statues and acts which are even marginally
connected to the topic
b. And you will have all the case laws which are relevant and important.
2. Law Reports: It is similar to the reference section in the library. It contains all the
reporters and their details. Under this, you can find any judgement reported in that
law reporter, by year, volume number and page number, if reported by any of these
law reporters.
3. Judgements: This provides you all judgements reported by SCC Online for the courts,
tribunals and Commissions of India, courts of foreign countries and International
Courts mentioned on any particular day of the month of any year.
Special Feature: If there are more 5 Judges or
more on the bench, then the list offers you the
number of the judges
in the judgement itself.
4. Acts and Rules: This provides you all the Acts and the rules and regulations enacted
under it, keep an eye out for the amendments and the overruled ones which are
marked with a red exclamation mark.
a. Special Feature: Funnel Search:
It allows you to search within the
Acts by title, making the process
easier.
5. Articles (Short Pieces): It has essays from different spheres of law and can be
accessed.
a. Law Review Articles: It has all Law Reviews from various law schools and the
SCC Online blog which is re-indexed here.
b. It also contains law lectures given by legal luminaires at the Calcutta
University since 1870 and can help with historical research. The Tagore Law
Lectures are an annual lecture series organised and hosted by the University
of Calcutta, in India. The series is named after Prasanna Kumar Tagore, an
Indian lawyer and politician, who established the series in 1868. The first
lecture in the series was delivered by Herbert Cowell, in 1870, on Hindu law
as administered in British courts in India.
6. Secondary Material:
a. It contains the Bills that have been presented in the Parliament
b. Policy documents as per their title.
c. It also contains different committee reports which can be useful in understanding
the development of an act. For e.g.: The Patents Act 1970 and the all the reports
of the Law Commission of India. Some foreign and international reports are also
included e.g., on Crypto currencies.
7. Treaties:
a. Bilateral Treaties: It contains the treaties that the Indian Government has got
into with foreign governments, you can use the funnel search here to search
a certain type of treaty or a country etc. (Bilateral Treaties).
b. Multilateral Treaties: It also contains many multilateral treaties administered
by the United Nations and other international organizations
8. Moot Court Resources: It has an Introduction to Mooting by Mr. Murali
Neelakandan (NLS, Batch of 1996, Judge, India Rounds, Jessop) which you can go
through if you are interested in mooting.
a. It contains documents from different law schools like memorials, the winners,
the problem etc. which can help you get an insight on how mooting in that
particular year was structure.
9. Legal and Business News: It provides you day and month-wise breakup of important
legal news in different courts, tribunals and commissions.
Special Feature: If there are more than 3 judges,
then the search offers you the number of the
judges
in the judgement itself.
Blue Tiles: ReSearch+
1. Words and Phrases: It provides you the definition of words and phrases as they have
been defined in Statues, judgments and specialized law dictionaries like Wharton’s
and Wilson’s.
a. Typed Text: This feature will allow you to search for the definition where the
Word searched for is the first Word
b. Typed Text Anywhere: This feature will allow you to search for the definition
where the Word searched for can be anywhere in the Words or Phrases
2. Find by Topic: This feature allows you to formulate your query based on Topics or
Statutes. The Topic and Statute guide is the Index under which every ruling (ratio) of
the Supreme Court has categorized under.
a. Search Everywhere: It will search your topic-based query in the entire data
base (Broad Search).
b. Search in Digest Notes: It will search your topic-based query in just the digest
notes (Concise Search).
Note: Digest Note: it is a summary of the point of law which has been
decided by that particular judgement
c. Search in Headings: It will search your query in the headings of the Digest
Notes (Specific Search).
3. Find by Party Name: This feature allows you to search the judgement on the basis of
the party names.
a. The wildcards like ? and * can be used here. The wildcard ? replaces one
letter of the alphabet and the wild card * generates results for all
combinations of the root word.
Example: Sanj?y – will return both Sanjay and Sanjoy and Ramesh* will return
both Ramesh, Rameshwar and Rameshwari
b. Famous Case names: This can also be used to find the judgement which was
famously known by any certain name like Nirbhaya Case, Babri Masjid Case
etc.
4. Find by Citation: Every case has a citation on the basis of the time of its reporting,
the reported series, the volume etc., this can be used to find a particular judgement
on that basis.
5. Find Case Law by Section: This feature allows you to find all relevant case laws under
one particular section of an Act.
6. The Word Search: This allows you to search on any topic expansively. There are
certain Boolean features, use these links to understand them better:
a. OR: https://help.scconline.com/en/article/how-to-use-the-or-boolean-
operator-x4e2vb/
b. NOT: https://help.scconline.com/en/article/how-to-use-the-not-boolean-
operator-1tigoin/
c. NEAR: https://help.scconline.com/en/article/how-to-use-the-near-
boolean-operator-1ahl63f/
d. AND: This allows you to search two words together.
Grey (Tiles): Links
The relevant material for you under these is under:
1. Heinonline: This particular resource can be used to research on several different
articles and research papers written by academic scholars. If you are researching for
any legal course, then fire your topic here and read on the relevant articles.
2. LawNet: Access to the entire Singapore Law – Statutes, Caselaw (Nidhi please
complete the list)
3. SCC Blog:
a. Op-eds: This section contains all the articles which can be helpful in
understanding concepts related to contemporary issues.
b. Case Briefs: This contains all the relevant judgements which have been
passed recently and allows you to understand contemporary law.
c. Experts Corner: This contains articles by experts in the field which might be
of interest to you if you are researching on a topic they have written on.
4. EBC Webstore: Marketplace to purchase EBC and other publisher Titles
My Folders: The My Folders feature allows saving and sorting a document for future
reference. Documents added to My Folders can be viewed, modified, and sorted in the My
SCCOnline menu.
My Folders allows sorting of documents in alphabetical, coram size, court name order and
chronological orders. It also allows creation of sub-folders for better organisation.
Hovering over the Action tab allows copying or moving notes to other folders. There is also
an option to Print Summary, which showcases only the main headings of results.
My Case Compilation: Case compilation allows organizing research and converting it into
one consolidated document. The option to create a case compilation is present in the Action
tab of My Folders. All or selected documents within the Folder or sub-folder can be used to
create a Case Compilation.
In the resulting popup, the Case Compilation can be named or renamed, selected
documents may be reordered, and page size (A4 or legal) may be indicated.
Among its many use cases, Case Compilation is especially useful for lawyers looking to take
bulk printouts of relevant judgments, and law students working on compendiums for moot
court competitions.
