Collection

1. AIR Infotech Database

AIR Infotech provides legal research software designed to support the information and research needs of legal scholars, jurists, law students, researchers, and legal practitioners.

LeSearch, an updated version of AIR Comprehensive Software, provides access to Supreme Court, High Court, and criminal law journal resources. Its search and filtering features are designed to help users locate relevant judicial decisions and legal information efficiently.

Core Database Features

• Case Law Search: Search for relevant judicial decisions and case law.
• Journal Filters: Refine search results by journal.
• Year Filters: Narrow results by year.
• Court Filters: Search decisions by court.
• Judge Filters: Identify decisions associated with particular judges.
• Case Result Filters: Refine results using case-related criteria.
• Legislation Filters: Search using relevant Acts and statutory provisions.

Coverage

• Supreme Court of India: Judgments and reports dating from 1950 onwards.
• High Courts of India: Decisions from Indian High Courts, with coverage periods varying by court and database.
• Privy Council: Historical judicial decisions available through the database’s archival collections.

2. AIR Online

AIR Online is a web-based legal research database that enables users to search for judicial decisions, legal citations, and relevant legal principles.

Key Features

• Citation Search: Retrieve judgments using AIR and other recognised legal journal citations.
• Boolean and Proximity Search: Use search operators such as AND and OR, exact phrases, and proximity-based queries to refine results.
• Judicial Precedents and Case Treatment: Identify how judgments have been cited or treated in subsequent decisions, including whether they have been affirmed or overruled, where such information is available.
• Nominal Search: Search for cases by the names of the parties involved.
  Subject and Statutory Search: Locate cases using legal subjects, Acts, and statutory provisions.