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NSW Law Reports

Built by the Rush Hour Digital team. I worked across the Drupal and Next.js layers as one of its full-stack developers.

Client
Council of Law Reporting for NSW
Delivered by
Rush Hour Digital
My role
Full-stack developer, RHD team
Stack
Drupal · Next.js · React · PHP · Lando
Scope
Publishing models, search-led discovery, subscription and account flows
nswlr.com.au
NSW Law Reports — home screen

01Overview

NSW Law Reports is a live publishing product for legal research and report access, combining structured content, search journeys and subscription-facing user flows.

02Challenge

Dense legal research content had to read clearly, search well and respect subscriptions — without making editorial publishing or frontend delivery harder to maintain.

03My role

On the Rush Hour Digital team I worked across content-model assumptions, frontend rendering and the connected publishing and account flows that turn complex legal material into searchable interfaces.

04Architecture

  1. L1

    Drupal publishing backend

  2. L2

    Editorial content models + APIs

  3. L3

    Next.js reading & navigation layer

  4. L4

    Search · subscription · account flows

05Key challenges

  1. 01Presenting dense legal content so it stays clear, searchable and manageable for editors.
  2. 02Supporting search and subscription flows without splitting the reading experience into disconnected systems.
  3. 03Evolving publishing and account features without regressions on a live product.

06Decisions

  1. 01Drupal for structured legal content and editorial control; Next.js for the public experience.
  2. 02Publishing, search and account features kept inside one connected delivery pattern.
  3. 03Structured content models so legal material is reusable across search, navigation and reading contexts.

07Result

Structured legal content, discovery journeys and subscription flows are delivered through one consistent full-stack implementation.

08Screens

nswlr.com.au
NSW Law Reports on a phone

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