Effective legal research / Philip A. Thomas, and John Knowles

Acknowledgments xi
Preface xii
1 Making the Most of a Law Library

Introduction
1 (1)
The Library Catalogue
2 (1)
Books
3 (4)
E-books
4 (1)
Searching the library catalogue
5 (1)
Finding and borrowing books
6 (1)
Law Reports and Journals
7 (3)
Abbreviations
8 (1)
Tracing journals and law reports
9 (1)
Reference Sources
10
Dictionaries
11 (1)
Tracing people and addresses
12
2 Using Online Sources of Law

Introduction
1 (1)
Subscription Database Providers
2 (6)
LexisNexis Butterworths
3 (1)
Westlaw UK
4 (1)
Lawtel
5 (1)
Justis Publishing
6 (1)
Jordans Publishing
7 (1)
Accessing Subscription Databases
8 (3)
Usernames and passwords
9 (1)
Library portals
10 (1)
Database Searching
11 (1)
Free Sources of Law on the Intemet
12 (4)
Statute Law Database
13 (1)
OPSI
14 (1)
Bailii
15 (1)
Internet Gateways
16 (1)
When to Use Print Sources
17 (1)
Combining Print and Electronic Sources
18 (1)
CD-ROMS
19
3 Law Reports

Introduction
1 (1)
The History of Law Reports
2 (1)
Citation of Law Reports
3 (2)
Neutral citations
4 (1)
How to Find the Meaning of Abbreviations
5 (1)
Format of Law Reports
6 (1)
Recent Law Reports
7 (3)
Finding recent law reports online
8 (1)
Finding recent law reports in print
9 (1)
The Law Reports Series
10 (1)
Older Law Reports
11 (3)
How to use the English Reports
12 (1)
Other older law reports
13 (1)
How to Find a Reported Case When You Only Know Its Name
14 (5)
How to use the Westlaw UK Cases search
15 (1)
How to use the Current Law Case Citators
16 (1)
How to trace a case in The Digest
17 (1)
Tracing a case through the indexes in law reports
18 (1)
Recent Unreported Judgments
19 (2)
How to find recent judgments
20 (1)
Summary: How To Find a Case

How To Trace Journal Articles and Commentaries on a Case
21 (1)
How to find Updates on Recent Cases
22 (1)
European Human Rights Case Law
23 (4)
Tracing European Convention case law
24 (1)
Printed Judgments and decisions
25 (1)
Other sources of European human rights law
26 (1)
Tribunals
27
Social welfare law
28 (1)
Reported decisions of other tribunals
29
4 Legislation

Introduction
1 (1)
The Structure of an Act
2 (3)
Citation of statutes
3 (1)
Citation of the names of monarchs and their regnal years
4 (1)
Modern Statutes
5 (12)
Official sources of statutes as originally enacted
6 (1)
Alternative sources for the official text of statutes
7 (1)
BAILII United Kingdom Statutes
8 (1)
Justis UK Statutes
9 (1)
Law Reports: Statutes
10 (1)
Current Law Statutes Annotated
11 (1)
Sources of statutes as currently in force
12 (1)
LexisNexis Butterworths Legislation search
13 (1)
Westlaw UK Legislation search
14 (1)
Statute Law Database
15 (1)
Halsbury's Statutes of England
16 (1)
Tracing commencements, amendments and relevant case law
17 (4)
How to use the Westlaw UK Legislation search
18 (1)
How to use the Current Law Legislation Citator
19 (1)
Chronological Table of Statutes
20 (1)
Older Statutes
21 (4)
Statutes of the Realm
22 (1)
Statutes at Large
23 (1)
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
24 (1)
Local and Personal Acts
25 (1)
Statutory Instruments
26
Citation of statutory instruments
27 (1)
Tracing statutory instruments
28 (1)
Halsbury's Statutory instruments
29 (1)
Checking whether a statutory instrument is in force or has been amended
30 (1)
Tracing statutory instruments made under a particular act
31 (1)
Wales legislation
32
5 Journals

Types of Journals
1 (2)
Online access to journals
2 (1)
Finding a Journal Article Online if You Already Have a Reference
3 (1)
Finding a Journal Article in the Library
4 (1)
Tracing Articles in Legal Journals
5 (7)
Legal Journals Index
6 (1)
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
7 (1)
Lawtel
8 (1)
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
9 (1)
Legal Resource Index (LegalTrac)
10 (1)
Halsbury's Laws
11 (1)
Tracing Law Related Journal Articles
12 (10)
Index to Legal Periodicals Related to Law
13 (1)
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
14 (1)
British Humanlties Index
15 (1)
Social Sciences Index
16 (1)
Psychological Abstracts (PsycINFO)
17 (1)
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
18 (1)
The Philosopher's Index
19 (1)
Sociological Abstracts
20 (1)
Social Sciences Citation Index
21 (1)
Newspaper Articles
22 (1)
Locating Journals From Other Libraries
23
6 Uk Official Publications

Introduction
1 (1)
Parliamentary Publications
2 (11)
Command papers
3 (1)
Citation and location of Command Papers
4 (1)
Papers of the House of Lords and House of Commons
5 (1)
Bills
6 (1)
Stages in the passage of a Bill
7 (1)
Changes to the text of a Bill
8 (1)
Tracing recent Bills
9 (1)
Tracing older Bills
10 (1)
Parliamentary debates
11 (1)
Using online sources to trace debates on a Bill
12 (1)
Non-Parliamentary Publications
13 (1)
Tracing Official Publications
14
Stationery Office catalogues, indexes and website
15 (1)
Other sources for tracing official publications
16 (1)
Tracing Law Commission Reports and Working Papers
17 (1)
Tracing press releases
18 (1)
Tracing statistics
19
7 How to Find Information on a Subject

Introduction
1 (1)
Legal Encyclopedias
2 (6)
Halsbury's Laws of England
3 (1)
How to use Halsbury's Laws online
4 (1)
How to use Halsbury's Laws in print
5 (1)
Specialised encyclopedias
6 (1)
Precedent books and rule books
7 (1)
Tracing Cases on a Subject
8 (10)
How to use the Westlaw UK Subject/Keyword search
9 (1)
How to use full-text databases of case law
10 (1)
How to use databases of recent judgments
11 (1)
How to use the Current Law Monthly Digest
12 (1)
How to use the Current Law Year Books
13 (1)
The Digest
14 (1)
How to use the Digest to trace cases on a subject
15 (1)
How to use individual indexes to series of law reports to trace cases on a subject
16 (1)
Finding updates to recent cases by subject
17 (1)
Tracing the Subsequent Judicial History of a Case
18 (1)
How to Find Words and Phrases Judicially Considered
19 (1)
How to Trace Statutes on a Subject
20 (5)
How to use full-text databases of legislation
21 (1)
Other online sources for tracing legislation by subject
22 (1)
Halsbury's Statutes of England
23 (1)
Other print sources for tracing legislation on a subject
24 (1)
How to Trace Statutory Instruments on a Subject
25 (4)
Online sources for tracing statutory Instruments
26 (1)
Halsbury's Statutory Instruments
27 (1)
Tracing recent statutory instruments
28 (1)
Finding Books on a Subject
29 (9)
Legal bibliographies
30 (1)
D. Raistrick---Lawyer's Law Books
31 (1)
Current Law
32 (1)
Current Publications in Legal and Related Fields
33 (1)
Law books 1876-1981
34 (1)
Other legal bibliographies
35 (1)
The British National Bibliography
36 (1)
Sources for books in print
37 (1)
Theses
38
8 European Union Law

Introduction
1 (1)
The Europa website
2 (1)
EUR-Lex
3 (1)
The Official Journal
4 (1)
Treaties
5 (1)
Secondary Legislation
6 (16)
Citation of legislative acts
7 (1)
How to trace the text of a regulation or directive
8 (1)
How to trace legislation on a subject without a reference
9 (1)
How to check if legislation is in force
10 (1)
How to trace proposals for legislation
11 (1)
How to trace whether a directive has been implemented in the United Kingdom
12 (1)
Case Law
13 (1)
European Court Reports
14 (1)
Citation of European Court of Justice and Court of First Instance
15 (1)
Other sources of case law
16 (1)
How to find a Court of Justice judgment if you have the reference
17 (1)
How to find a judgment of the Court of Justice on a subject
18 (1)
How to trace further information on a case
19 (1)
How to trace cases which have interpreted legislation
20 (1)
How to trace recent judgments
21 (1)
Legal Encyclopedias
22 (1)
Books
23 (1)
Journals
24 (3)
How to find articles on EU law
25 (1)
The Bulletin of the European Union and General Report
26 (1)
Current Information
27 (128)
Appendix I Online Sources of Scots and Northern Ireland Law 155 (3)
Appendix II Abbreviations of Reports, Series and Journals 158 (6)
Appendix III How Do I Find? A Summary of Sources for English Law 164 (7)
Index 171

Effective Legal Research' helps students develop confidence in legal research. The book demonstrates the processes of consulting the various sources, & shows how to use a legal library. It uses diagrams, flowcharts, illustrations from print sources, & screen shots from web sources to explain research procedures