Knowles, John <br/><br/>
Effective legal research  
/  Philip A. Thomas, and John Knowles 
 - 2nd ed.  
 - London :   Sweet & Maxwell,   c2009.  
 - x, 177 p. :   col. ill.;   24cm.  
 - Legal Skills Series  .
<br/><br/>Acknowledgments		xi	<br/>Preface		xii	<br/>	1 Making the Most of a Law Library<br/>	<br/>	Introduction<br/>		1	(1)<br/>	The Library Catalogue<br/>		2	(1)<br/>	Books<br/>		3	(4)<br/>	E-books<br/>		4	(1)<br/>	Searching the library catalogue<br/>		5	(1)<br/>	Finding and borrowing books<br/>		6	(1)<br/>	Law Reports and Journals<br/>		7	(3)<br/>	Abbreviations<br/>		8	(1)<br/>	Tracing journals and law reports<br/>		9	(1)<br/>	Reference Sources<br/>		10	<br/>	Dictionaries<br/>		11	(1)<br/>	Tracing people and addresses<br/>		12	<br/>	2 Using Online Sources of Law<br/>	<br/>	Introduction<br/>		1	(1)<br/>	Subscription Database Providers<br/>		2	(6)<br/>	LexisNexis Butterworths<br/>		3	(1)<br/>	Westlaw UK<br/>		4	(1)<br/>	Lawtel<br/>		5	(1)<br/>	Justis Publishing<br/>		6	(1)<br/>	Jordans Publishing<br/>		7	(1)<br/>	Accessing Subscription Databases<br/>		8	(3)<br/>	Usernames and passwords<br/>		9	(1)<br/>	Library portals<br/>		10	(1)<br/>	Database Searching<br/>		11	(1)<br/>	Free Sources of Law on the Intemet<br/>		12	(4)<br/>	Statute Law Database<br/>		13	(1)<br/>	OPSI<br/>		14	(1)<br/>	Bailii<br/>		15	(1)<br/>	Internet Gateways<br/>		16	(1)<br/>	When to Use Print Sources<br/>		17	(1)<br/>	Combining Print and Electronic Sources<br/>		18	(1)<br/>	CD-ROMS<br/>		19	<br/>	3 Law Reports<br/>	<br/>	Introduction<br/>		1	(1)<br/>	The History of Law Reports<br/>		2	(1)<br/>	Citation of Law Reports<br/>		3	(2)<br/>	Neutral citations<br/>		4	(1)<br/>	How to Find the Meaning of Abbreviations<br/>		5	(1)<br/>	Format of Law Reports<br/>		6	(1)<br/>	Recent Law Reports<br/>		7	(3)<br/>	Finding recent law reports online<br/>		8	(1)<br/>	Finding recent law reports in print<br/>		9	(1)<br/>	The Law Reports Series<br/>		10	(1)<br/>	Older Law Reports<br/>		11	(3)<br/>	How to use the English Reports<br/>		12	(1)<br/>	Other older law reports<br/>		13	(1)<br/>	How to Find a Reported Case When You Only Know Its Name<br/>		14	(5)<br/>	How to use the Westlaw UK Cases search<br/>		15	(1)<br/>	How to use the Current Law Case Citators<br/>		16	(1)<br/>	How to trace a case in The Digest<br/>		17	(1)<br/>	Tracing a case through the indexes in law reports<br/>		18	(1)<br/>	Recent Unreported Judgments<br/>		19	(2)<br/>	How to find recent judgments<br/>		20	(1)<br/>	Summary: How To Find a Case<br/>	<br/>	How To Trace Journal Articles and Commentaries on a Case<br/>		21	(1)<br/>	How to find Updates on Recent Cases<br/>		22	(1)<br/>	European Human Rights Case Law<br/>		23	(4)<br/>	Tracing European Convention case law<br/>		24	(1)<br/>	Printed Judgments and decisions<br/>		25	(1)<br/>	Other sources of European human rights law<br/>		26	(1)<br/>	Tribunals<br/>		27	<br/>	Social welfare law<br/>		28	(1)<br/>	Reported decisions of other tribunals<br/>		29	<br/>	4 Legislation<br/>	<br/>	Introduction<br/>		1	(1)<br/>	The Structure of an Act<br/>		2	(3)<br/>	Citation of statutes<br/>		3	(1)<br/>	Citation of the names of monarchs and their regnal years<br/>		4	(1)<br/>	Modern Statutes<br/>		5	(12)<br/>	Official sources of statutes as originally enacted<br/>		6	(1)<br/>	Alternative sources for the official text of statutes<br/>		7	(1)<br/>	BAILII United Kingdom Statutes<br/>		8	(1)<br/>	Justis UK Statutes<br/>		9	(1)<br/>	Law Reports: Statutes<br/>		10	(1)<br/>	Current Law Statutes Annotated<br/>		11	(1)<br/>	Sources of statutes as currently in force<br/>		12	(1)<br/>	LexisNexis Butterworths Legislation search<br/>		13	(1)<br/>	Westlaw UK Legislation search<br/>		14	(1)<br/>	Statute Law Database<br/>		15	(1)<br/>	Halsbury's Statutes of England<br/>		16	(1)<br/>	Tracing commencements, amendments and relevant case law<br/>		17	(4)<br/>	How to use the Westlaw UK Legislation search<br/>		18	(1)<br/>	How to use the Current Law Legislation Citator<br/>		19	(1)<br/>	Chronological Table of Statutes<br/>		20	(1)<br/>	Older Statutes<br/>		21	(4)<br/>	Statutes of the Realm<br/>		22	(1)<br/>	Statutes at Large<br/>		23	(1)<br/>	Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum<br/>		24	(1)<br/>	Local and Personal Acts<br/>		25	(1)<br/>	Statutory Instruments<br/>		26	<br/>	Citation of statutory instruments<br/>		27	(1)<br/>	Tracing statutory instruments<br/>		28	(1)<br/>	Halsbury's Statutory instruments<br/>		29	(1)<br/>	Checking whether a statutory instrument is in force or has been amended<br/>		30	(1)<br/>	Tracing statutory instruments made under a particular act<br/>		31	(1)<br/>	Wales legislation<br/>		32	<br/>	5 Journals<br/>	<br/>	Types of Journals<br/>		1	(2)<br/>	Online access to journals<br/>		2	(1)<br/>	Finding a Journal Article Online if You Already Have a Reference<br/>		3	(1)<br/>	Finding a Journal Article in the Library<br/>		4	(1)<br/>	Tracing Articles in Legal Journals<br/>		5	(7)<br/>	Legal Journals Index<br/>		6	(1)<br/>	Index to Legal Periodicals and Books<br/>		7	(1)<br/>	Lawtel<br/>		8	(1)<br/>	Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals<br/>		9	(1)<br/>	Legal Resource Index (LegalTrac)<br/>		10	(1)<br/>	Halsbury's Laws<br/>		11	(1)<br/>	Tracing Law Related Journal Articles<br/>		12	(10)<br/>	Index to Legal Periodicals Related to Law<br/>		13	(1)<br/>	Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts<br/>		14	(1)<br/>	British Humanlties Index<br/>		15	(1)<br/>	Social Sciences Index<br/>		16	(1)<br/>	Psychological Abstracts (PsycINFO)<br/>		17	(1)<br/>	International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)<br/>		18	(1)<br/>	The Philosopher's Index<br/>		19	(1)<br/>	Sociological Abstracts<br/>		20	(1)<br/>	Social Sciences Citation Index<br/>		21	(1)<br/>	Newspaper Articles<br/>		22	(1)<br/>	Locating Journals From Other Libraries<br/>		23	<br/>	6 Uk Official Publications<br/>	<br/>	Introduction<br/>		1	(1)<br/>	Parliamentary Publications<br/>		2	(11)<br/>	Command papers<br/>		3	(1)<br/>	Citation and location of Command Papers<br/>		4	(1)<br/>	Papers of the House of Lords and House of Commons<br/>		5	(1)<br/>	Bills<br/>		6	(1)<br/>	Stages in the passage of a Bill<br/>		7	(1)<br/>	Changes to the text of a Bill<br/>		8	(1)<br/>	Tracing recent Bills<br/>		9	(1)<br/>	Tracing older Bills<br/>		10	(1)<br/>	Parliamentary debates<br/>		11	(1)<br/>	Using online sources to trace debates on a Bill<br/>		12	(1)<br/>	Non-Parliamentary Publications<br/>		13	(1)<br/>	Tracing Official Publications<br/>		14	<br/>	Stationery Office catalogues, indexes and website<br/>		15	(1)<br/>	Other sources for tracing official publications<br/>		16	(1)<br/>	Tracing Law Commission Reports and Working Papers<br/>		17	(1)<br/>	Tracing press releases<br/>		18	(1)<br/>	Tracing statistics<br/>		19	<br/>	7 How to Find Information on a Subject<br/>	<br/>	Introduction<br/>		1	(1)<br/>	Legal Encyclopedias<br/>		2	(6)<br/>	Halsbury's Laws of England<br/>		3	(1)<br/>	How to use Halsbury's Laws online<br/>		4	(1)<br/>	How to use Halsbury's Laws in print<br/>		5	(1)<br/>	Specialised encyclopedias<br/>		6	(1)<br/>	Precedent books and rule books<br/>		7	(1)<br/>	Tracing Cases on a Subject<br/>		8	(10)<br/>	How to use the Westlaw UK Subject/Keyword search<br/>		9	(1)<br/>	How to use full-text databases of case law<br/>		10	(1)<br/>	How to use databases of recent judgments<br/>		11	(1)<br/>	How to use the Current Law Monthly Digest<br/>		12	(1)<br/>	How to use the Current Law Year Books<br/>		13	(1)<br/>	The Digest<br/>		14	(1)<br/>	How to use the Digest to trace cases on a subject<br/>		15	(1)<br/>	How to use individual indexes to series of law reports to trace cases on a subject<br/>		16	(1)<br/>	Finding updates to recent cases by subject<br/>		17	(1)<br/>	Tracing the Subsequent Judicial History of a Case<br/>		18	(1)<br/>	How to Find Words and Phrases Judicially Considered<br/>		19	(1)<br/>	How to Trace Statutes on a Subject<br/>		20	(5)<br/>	How to use full-text databases of legislation<br/>		21	(1)<br/>	Other online sources for tracing legislation by subject<br/>		22	(1)<br/>	Halsbury's Statutes of England<br/>		23	(1)<br/>	Other print sources for tracing legislation on a subject<br/>		24	(1)<br/>	How to Trace Statutory Instruments on a Subject<br/>		25	(4)<br/>	Online sources for tracing statutory Instruments<br/>		26	(1)<br/>	Halsbury's Statutory Instruments<br/>		27	(1)<br/>	Tracing recent statutory instruments<br/>		28	(1)<br/>	Finding Books on a Subject<br/>		29	(9)<br/>	Legal bibliographies<br/>		30	(1)<br/>	D. Raistrick---Lawyer's Law Books<br/>		31	(1)<br/>	Current Law<br/>		32	(1)<br/>	Current Publications in Legal and Related Fields<br/>		33	(1)<br/>	Law books 1876-1981<br/>		34	(1)<br/>	Other legal bibliographies<br/>		35	(1)<br/>	The British National Bibliography<br/>		36	(1)<br/>	Sources for books in print<br/>		37	(1)<br/>	Theses<br/>		38	<br/>	8 European Union Law<br/>	<br/>	Introduction<br/>		1	(1)<br/>	The Europa website<br/>		2	(1)<br/>	EUR-Lex<br/>		3	(1)<br/>	The Official Journal<br/>		4	(1)<br/>	Treaties<br/>		5	(1)<br/>	Secondary Legislation<br/>		6	(16)<br/>	Citation of legislative acts<br/>		7	(1)<br/>	How to trace the text of a regulation or directive<br/>		8	(1)<br/>	How to trace legislation on a subject without a reference<br/>		9	(1)<br/>	How to check if legislation is in force<br/>		10	(1)<br/>	How to trace proposals for legislation<br/>		11	(1)<br/>	How to trace whether a directive has been implemented in the United Kingdom<br/>		12	(1)<br/>	Case Law<br/>		13	(1)<br/>	European Court Reports<br/>		14	(1)<br/>	Citation of European Court of Justice and Court of First Instance<br/>		15	(1)<br/>	Other sources of case law<br/>		16	(1)<br/>	How to find a Court of Justice judgment if you have the reference<br/>		17	(1)<br/>	How to find a judgment of the Court of Justice on a subject<br/>		18	(1)<br/>	How to trace further information on a case<br/>		19	(1)<br/>	How to trace cases which have interpreted legislation<br/>		20	(1)<br/>	How to trace recent judgments<br/>		21	(1)<br/>	Legal Encyclopedias<br/>		22	(1)<br/>	Books<br/>		23	(1)<br/>	Journals<br/>		24	(3)<br/>	How to find articles on EU law<br/>		25	(1)<br/>	The Bulletin of the European Union and General Report<br/>		26	(1)<br/>	Current Information<br/>		27	(128)<br/>Appendix I Online Sources of Scots and Northern Ireland Law		155	(3)<br/>Appendix II Abbreviations of Reports, Series and Journals		158	(6)<br/>Appendix III How Do I Find? A Summary of Sources for English Law		164	(7)<br/>Index		171	 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781847038180  TZS 41,000/= 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Legal research--Great Britain<br/>Information Retrieval--Wales <br/>Legal information search
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>340.072 KNO