Knowles, John creator Thomas, Philip A. (Philip Aneurin) ( author) text London Sweet & Maxwell. c2009 2nd ed. monographic x, 177 p. : col. ill.; 24cm. 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 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 / Philip A. Thomas, and John Knowles Legal research Great Britain Information Retrieval Wales Legal information search 340.072 KNO 9781847038180 MCCL 20251125082744.0 eng.