Checklist of materials for legal research
The table below, referred to in the chapter of Teaching legal research on curriculum development”:/resources/curriculum-content-and-development/curriculum/, sets out the type of information source which ought to be included in the legal research curriculum for different types of law course.
The six types of course are:
- undergraduate non-law courses but with a law element (for example BA Business Studies, BA Social Work)
- undergraduate law courses (LLB)
- postgraduate vocational courses (Legal Practice Course and Bar Vocational Course)
- postgraduate non-vocational courses where students already possess a law degree (some LLM courses, and all research degrees)
- postgraduate non-vocational courses where students do not possess a law degree (for example, some LLM courses)
- continuing professional development (CPD) courses
Table 3: Checklist of materials to be featured in ‘Finding information’ section of legal research curricula
non-law degree | law degree | PG voc | PG non-voc (law first degree) | PG non-voc (non-law first degree) | CPD | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
General encyclopedias, digests and databases | ||||||
Halsbury’s Laws/Halsbury’s Direct | * | |||||
Halsbury’s Statutes/Legislation Direct | * | |||||
Halsbury’s Statutory Instruments | * | |||||
EU encyclopedias | (*) | * | * | * | ||
EU law | [*] | (*) | * | * | * | * |
The Digest | (*) | (*) | (*) | |||
Current Legal Information | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Current Law Monthly Digest | * | * | * | |||
Current Law Yearbook | (*) | * | * | |||
LexisNexis | * | * | [*] | [*] | * | |
Westlaw | * | * | [*] | [*] | * | |
Lawtel | * | * | * | [*] | [*] | * |
Internet free charge sites | * | * | * | * | * | * |
BIDS (academic host for non-law databases) | [*] | [*] | ||||
Legislation & Parliament | ||||||
Current Law Statutes Annotated | * | * | * | * | * | |
UK legislation | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Hansard | * | * | (*) | [*] | [*] | |
Parliamentary Papers | * | * | (*) | (*) | (*) | |
Internet free charge sites | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Law reports | ||||||
UK law report CDs | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Internet free charge sites | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Citators | ||||||
Current Law Case Citators | * | * | * | * | * | |
Current Law Statute Citators | * | |||||
Current Law SI Citator | * | |||||
Secondary sources – commentary | ||||||
Legal Journals Index | * | * | * | * | * | |
Index to Legal Periodicals | * | * | [*] | [*] | ||
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals | [*] | [*] | ||||
Public International Law (Bib) | [*] | [*] | ||||
newspaper databases | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Practitioner sources | ||||||
Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents | * | |||||
other precedent packages | * | |||||
Atkin’s Court Forms | * | |||||
Civil Procedure (The White Book) | * | |||||
Civil Court Practice (The Green Book) | * | |||||
Stone’s Justices’ Manual | * | |||||
Kemp & Kemp on Quantum of Damages | * | |||||
Butterworths PI Litigation Service | * | |||||
other specialist encyclopedias / texts | (*) | * | * | * | * | |
office forms (Laserforms or equivalent) | * | * | ||||
Non-law sources (selected examples) | ||||||
Index to Theses | (*) | [*] | [*] | |||
ASSIA (applied social sciences) | (*) | [*] | [*] | |||
Medline (medical) | [*] | [*] | ||||
Psychological Abstracts | (*) | [*] | [*] | |||
Datastream (company finance and economics) | (*) | [*] | [*] | [*] | ||
Kompass UK (business data) | (*) | [*] | [*] | [*] | ||
Companies House Direct | (*) | [*] | [*] | [*] | ||
Courseware | ||||||
Iolis | * | (*) |
Key
- = publication or database upon which students should receive hands-on instruction
(*) = publication or database of which students should be aware
[*] = publication or database the inclusion of which in hands-on training will depend on subject matter of the course
Last Modified: 30 June 2010
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