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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