Phasing instruction in information sources: materials
The table below, referred to in Teaching legal research, in the chapter on curriculum development, allocates the materials to be featured in the ‘Finding information’ section of legal research courses to phases in the delivery of the course course on 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
| non-law degree | law degree | PG voc (law first degree) | PG non-voc (non-law first degree) | PG non-voc | CPD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General encyclopedias, digests and databases | ||||||
| Halsbury’s Laws/Halsbury’s Direct | 1 | |||||
| Halsbury’s Statutes/Legislation Direct | 1 | |||||
| Halsbury’s Statutory Instruments | 2 | |||||
| EU encyclopedias | (2) | 3 | 1/2 | 2 | ||
| EU law | [(2)] | (2) | 3 | 1/2 | 2 | 2 |
| The Digest | 3 | (3) | (3) | |||
| Current Legal Information | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Current Law Monthly Digest | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Current Law Yearbook | (3) | 1 | 1 | |||
| LexisNexis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Westlaw | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Lawtel | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Internet free charge sites | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| BIDS (academic host for non-law databases) | (3) | [2/3] | 3 | |||
| Legislation & Parliament | ||||||
| Current Law Statutes Annotated | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| UK legislation | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Hansard | 3 | 2 | (3) | 3 | 3 | |
| Parliamentary Papers | 3 | 2 | (3) | (3) | (3) | |
| Internet free charge sites | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Law reports | ||||||
| UK law report CDs | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Internet free charge sites | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Citators | ||||||
| Current Law Case Citators | (1) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Current Law Statute Citators | 2 | |||||
| Current Law SI Citator | 3 | |||||
| Secondary sources – commentary | ||||||
| Legal Journals Index | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Index to Legal Periodicals | 2 | 2 | [1/3] | 3 | ||
| Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals | 3 | [1/3] | ||||
| Public International Law (Bib) | 3 | [1/3] | ||||
| newspaper databases | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Practitioner sources | ||||||
| Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents | 2 | |||||
| other precedent packages | 2 | |||||
| Atkin’s Court Forms | 2 | |||||
| Civil Procedure (The White Book) | 2 | |||||
| Civil Court Practice (The Green Book) | 2 | |||||
| Stone’s Justices’ Manual | 2 | |||||
| Kemp & Kemp on Quantum of Damages | 2 | |||||
| Butterworths PI Litigation Service | 2 | |||||
| other specialist encyclopedias / texts | (3) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| office forms (Laserforms or equivalent) | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Non-law sources (selected examples) | ||||||
| Index to Theses | (3) | [1/3] | 3 | |||
| ASSIA (applied social sciences) | (3) | [1/3] | 3 | |||
| Medline (medical) | [1/3] | 3 | ||||
| Psychological Abstracts | (3) | [1/3] | 3 | |||
| Datastream (company finance and economics) | (3) | [1/3] | 3 | 2 | ||
| Kompass UK (business data) | (3) | [1/3] | 3 | 2 | ||
| Companies House Direct | (3) | [1/3] | 3 | 2 | ||
| Courseware | ||||||
| Iolis | 1 | 1 | ||||
Key
2 = phase number – publication or database upon which students should receive hands-on instruction
(2) = phase number – publication or database of which students should be aware
2 = phase number – publication or database the inclusion of which in hands-on training will depend on subject matter of the course
1/3 = phase numbers – first number relates to higher degree by research; second number relates to taught higher degree with a research element in the latter stages
Last Modified: 30 June 2010
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