Accessing Halsbury’s Laws of England online
Halsbury’s Laws of England is an authoritative encyclopaedia of the law in England and Wales, and is a great place to start researching legal areas that are new to you. Halsbury’s Laws of England...
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Make the most of legal databases
Achieving basic certification for legal databases (Lexis+ UK and Westlaw UK) will give you a head start in making the most of these databases for your studies, and they also make a valuable addition...
New Lexis Platform – Introducing Lexis+ UK
After many years with the same ‘look’, Lexis Library has updated its interface to a new and more streamlined version called Lexis+ UK. From Monday 26th September 2022, when you go onto Lexis, this...
Find Law print textbooks in the library using the shelfmark
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is the classification system we use to arrange books on our library shelves by subject. DDC gives each subject area a number and these are displayed on spine labels on...
Legal Skills and Research: Keeping up to date
The law is always changing and keeping abreast of the changes in your research area can be challenging. This is true for all students studying law, but especially for those students involved with the Sunderland...
Westlaw: express tips for research assignments
Westlaw UK have produced a short guide of ‘express tips’ which will be useful when you are using Westlaw to do research for assignments, dissertations and exams. Westlaw Express Tips
Referencing using OSCOLA
Being able to accurately cite the source you have used in your work is an important academic skill. Citing correctly: Provides the relevant legal authority to support your work Enables the reader to find...
Get started with legal research
All research involves a lot of searching and reading, and you should expect to have to read quite a lot before finding what you’re looking for. So don’t despair if you can’t immediately find...