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
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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...
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...
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...
Make the most of legal databases
Achieving basic certification for legal databases (LexisLibrary, Westlaw UK and JustisOne) will give you a head start in making the most of these databases for your studies, and they also make a valuable addition...
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...
JustisOne (formerly known as JustCite)
JustCite is now JustisOne! JustisOne can be accessed via the Databases A-Z on the Library Homepage. JustisOne is a multi-source legal search engine and citator. It is provider-neutral and links to content from a...
LexisLibrary: Family Law Reports
This leading specialist family court reporting service is now available through LexisLibrary. Family Law Reports contain verbatim reports of every important Family Division, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and European courts case covering the whole...