Preparing for practice II – GDL students Essay Research Workshop

Dear students

If you have struggled doing your PfP I please come to these workshops or if you would like to know more in depth info on how to do legal research for essay questions or problem solving research please come along. This is aimed at GDL students but LPC students are welcome to attend if they wish.

Preparing for practice II – GDL students Essay Research Workshop

All sessions will be in the 4th floor study area

Part 1 – Essay Research Workshop – commentary and textbooks

Part 2 – Essay Research Workshop – journals and newspapers

Tuesday 08 February 2011 GDL PfP training 10-11 am

Thursday 10 February 2011 GDL PfP training 10-11 am

Tuesday 15 February 2011 GDL PfP training 3-4 pm

Thursday 17 February 2011 GDL PfP training 10-11 am

Monday 28 February 2011 GDL PfP training 10-11 am

Tuesday 01 March 2011 GDL PfP training 3-4 pm

Thursday 03 March 2011 GDL PfP training 10-11 am

Friday 04 March 2011 GDL PfP training 3-4 pm

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Preparing for Practice – legal research help available

Dear GDL students

 

As you are in the middle of you PfP Formal and are soon to be starting your PfP II I wanted to remind you of the legal research support that is available to you.

 

Please check out the My library tab on Elite for Legal Research Guides, Legal Research FAQs, i-Guides (online tutorials) , Library Catalogue to look up books and journals held in the library, course and subject links, access to online databases.

 

As well as online help you can come and ask at the library for legal research advice.

 

I will be running more legal research workshops specifically aimed at the PfP II from week beginning 21st February but in the meantime you can go to the Lexis and Westlaw drop in sessions and presentations with demos. 

 

Check out Practitioner works by going to Lexis Library My bookshelf or to Westlaw Books. Westlaw has a range of full text journals but also has bibliographic journals via the legal journals Index which is specifically handy as you can then check to see if we hold the hard copy journal in the library. Lexis Library has different full text journals to Westlaw.

 

Also check out JustCite http://lawdbs.lawcol.com/login?url=http://www.Justcite.com useful for EU Cases, Legislation and bibliographic journals which links to full text on Europa, Westlaw, Lexis Library.

 

To check abbreviations go to Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations online http://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/ 

Also Estates Gazette interactive has access to EG journal articles and EG cases. http://www.egi.co.uk  to sign up ask at the enquiry desk for username and password details. 

Any questions ask at the library enquiry desk, 1st floor, email library-moorgate@lawcol.co.uk  or phone: 01483 21 6371.