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Westlaw and Lawtel Legal Research Drop-in Sessions
Dear GDL & LPC students,
This is just a short reminder that Westlaw and Lawtel online legal research support is still available to you.
Current drop-in hours are on Fridays (starting from 4th February)
between 11:30 – 14:30 on the 4th Floor Study Area
Alternatively, presentations are scheduled for:
Thursday 3rd February 14:00 – 15:00
Friday 4th February 12:00 – 13:00
Thursday 10th March 12:00 – 13:00
Friday 11 March 12:00 – 13:00
All those who attend a presentation will automatically be entered into a
Prize draw for £50 worth of Itunes vouchers.
Free Westlaw stationary and promotional goodies are also up for grabs.
Should you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact @ Louis.bellamacina65@lawcol.co.uk
Good news, Westlaw and Lawtel legal research drop in sessions are back.
Feel free to pop by to one of the drop-in sessions and immerse yourself in a diet of practical research tips.
Drop-in sessions Wednesdays: 11:30 - 14:30 – 4th Floor Study Area
If you have a specific research query in mind, you can email me @ Louis.Bellamacina65@lawcol.co.uk
Westlaw and Lawtel Associate
Louis Bellamacina
Lexis Library Legal Research Sessions (Both LPC and GDL students can attend)
Natalia Spyrides, is your trained Lexis Nexis student associate this year.
She is here to help you use all the features of Lexis Library.
Depending on the demand there may be more sessions each Wednesday, but the drop in sessions will still run every Monday 12-2pm in the Cyber Cafe.
Competition: do you want a chance to win a £50 voucher for a store of your choice. All you have to do is email Natalia natalia.spyrides10@lawcol.co.uk and she will send you the competition. The deadline is Monday 13th December.
If you can’t make these then please email Natalia,
natalia.spyrides10@lawcol.co.uk, and we can make alternative arrangements.
Westlaw and Lawtel Legal Research Sessions (Both LPC and GDL students can attend
Do you ever wake up with a strong desire to learn more about online legal research? Probably not.
Good news, Westlaw and Lawtel legal research sessions are now live.
Feel free to sign up to these on Elite or pop by to one of the drop-in sessions and immerse yourself in a diet of practical research tips.
Drop-in sessions (Basement Cyber Café) every Monday between 10:00-12:00 ending on 13th December starting again in January
Competition: do you want a chance to win a £50 voucher of your choice. All you have to do attend a Thursday session and you will automatically be entered into the prize draw.
Raffle: between now and the end of January, a raffle will be held at each Thursday session and the winner will be presented with a set of four Westlaw shot glasses, a pair of Westlaw headphones and a handful of pens.
If you have a specific research query in mind, you can email me @ Louis.Bellamacina65@lawcol.co.uk
Westlaw and Lawtel Associate
Louis Bellamacina
Dear Students,
I am running online research sessions that are advertised on Elite – Events and Sign up but I understand that you may not be able to attend these sessions if they clash with your classes or if you are too busy.
Just to remind you that there is lots of online help in the My Library tab on Elite but in addition to that I want to give you a few useful tips here in case you miss my talk. Also you can ask me for help anytime in the library.
You can find access to all our subscribed databases on Elite in the My Library tab under databases and electronic resources.
If you have a legal question but you don’t know what sources each database contains you could start with using JustCite which is listed in the electronic resources section. Click on JustCite then - click the gray bar which says continue to JustCite – this will lead you to a search box.
For example: type in the citation : [2001] 2 W.L.R. 992 and click on the result link of the same name which will lead you to Westlaw which is automatically linked to the Westlaw database and will take you directly to the full text of the case without you having to search in Westlaw or put in any password.
If you search for an All England Law Report if you know the citation it will take you through to Lexis Library in the same way.
On JustCite you can also search for legislation, journal articles, use keywords, free text search, find EU information and it will lead you through to the database containing the full text. If the College of Law don’t subscribe to the source it will tell you the name of the publisher where you can find it. JustCite also links to free websites and legal information online and because JustCite is a trusted source the links through to the websites will be safer than relying on your own judgment to know if it is an authoritative source.
On the subject of using free information on the web remember that sites can be out of date and the law is always changing so even Government websites may be behind so always look for a date on the information you are reading online to see how current it is and to be safe you may have to look for the same infomation in two or more places to make sure it is accurate. If you are uncertain you can always ring the contact details on the website or if it is a database you can ring the helpdesk to make sure.
You can find case and legaislation information on both Lexis Library and Westlaw, they both have lots of sources of information including, case citators, law reports, journal articles, European information. To check what sources they have go to the source tab and look up individual sources.
Be aware that not all legal information is available online and some of the older cases or Scottish law or International law will not be available in the subscribed sources some might be in paper form like the Old English Reports available in the Moorgate library on the 1st floor also some information may be freely available online for example Europa http://europa.eu/index_en.htm :-
European legislation http://eur-lex.europa.eu/RECH_legislation.do?ihmlang=en, Regulations, Directives, Acts
Official Journal http://publications.europa.eu/official/index_en.htm, L series, C series, S series (legislation, cases, tenders)
Statistics, http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute http://www.bailii.org/website is a useful and reliable source of information.
For free access to UK Legislation you can use the government website: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ this is a combination of the OPSI website and the Statute Law database which means you have access to original legislation at date or enactment but also some amended legislation see link for further explanation. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/help#aboutOpsiSld
If you want to learn about Bills before parliament and read House of Commons and House of Lords debates in full text go to the Parliament website http://www.parliament.uk/
Bills before Parliament: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/
Hansard debates: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/
House of Commons Weekly information Bulletin: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmwib.htm gives the schedule of what’s on in parliament in the House of Commons
Enjoy researching,
Moorgate Library
SIGN UP via ELITE. From ELITE homepage choose:
1) My Centre
2) “Click here for more information”
3) “Events and Sign up” (last link in green column, left hand side)
4) Click on the session you wish to attend
| Date | Time | Where | |
| LexisLibrary – hosted by | Thurs 08 Oct | 12-1pm | 3rd floor PC room |
| Professional Lexis trainer | 1-2pm | 3rd floor PC room | |
| 3-4pm | 3rd floor PC room | ||
| Lawtel – hosted by | Fri 9th Oct | 12-1pm | 4th floor PC room |
| Professional Lawtel trainer. **Recommended** as Lawtel | 1-2pm | 4th floor PC room | |
| has be re-designed. Will include CPR research. | |||
| Westlaw – hosted by | Fri 9th Oct | 3-4pm | 4th floor PC room |
| professional Westlaw trainer | 4-5pm | 4th floor PC room | |
| Online research | Mon 12th Oct | 10-11am | 4th floor PC room |
| 2-3pm | 4th floor PC room | ||
| Weds 14th Oct | 10-11am | 4th floor PC room | |
| 2-3pm | 4th floor PC room |
The paper sources training sessions are all full. Please refer to the i-guides which use flowcharts with embedded commentary and video.
Your student associates for this year are:
Ahmed Badr for Lexis and Ezra Steinhardt for Westlaw
They will be available throughout the year to provide tips, advice and training sessions on using the legal databases.
Look out for:
e-mails
postings here on the Library Blog
or email them direct at Ezra.Steinhardt97@lawcol.co.uk and Ahmed.Badr39@lawcol.co.uk with any database queries you may have.
Ezra, Westlaw rep
Ahmed, Lexis rep
moorgatelibrary
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