Legal research essentials

Legal research essentials is a free ebook that demonstrates the basics of legal research, including secondary sources, case law, legislation, referencing, and avoiding plagiarism.

Contents include: 

• Research skills: Learn about legal research and the importance of researching in a strategic way, common types of assignments that require legal research, academic misconduct, and plagiarism.
• Secondary sources: Discover the role secondary sources play and the databases and search strategies you will need to use to locate them.
• Case law: Learn how to locate cases by citation or by topic, how to judge their reliability, and how to cite them in your assignments.
• Legislation: Find out more about the parliamentary process, how to find legislation and also the materials used for statutory interpretation.

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