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Legal MethodFinding information for the Land
Law Coursework Research Exercise
Sarah Crofts,
Law & Criminology Librarian
January 2015
By the end of this session you will be able to:
Select appropriate databases for Land Law,
Formulate a search for cases and journal articles for a specific topic,
Attempt the Lexis Certification and/or Westlaw Training Tutorial,
Access the library subject guides for remote login guides.
New features: LibrarySearch and Subject Guides
Subject Guides: Law
Access from:
the Portal or
Direct link: http://libguides.gre.ac.uk/law
Training tab for links to certification pages for:
Lexis
Westlaw
JustCite
Resources tab for guides to access to e-resources from off-campus and from laptops
LIBRARY SEARCH & EBOOKS
Library Search: Using MyiLibrary ebooks Off Campus If you are off campus or using your own laptop
you need to authenticate yourself in order to open ebooks in MyiLibrary.
From the A-Z list of e-resources in the portal, select EBSCOhost Research Databases,
Keep the window open in your web browser and go back to the A-Z list of e-resources to select MyiLibrary,
This will enable MyiLibrary to pick up your authenticated status.
LibrarySearch home page
LibrarySearch Advanced Search
Contains
Is (exact)
Starts with
eBooks
Dawsonera and MyiLibrary both include a small number of recent Land Law eBooks, e.g.
Megarry and Wade, The law of real property
Thompson, Modern land law, 5th ed.
Find these using the ebook platforms or LibrarySearch
LibrarySearch
LibrarySearch does NOT give access to:
Cases and legislation
Articles in legal journals on Lexis and Westlaw (but it may take you to the journal, but not the article)
Datasets, e.g. Company accounts, Macroeconomic data, Marketing data
DATABASES
E-Library: Library Databases
Access – See the Subject Guide links
Resources tab for guides to access to e-resources from off-campus and from laptops
Access from:
the Portal or
Direct link: http://libguides.gre.ac.uk/law
JUSTCITE
JustCite Searches
Cases:
Tulk v Moxhay (1848) 2 Ph 774
Thamesmead Town v Allotey [1998] 3 EGLR 97
Statutes (add s. number for specific section)
Law of Property Act 1925 s. 78
LEXIS LIBRARY
Lexis: Quick Find
Find a legal term: Positive covenant
Find a source: New Law Journal
Lexis: General
Covenants relating to land
Lexis: Cases (Add topics)
Select: Real
Property Law -
Covenants
Lexis: Cases Search terms
Lexis: Journals
Lexis Commentary: including Halsbury’s Laws of England
Select: Commentary, Halsbury’s
Laws of England
Halsbury’s Laws of England
www.lexisnexis.co.uk/HalsburysLaw/halsburys_laws_about.html
This is our print copy
(4th ed.). It is not
updated so use the
online version on Lexis
in preference (5th ed.)
Searching in Lexis: Choose key terms
These could be a phrase such as:
“express grant”
“recreational right”,
“prescriptive right”,
“right(s) annexed to land”
“restrictive covenant”
“exclusive possession” Lexis always searches words as a phrase, unless you instruct
otherwise and will return results with words in that order.
Or individual words, such as “prescription” “licence”
Searching in Lexis: Using Connectors
Connectors:
AND to find both terms anywhere in the document, e.g. “restrictive AND covenant”,
OR to find either of two terms, e.g. “land ORproperty”
Proximity connectors:
w/s to find both terms within the same sentence, e.g. “Registered W/S land”
w/p to find both terms within the same paragraph, e.g. “Registered W/P land”
WESTLAW
Westlaw
Westlaw: Insight
Westlaw Insight article
Westlaw Cases search
Westlaw Cases: Advanced Search
Westlaw: Journals
Westlaw Search tips:
Case search enter the names of the parties without the “v”,
e.g. Tulk Moxhay
To search for words as a phrase in Westlaw, you need “quote marks”
E.g. “Family home”, “positive covenants”
Alternative endings – use !,
e.g. Covenant!
Too many results?
Try narrowing your search down or “Search Within”.
Westlaw: Refining your search
Connectors (as for Lexis):
AND to find both terms anywhere in the document,
e.g. “Service charges” AND covenants
OR to find either of two terms,
e.g. bankruptcy OR insolvency
Proximity connectors (different from Lexis): /s to find both terms within the same sentence, e.g.
“Service charges” /s covenants
/p to find both terms within the same paragraph
“Services charges” /p covenants
Westlaw: Books
Lexis or Westlaw Certificates
In case the certificates from Lexis or Westlaw do not arrive in time, please do a screen shot of the screen confirming that you have been successful and include this at the END of your research assignment.
A useful tool in Microsoft is the Snipping Tool which you can find in the Start Menu.
New! Cite them right
Online version of the book available in the library.
Help with referencing – includes OSCOLA.
Will be on A-Z list soon, until then, access on campus from this link:
http://www.citethemrightonline.com/
Thank you
Law and Criminology/Criminal Justice Senior Academic Services Librarian: Sarah Crofts
Law Subject Guide: http://libguides.gre.ac.uk/law
Email: [email protected], x9078
Information & Library Service Blog: http://uoglibrary.blogspot.com
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