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Law Resources in the Library

Terry McDonald

Subject Librarian for

Law

[email protected]

01-896 2733

Level 3 – Ussher Library

Michaelmas Term 2016

Trinity College Library Dublin, College Street, Dublin 2

Guiseppe Archimboldo –The Librarian, c.1592

Trinity College Library Dublin

Tony CareyIveagh HallBerkeley Library


Using the Library catalogue to find –

• Books

• Journal articles

• Cases

Using Databases & Websites to find -

• Cases

• Legislation

• Journal Articles

Keeping up to date



The Law collection is located at -

The Morrison Room, Level 1, Berkeley Library


Level 1, Berkeley Library



FINDING A BOOK



Brian M.E. McMahon,

William Binchy

Law of torts

4th ed.

London : Bloomsbury, 2013



You may borrow –

Up to 10 books (up to 4 LEN books)

4 books from Counter Reserve

for up to five hours

for use in the Library only

2 DVD’s (for up to 2 days)

You may consult, but not borrow all other material


Borrowing Books

Fastlane Self-Service: use to borrow, renew and return Open Access books

Service Counters: use to borrow, renew and return books, including Counter Reserve items. Closed Access items are also issued here.

Fines

Standard Fines

Students are charged fines for overdue items to

encourage their return on time.

Standard loans €0.50 per item, per day - this

increases to €1 per day after two weeks

Counter Reserve (Short Loan) Collection items

€0.25 per item, per hour

My Library Account

REQUESTING ITEMS FROM STORAGE

Reserving items

Reserving an item that

is checked out to

another reader


FINDING A JOURNAL ARTICLE



Finding Journals by title –

JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW & PRACTICE

Law Resources in the Librar



Finding a journal article -

John T. O’Dowd, “Ireland’s new defamation act”,

Journal of media law,

Dec 2009, Vol.1(2), p173-190




Cliodhna Murphy, “Immigration and family life : reunification in Irish law”,

DULJ, 2011, 34, 221-241



DULJ ???

GOOGLE

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations -








If the article title is not in the STELLA SEARCH …

… then search for the journal title in JOURNAL TITLES SEARCH



Databases & Websites for journal articles

WESTLAW

LEGALTRAC

HEIN ONLINE

LEXIS

www.legalperiodicals.org



FINDING

CASES


USING STELLA TO FIND CASES


Finding a case –

CC v Ireland

[2006] 4 IR 1



Title of case

CC v Ireland

[2006] 4 IR 1

Year case Vol. Page no.

Reported no.Name of report


Library Resources in the Library

CC v Ireland [2006] 4 IR 1

IR ?? Back to Cardiff -





Using databases to find cases-

JUSTIS

or

WESTLAW



Finding cases in JUSTIS


Finding cases -

Either -

Find out where the case was published (use Cardiff Index) and look it up in the STELLA SEARCH

Or

FIND WestlawUK / WestlawIE / Justisin STELLA SEARCH and look for the case there



DATABASES- use them to find

-Cases

-Legislation

- Journal articlesALWAYS ACCESS DATABASES THROUGH THE LIBRARY WEBPAGE



Best databases to find cases-

JUSTIS / JUSTCITE

WESTLAW,

LexisNexis Legal

Hein Online (US Law)

BAILII / IRLII

COURTS.IE



Best websites to find cases-

BAILII / IRLII

COURTS.IE

HUDOC – ECHR

LAW.JUSTIA.COM – US law



Best databases to find legislation-

JUSTIS (UK)

WESTLAW (UK and Ireland,

Westlaw International)

IRISHSTATUTEBOOK.IE, OIREACHTAS.IE

BAILII


Legislation - websites

• World Legal Information Institute –worldlii.org

• Houses of the Oireachtas – oireachtas.ie

• Irish Statute Book – irishstatutebook.ie

• EU Law – eur-lex.europa.eu

• UK Legislation – legislation.gov.uk

• US Federal Legislative Information -congress.gov


Best databases to find journal articles -

WESTLAW

LEGALTRAC

HEIN ONLINE

LEXIS


Citing –

OSCOLA – Oxford University Standard for Citation Of Legal Articles

Ireland - www.legalcitation.ie

EndNote classes - November



Keeping Up to Date –• Law Society Gazette

• Dublin Solicitors Bar Association –Parchments - www.dsba.ie

• Westlaw & WestlawIE Current Awareness

• LexisNexis Legal Current Awareness

• Bar Review (print only)

• Irish Jurist

• www.thelawyer.com


Documents

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