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Law Resources in the Library

Terry McDonald

Subject Librarian for

Law

Terry.McDonald@tcd.ie

01-896 2733

Level 3 – Ussher Library

Michaelmas Term 2016

Trinity College Library Dublin, College Street, Dublin 2

Guiseppe Archimboldo –The Librarian, c.1592

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Tony CareyIveagh HallBerkeley Library

Law Resources in the Library

Using the Library catalogue to find –

• Books

• Journal articles

• Cases

Using Databases & Websites to find -

• Cases

• Legislation

• Journal Articles

Keeping up to date

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Law Resources in the Library

The Law collection is located at -

The Morrison Room, Level 1, Berkeley Library

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Level 1, Berkeley Library

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Law Resources in the Library

FINDING A BOOK

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Brian M.E. McMahon,

William Binchy

Law of torts

4th ed.

London : Bloomsbury, 2013

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Law Resources in the Library

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

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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

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FINDING A JOURNAL ARTICLE

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Finding Journals by title –

JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW & PRACTICE

Law Resources in the Librar

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Finding a journal article -

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

Journal of media law,

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

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Finding a journal article -

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

DULJ, 2011, 34, 221-241

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DULJ ???

GOOGLE

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations -

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Law Resources in the Library

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Finding a journal article -

If the article title is not in the STELLA SEARCH …

… then search for the journal title in JOURNAL TITLES SEARCH

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Law Resources in the Library

Databases & Websites for journal articles

WESTLAW

LEGALTRAC

HEIN ONLINE

LEXIS

www.legalperiodicals.org

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Law Resources in the Library

FINDING

CASES

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USING STELLA TO FIND CASES

Law Resources in the Library

Finding a case –

CC v Ireland

[2006] 4 IR 1

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Law Resources in the Library

Title of case

CC v Ireland

[2006] 4 IR 1

Year case Vol. Page no.

Reported no.Name of report

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CC v Ireland [2006] 4 IR 1

IR ?? Back to Cardiff -

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Using databases to find cases-

JUSTIS

or

WESTLAW

Law Resources in the Library

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Finding cases in JUSTIS

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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

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Law Resources in the Library

DATABASES- use them to find

-Cases

-Legislation

- Journal articlesALWAYS ACCESS DATABASES THROUGH THE LIBRARY WEBPAGE

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Law Resources in the Library

Best databases to find cases-

JUSTIS / JUSTCITE

WESTLAW,

LexisNexis Legal

Hein Online (US Law)

BAILII / IRLII

COURTS.IE

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Law Resources in the Library

Best websites to find cases-

BAILII / IRLII

COURTS.IE

HUDOC – ECHR

LAW.JUSTIA.COM – US law

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Law Resources in the Library

Best databases to find legislation-

JUSTIS (UK)

WESTLAW (UK and Ireland,

Westlaw International)

IRISHSTATUTEBOOK.IE, OIREACHTAS.IE

BAILII

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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

Law Resources in the Library

Best databases to find journal articles -

WESTLAW

LEGALTRAC

HEIN ONLINE

LEXIS

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Citing –

OSCOLA – Oxford University Standard for Citation Of Legal Articles

Ireland - www.legalcitation.ie

EndNote classes - November

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Law Resources in the Library

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

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