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a| Cottrell, Jill.
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a| Legal research :
b| a guide for Hong Kong students /
c| Jill Cottrell.
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a| Hong Kong :
b| Hong Kong University Press,
c| 1997.
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a| xii, 309 p. :
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c| 28 cm.
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a| HKU Press law series.
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a| "This book is designed especially for usage in Hong Kong to teach the basic skills of finding legal materials, both printed and computer-based ones. Its objective is to help students explore the range of materials which they will use in the course of their legal education, and thereafter in the practice of law. To illuminate the study of law, research involving non-legal materials is also provided. Law students at university will find this book an indispensable guide to legal research, and so will thousands of Hong Kong residents who study law as part-time courses. Practitioners, especially those in the early stages of their careers, or those unfamiliar with Hong Kong materials because they have come from another jurisdiction, will also find this book useful. Even the established members of the profession who are not too familiar with CD-ROM and On-line databases will also benefit."--Back cover.
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t| PREFACE
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l| UNIT 1
t| WELCOME TO THE STUDY OF LAW
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t| Supplementary material
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t| Windows
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t| THIS BOOK: ITS ORGANIZATION, PURPOSES AND ASSUMPTIONS
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t| Objectives
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t| The philosophy of the book
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t| Organization of the book
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t| Treatment of electronic sources
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t| 1997
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t| The law libraries in Hong Kong
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t| Symbols and conventions
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t| LEGAL RESEARCH: PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS
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t| Objectives
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t| Essays and problems
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t| Research
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t| Self-test questions
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t| Supplementary material
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t| A good legal researcher
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t| CASES: AN INTRODUCTION
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t| Objectives
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t| The idea of a ̀case'
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t| Reading a case
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t| Further reading
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t| Why?
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t| Anatomy of an unreported case
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t| Explanatory notes
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t| Anatomy of a reported case
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t| A note on headnotes
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t| Criminal cases
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t| Hong Kong before 1997
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t| A possible note on Check Chor-ching
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t| Abbreviations for Judges
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t| Ratios and dicta
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t| LAW REPORTS
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t| Objectives
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t| Law reports: the development of an institution
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t| Why should you bother about yearbooks?
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t| Nominate reports
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t| Beginning of the modern era
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t| The All England Law Reports
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t| Reporting
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t| Law reports: what you are likely to find in a law library
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t| Finding the nominate reports
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t| The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting reports
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t| Other major series
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t| Modern specialist reports
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t| Hong Kong reported cases
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t| General reports
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t| Specialist reports
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t| Short reports of Hong Kong cases
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t| Cases in Mainland China
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t| Self-test questions
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t| Supplementary material
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t| The doctrine of precedent
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t| Parts of a volume of law reports
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t| FINDING CASES (I)
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t| Objectives
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t| Finding reported cases when you have a complete reference
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t| Some tips
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t| Finding the reprinted nominate reports
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t| Unreported judgments
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t| Electronic access to unreported judgments
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t| Self-study questions
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t| Supplementary material
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t| Shapes of brackets
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t| Organizing the unreported judgments
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t| FINDING CASES (II)
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t| Objectives
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t| Finding a reference to a case when you know the name
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t| For Hong Kong cases
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t| For English cases
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t| Using electronic sources
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t| Tracing the history of a case after it is first decided
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t| Finding a case on a particular topic
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t| Finding Hong Kong unreported judgments by subject
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t| Hong Kong cases on CD-ROM
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t| Hong Kong Law Reports and Digest
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t| English law reports
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t| The Electronic law reports
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t| The Weekly Law Reports
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t| All England Law Reports
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t| The English Reports
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t| Self-study questions
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t| Supplementary material
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t| In summary: finding a case knowing only its name (paper resources only)
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t| INTRODUCTION TO LEGISLATION
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t| Objectives
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t| Legislation
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t| Who makes legislation?
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t| What do you read a statute for?
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t| What do you do with legislation?
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t| The anatomy of an ordinance
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t| Bills
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t| Delegated legislation
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t| Self-study questions
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t| Supplementary material
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t| Life cycle of an ordinance
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t| Amending UK and Hong Kong statutes
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t| READING A STATUTE
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t| Objectives
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t| Control of Exemption Clauses Ordinance
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t| Ways of dealing with statutes
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t| Breaking up sections
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t| Algorithms
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t| Dictionaries of legal definitions
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t| Background to Hong Kong legislation
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t| Background to UK legislation
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t| Self-study questions
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t| Supplementary material
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t| Interpretation of statutes
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t| FINDING LEGISLATION AND RELATED MATTERS
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t| Objectives
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t| Hong Kong legislation
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t| Gazette
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t| The Loose-leaf Edition
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t| The Revised Edition
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t| The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong
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t| Using the Annotated Ordinances
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t| How to update Hong Kong legislation
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t| Step by step for updating using paper material
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t| Is it in force?
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t| The relationship between Hong Kong and foreign law
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t| Statutes judicially considered
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t| BLIS
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t| United Kingdom legislation
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t| Form of reference to UK legislation
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t| Finding an English statute
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t| Is it in force?
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t| Judicial consideration
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t| Other useful things
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t| Delegated legislation
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t| Transitional issues
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t| National laws applying in Hong Kong
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t| Self-study questions
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t| Supplementary material
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t| Finding the statutory position at a point in the past
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t| UK legislation applying in Hong Kong
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t| APPROACHING RESEARCH
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t| Objectives
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t| Unpacking your subject
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t| What branch of the law?
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t| Which jurisdiction?
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t| Words, words, words!
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t| Different types of books
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t| Student texts
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t| Specialist books
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t| Monographs
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t| Books on comparative law
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t| Practitioners' books
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t| Loose-leaf texts
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t| Encyclopaedias
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t| Updating
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t| Types of electronic resources
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t| Content
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t| Relationship with print media
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t| Electronic format
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t| Updating
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t| Who maintains them?
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t| Cost of use
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t| Framing searches
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t| Undigested or pre-digested?
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t| Search tools
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t| Summary
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t| Supplementary material
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t| A word on indexes
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t| GENERAL WORKS OF REFERENCE
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t| Objectives
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t| Hong Kong
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t| Hong Kong Law Digest
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t| Current Law Hong Kong
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t| Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong
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t| England
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t| Current Law
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t| Halsbury's Laws of England
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t| The Digest
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t| Self-study questions
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t| JOURNALS
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t| Objectives
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t| Varieties of journals
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t| Hong Kong based journals
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t| Other countries
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t| Regional journals
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t| Why would a law student read journals?
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t| The structure of journals
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t| How to find out what articles exist - indexes
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t| Legal journals index
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t| Index to legal periodicals
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t| Index to legal periodicals and books: the CD-ROM version
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t| Index to foreign legal periodicals
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t| Index to periodical articles related to law
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t| Self-study questions
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t| Supplementary material
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t| Brackets for journals
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t| Journals and articles
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t| Electronic journals
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t| GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
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t| Objectives
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t| Publications of the Hong Kong Government
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t| Hong Kong Government Gazette
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t| Codes of Practice
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t| Hansard
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t| Proceedings of the Urban and Regional Councils
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t| Committees of Legco
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t| White Papers
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t| Consultative documents
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t| Law Reform Commission
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t| Commissions of Inquiry
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t| Departmental reports
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t| Other publications
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t| Publications of other governments
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t| Self-study questions
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t| OTHER LAW-RELATED MATERIALS
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t| Objectives
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t| Other legal reference materials
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t| Tariffs
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t| Precedents
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t| Practitioner's texts
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t| Annotated codes of procedure
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t| The legal profession
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t| Other publications
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t| Law Society circulars
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t| Bibliographies
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t| Self-study questions
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t| OTHER SYSTEMS
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t| Objectives
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t| Why look at other countries?
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t| Systems of law
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t| Common law systems
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t| Civil law systems
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t| Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei
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t| Malaysia
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t| Singapore
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t| Brunei
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t| The legal literature of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei
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t| Australia
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t| Introduction
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t| Why would you want to look at Australian law
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t| Australian law reports
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t| Research material on Australian law
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t| How to find cases in Australian law reports
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t| Electronic sources for Australian law
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t| Laws of Australia: CD-ROM version - a guide to making simple searches
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t| Journals
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t| Law reform
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t| Further reading
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t| New Zealand
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t| Law reports
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t| Statutes
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t| Journals
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t| Reference material
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t| India
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t| Law reports
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t| Journals
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t| Reference material
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t| Canada
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t| Why would you want to look at Canadian law?
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t| Law reports
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t| Research tools
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t| Keeping up-to-date
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t| Canadian cases on the Internet
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t| Legislation
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t| Canadian periodicals
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t| Index to Canadian legal literature
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t| Further reading
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t| The United States of America
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t| Introduction
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t| Law reports
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t| Statutes
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t| Reference works
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t| Restatement of law
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t| US law on the Internet
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t| Self-test questions
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t| ǸON-LAW' MATERIALS
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t| Objectives
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t| Books
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t| Bibliographies
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t| Historical documents
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t| Journals
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t| Indexes and abstracts
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t| Self-study questions
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t| ELECTRONIC SOURCES
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t| Objectives
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t| An introduction to BLIS (Bilingual Laws Information Service)
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t| Version dates
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t| Printing
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t| Law on the web
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t| Getting started
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t| What will you find on the web?
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t| Searching the Net
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t| Moving around
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t| Keeping what you find
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t| How useful is the Internet?
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t| LEXIS
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t| The steps for an elementary LEXIS search and a few more sophisticated ideas
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t| Further reading
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t| Supplementary material
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t| A few terms: Internet, World Wide Web, Netscape, url
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t| HOW TO CITE, QUOTE AND PRESENT YOUR MATERIAL
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t| Objectives
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t| Footnote reference
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t| Referring to pages
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t| Referring to cases
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t| Legislation
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t| Official publications
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t| Legislative proceedings
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t| Abbreviations
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t| For records from the Internet
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t| Further reading
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t| Quoting
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t| Self-test questions
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t| Supplementary material
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t| Plagiarism
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t| Italics or underlining?
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t| APPENDIX II A DICTIONARY
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t| APPENDIX III ABBREVIATIONS
p| 305
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t| APPENDIX IV CASE REFERENCE NUMBERS IN HONG KONG
p| 307
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a| book
b| 05-10-07
c| m
d| a
e| -
f| eng
g| cc
h| 0
i| 0
945
h| Principal
l| location
i| barcode
y| id
f| bookplate
a| callnoa
b| callnob
n| LAW100
945
h| Principal
l| location
i| barcode
y| id
f| bookplate
a| callnoa
b| callnob
n| LAW100
945
h| Principal
l| location
i| barcode
y| id
f| bookplate
a| callnoa
b| callnob
n| LAW100
945
h| Principal
l| location
i| barcode
y| id
f| bookplate
a| callnoa
b| callnob
n| LAW100