i-law is a service from Informa specialising in maritime and insurance law. Key resources include the LMCLQ (back to 2000) and Lloyds Law Reports. *Please note you have to enter your own email address to access for the first time*
The British Library's Electronic Thesis Online Service offers a single point of access for theses produced by UK Higher Education. Some universities offer free open access to download their digital thesis, but others may require a fee from the researcher.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. It offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
Westlaw is a huge database containing cases, legislation and journal articles. Searching for cases within Westlaw is a joy, particularly thanks to the Case Analysis function. This cool tool almost does your research for you, listing lots of extra stuff about a case; its history, where its been cited subsequently and, best of all, all the journal articles which talk about your case.
Law report series included in Westlaw include the Weekly Law Reports (WLR), The Law Reports (AC, QB, Ch etc), Fleet Street Reports (FSR), Common Market Law Reports (CMLR) and Housing Law Reports amongst others.
The journal collection is admirable; including the Conveyancer (Conv), Criminal Law Review (Crim L.R.), European Law Review (E.L.Rev), Law Quarterly Review (LQR), Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (OJLS) and Public Law (P.L.) as well as loads more...
Lexis is an immense database with access to cases, legislation
and journal articles. Practitioner texts are also available,
including Blackstones Criminal Practice, Lester & Pannick:
Human Rights Law and Practice, Paget's Law of Banking, Whish:
Competition Law amongst 149 others.
You can also access really monster Lexis publications - Halsbury's Laws (the legal encyclopedia) and Halsbury's Statutes amongst them.
Law report-wise you can find many key series in LNB: All England Law Reports (All ER), The Law Reports (AC, QB, Ch etc), Times Law Reports (TLR) amongst others.
Access using your library barcode and PIN.
HeinOnline is an American database which offers access to a huge number of journals. Unlike Lexis or Westlaw it generally offers full coverage of journal titles, ie. from volume 1, issue 1.
It offers a wide selection of American Journals with extensive coverage, eg. Harvard Law Review (1887-), Yale Law Journal (1891-).
Its collection of English journals is growing and key ones to remember are as follows: Cambridge Law Journal (1921-), Industrial Law Journal (1972-1997), International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1952-), Law Quarterly Review (1885-), Legal Studies (1981-)
Access using your library barcode and PIN.
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From 23rd August, you'll no longer need to type in your library barcode number and PIN to access databases like Lexis and Westlaw.
Access will operate much more smoothly by entering your existing IT username and password (the ones you use to get onto a computer/your email).
Training, Events and Resources Internship available!
Seeking an individual for an internship of 2 to 3 days a week, for at least 3 months.
See flyer for full details of post.
This internship is ideal for students or those interested in
pursuing a legal career to gain insight into the legal aid
field.
Please send a CV and covering letter, explaining why you think your skills match those advertised.
Deadline: Thursday 2nd September, before 6pm
The City Law School has sealed a new partnership with the Environmental Law Foundation (E.L.F), a UK charity that aims to help protect and improve local environments and quality of life.
Our law students are set to reap the benefits of the tie-up, which will allow them to work closely with full-time E.L.F lawyers and volunteers on a range of projects including climate change, planning enquiries, judicial review, policy development and pollution.
A number of City law students will also benefit from summer internships during which they will work on various E.L.F programmes for two days a week.
Read the full story.
The Bar Council has launched its annual Law Reform Essay Competition for law students and pupils. There is £4000 available for the winner, £2500 for the runner-up, as well as prizes for the best GDL/CPE entry.
Closing date is 15th October 2010 5.00pm.
To enter, you need to identify and makes the case for a law reform that is desirable, practical and useful. Find out more and submit your entry form here.
Anita Davies has won first prize in The Times annual essay competition. Anita who is currently on the GDL at The City Law School, wrote the winning essay on 'Supreme Court UK: radical change or business as usual?'. Jack Straw, one of the judging panel describing the winning entry, said that it was "an engaging, erudite piece of prose".
"It reasons that while the Supreme Court does not itself constitute radical change, it could prompt the traditionally pragmatic British to engage in a mature and open debate about the constitution - something that has not always been credited to the nation's representatives in the House of Commons.
"As the essay puts it, the court is a sign that 'constitutionally, Britain may be growing up'."
Third place went to Ian MacFarlane, who is currently studying his BVC at The City Law School, and the commendation place to Jack Pailing, a graduate from the GDL at CLS.
Read the full story and read the essays on Times Online here.
Dominic Regan, Visiting Professor in The City Law School chaired the biggest Webinar in legal history, in conjunction with the New Law Journal earlier this month.
The discussion took place following British Judge Sir Rupert
Jackson's proposals to reduce costs of litigation, and was streamed
live on the NLJ website.
Regan, a leading authority on civil procedure and costs, was joined
by His Honour Michael Cook; David Greene, NLJ consultant Editor and
President of the London Solicitors Litigation Association, Edwin
Coe; Bob Musgrove, Chief Executive of the Civil Justice Council;
Nick Bevan, Senior Counsel, Bond Pearce and Simon Butler, Ely Place
Chambers.
The panellists gave immediate analysis of the Jackson report as
well as their predictions of the report's potential impact on the
legal profession.
The webinar was so popular that large numbers of visitors to the
site caused it to crash. It can now be viewed online.
See the full text of Lord Justice Jackson's review on Civil
Litigation Costs via the Judiciary website.
Students from The City Law School attended a record breaking training session for the National Centre for Domestic Violence (NCDV).
The City Law School hosted the largest single student training session earlier this month, for the National Centre for Domestic Violence (NCDV). In total, 117 students were present, beating the previous attendance record of 99, set recently at the College of Law.
The group included students from City's GDL, LPC and LLB courses, as well as colleagues from the College of Law and elsewhere in the country. All the participants spent a weekend being trained to be 'McKenzie Friends', who work in an advisory role with unrepresented victims of domestic abuse.
After two days of training the students, improved their legal clinical skills, they all qualified for volunteering work. Some of the attendees will be assessed on their work as McKenzie Friends in the future in a unique elective in the BVC.
See the full story here.
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