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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4 Mar: Debating Society meeting 10 Mar: Wednesday DJ Night |
Claudia Renton, Tim Johnston, Ciara Fairley and Anita Davies are all though - well done!
Final will be held on Wed 28th April
Maya Thacker, our LexisNexis student associate has had a fun year being City's rep. Do you fancy having a go?
Closing date for applications is 9th April and interviews will be held May/June. Applications need to be emailed and students who apply must be available to attend one of two training courses in London from either 9th-11th August or 16th-18th August.
Applications are welcome from current City law students who will be studying at City again next year on any law course.
See the flyer here.
LexisNexis are offering yet another free trial of LexisCheck
until 12 March
2010. So for those of you who have not downloaded your free trial
yet, all the information you need is at www.lexischecklife.co.uk.
And they also have a price deal until the end of March which means
the cost of an annual subscription will be about the same as a
single textbook.
What's more, anyone trialling LexisCheck can enter a new
competition to WIN A YEAR'S FREE RENT!!
Posters will be up in the law library and leaflets can be collected
at the
law office.
If you have any questions about LexisCheck please ask Maya, your LexisNexis student associate.
Simon Singh MBE is calling for a reform of libel laws in the UK after spending £100,000 defending his writing (Singh is a writer specialising in his coverage of scientific/mathematical topics).
Singh was sued for libel by The British Chiropractic Association after he wrote an article in The Guardian raising doubts about the success of some of their treatments. His appeal takes place Tuesday 23rd Feb at The Court of Appeal.
Hear BBC Radio 4 programme Science on Trial about the issue, and here's a quick rundown of the facts of case. The Lawyer named this as one of the Top 10 cases to watch in 2010.
If you want to support Simon, sign the
online petition.
1000 word essay addressing:
How might a legal education enable students to contribute to the improvement of society?
Closing date for applications: 12 March 2010
See full details here.
Take part in the annual LexisNexis law student survey to be in with a chance of winning the £1000 Virgin Voucher top prize.
Only takes 10-15 mins of your time. Deadline 19th March.
CPDcast.com offers City students free access to all its podcast content. Register on the site with your City email address and you get tons of cutting edge law content from experienced practitioners. Great for understanding new decisions or recent legislation.
See the latest content here.
GELLB2's, GDL's and LLB3's can apply for an internship at JUSTICE - you need to commit to a 4 day week for a month - 6 weeks over the summer. See full details 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.
Teams for this year's prestigious City Law School-Blackstone Mooting Competition have been announced! The Moot takes place annually towards the end of January and attracts a large number of high calibre candidates from amongst those undertaking the Bar Vocational Course at The City Law School. The Moot is sponsored by Blackstone's Chambers.
The City Law School supports students' participation in external mooting competitions where we have an excellent record of success. National and international mooting competitions are run annually, with often large cash prizes. Further details of mooting opportunities at The City Law School are outlined here or for students at City University, here.
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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