Law

Useful links

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects, and dissertations in Law.

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Getting Started: Researching and Referencing

OSCOLA Referencing (LAW ONLY)

APA 7 Referencing (LAW WITH BUS, CRIM, OR IR)

Introductory Library Videos

Databases

Inlcudes HeinOnline, LexisNexis, vLex Justis, and Westlaw.

Reliable Legal Resources

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• Books

Including Law Trove access

• Case Law

Body of law arising from judges' opinions in court cases.

• Hansard

Records of court proceedings (including decisions made by judges and arguments from solicitors).

• Journals

• Legislation

A law or a set of laws that have been passed by Parliament.

• Magistrates' Courts Decisions

Deals with minor offences and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones.

• Newspapers

• Published Government Documents

Includes parliamentary reports, hansard, law commission reports, and committee reports.

• Statistics

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• Office for National Statistics

The UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics. Responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional, and local levels.

• British Crime Survey Datasets

• Crime Survey for England and Wales

• UK National Statistics: Publication Hub

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Official statistics from the UK Government.

• Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australia’s national statistical agency. An official source of independent, reliable information.

• Data.Gov

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data.

• Bureau of Justice Statistics

The United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. The mission of BJS is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.

• Central Statistics Office

Ireland's national statistical office and our purpose is to impartially collect, analyse and make available statistics about Ireland’s people, society and economy.

• Statistics Canada

The agency ensures Canadians have the key information on Canada's economy, society and environment that they require to function effectively as citizens and decision makers.