Family Law: Finding information

for your coursework

Sarah Crofts

Senior Academic Services Librarian

Law and Criminology

20th February 2015

By the end of this session you will

be able to:

Access resources from off campus,

Use LibrarySearch to find resources for your

topic,

Select relevant databases for the topic,

Find cases and journal articles for your

project.

E-Library: Library Databases

Off-campus access to databases

For off-campus access to JustCite, Jordans

and others, please see the Access guide at: http://www.gre.ac.uk/offices/ils/ls/guides/librarysearch

Linked from the Portal:

And don’t forget eBooks

Dawsonera and MyiLibrary both include

recent Family Law eBooks, e.g.

Routledge Handbook of family law and policy,

2014

Herring, Family Law, 6th ed., 2013,* (7th edition

due end of April)

Search hints…Advanced Search generally

produces more focussed results in

Dawsonera.

Dawsonera: Advanced Search

JustCite Searches

Cases:

Re G (Children) [2006] UKHL 43

Carr (M) v Carr (AK) [1974] 1 W.L.R. 1534

Legislation (add section number if required):

Family Law Act 1996

Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 s1

Journals: JustCite only links to a very few

titles – you still need to search the individual

databases.

Jordans Family Law Online:

Coverage

Family Law,

Family Law Reports,

Child & Family Law Quarterly,

International Family Law Journal,

Legislation and Forms.

The subscription does not include

International Children Law Focus, Books

Online and Private Client.

Jordans Home Page

Jordans Family Law Online

Jordan’s Family Law - searching

Case Search: searches within the Family

Law Reports

Casename: M v C and Calderdale [1993] 1 FLR

505

Citation: [2006] EWCA Civ 551

Assisted Search: searches within all

subscribed content

This exact phrase: legal parent

LibrarySearch

For Guides and Help:

Advanced Search:

Lexis: Quick Find

Find a source: Family Law

Find a legal term: Parent

Lexis Library Practice Areas

Family Law Practice Area

Lexis: Cases

Searching in Lexis:

Choose key terms

These could be a phrase such as:

“separation order”

“care orders”,

“civil partnership proceedings”

“assisted reproduction”, Lexis always searches words as a phrase, unless you instruct

otherwise and will return results with words in that order.

Or individual words, such as “maintenance”,

parent,

Lexis Family Law blog

http://lexisweb.co.uk/blog/family/

Westlaw: Index of Legal Terms

and Insight

Westlaw Cases search

Westlaw: Journals

No specific Family Law (other

than Family Law Bulletin) titles

but general journals such as the

Cambridge Law Journal include

relevant topics.

Westlaw Search tips:

To search for words as a phrase in Westlaw,

you need “quote marks”

E.g. “separation orders”

Too many results?

Try “Search Within” or add more search terms to

narrow your search down.

Lawtel Login Screen

Lawtel Home page

Material not held by UoG library

Journal articles and Books

Some finding tools:

SearchM25: http://www.search25.ac.uk/

COPAC: http://copac.ac.uk/

Use SCONUL Access scheme to visit

libraries with items you need:

http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sconul-access

Thank you and success in your

research Senior Academic Services Librarian: Sarah Crofts

Email: cs02@gre.ac.uk, x9078

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