Cottrell, Jill. <br/><br/>
Legal research :  a guide for Hong Kong students. 

 - Hong Kong ;  Hong Kong University Press :  1997. 
 - xii, 309 p. :  28 cm. 
<br/><br/> Contents<br/>UNIT 1 WELCOME TO THE STUDY OF LAW<br/>UNIT 2 THIS BOOK ITS ORGANIZATION PURPOSES AND ASSUMPTIONS<br/>UNIT 3 LEGAL RESEARCH PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS<br/>UNIT 4 CASES AN INTRODUCTION<br/>UNIT 5 LAW REPORTS<br/>UNIT 6 FINDING CASES<br/>UNIT 7 FINDING CASES<br/>UNIT 8 INTRODUCTION TO LEGISLATION<br/>UNIT 9 READING A STATTE<br/>UNIT 10 FINDING LEGISLATION AND RELATED MATTERS<br/>UNIT 11 APPROACHING RESEARCH<br/>UNIT 12 GENERAL WORKS OF REFERENCE<br/>UNIT 13 JOURNALS<br/>UNIT 14 GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS<br/>UNIT 15 OTHER LAW-RELATED MATERIALS<br/>UNIT 16 OTHER SYSTEMS<br/>UNIT 17 NON-LAW MATERIALS<br/>UNIT 18 ELECTRONIC SOURCES<br/>UNIT 19 HOW TO CITE QUOTE AND PRESENT YOUR MATERIAL 
<br/><br/> This book is designed especially for use 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.<br/>Jill Cottrell studied law at the London School of Economics and Yale Law School. She has been Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Hong Kong since 1990, and has there been involved in the course on Legal Research and Writing, as well as substantive law courses. Her earlier career involved teaching law at two universities in Nigeria followed by fourteen years at the Law School of the University of Warwick in England. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789622094307 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Legal Research
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>340.07 COT 1997