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Quick Tip #1 – Westlaw searches
Quick Tip: –
If you are struggling to find information on Westlaw because your search is turning up too many results, try using the Westlaw subject hierarchy. This allows you to search journal articles, cases, legislation etc using the subjects which the document has been tagged with. It’s a considerably more exact way of searching than, for example, a keyword search.
It’s also very simple to use:
Posted on November 29, 2016 by coralieneavecoleshawPosted in Conducting Research, Quick Tips, Useful WebsitesTagged research, sources, websites. Leave a comment
Using Parliament.uk
As promised, another post on Parliamentary sources – this time, a quick guide to using the official website of Parliament.
You will find most of the Parliamentary material you need hosted on the Parliament website. This post will focus on how to use the website, and therefore assumes a basic knowledge of different Parliamentary bodies and procedures. (You can see the Parliamentary dictionary if some terms are unfamiliar.)
Parliamentary business is most often found in Hansard, the official record of Parliament. This can be accessed through the homepage, or by using this link. From here there are a number of options. Some of those most likely to be useful are explored below:
This can be accessed by clicking the link on the main page:
There are then a number of searches which can be performed. It is possible to do a general search within Hansard for a specific term – for example “benefit sanctions” – which will bring up a list of all items where this term is found:
The drop-down menus on the main page also bring up a number of ways to search which may or may not be useful to your research. For example, “Browse MPs/Peers” allows you to search for contributions from specific people:
Again, this can be accessed by clicking the link on the main page:
This will then bring up a search box which offers various options for searching. Most of these are self explanatory:
It is also possible to search written statements, and the daily reports by date:
The Hansard pages discussed above only contain content for 2010 onwards. For pre-2010 content you will need to use the archives for the Lords and Commons.
From the Parliament homepage, it is also possible to access a wide range of further documents and information. The easiest way to find these is simply to explore the website. If you are unfamiliar with Parliament, the ‘About Parliament’ section of the website may be a useful place to start:
You will also need to be familiar with the ‘Parliamentary business’ section:
Parliament is not always the most obvious resource to use in legal research, but it can often be a rich source of information for a number of different resources. For example, debates and Committee scrutiny of Bills may provide useful information on Legislation you are discussing in your research; Committee inquiries, debates and Early Day Motions can often provide analysis and examples of a law in operation; written answers are a good source for statistical data on specific subjects. It may be worth searching the Parliamentary website during your research to help provide secondary material and analysis.
Posted on November 5, 2016 November 5, 2016 by coralieneavecoleshawPosted in Useful WebsitesTagged parliament, sources, websites. 1 Comment
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Using HUDOC – a basic guide to searching for judgments from the European Court of Human Rights
HUDOC is the database of judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). If you know the name of the case you wish to read, it is often quickest simply to run a Google search – you will often have to use “[case name] HUDOC” in order to get a result from HUDOC and not from other sources – but there are also a number of useful ways of searching HUDOC if you are beginning research or searching for new cases.
How wide you wish your search to be, how many sources there are, and any constraints on your search will often determine the best way to approach the resource. On the HUDOC home page are a number of different filters to begin searching, and it would be impractical to go through them all. The best way of learning to search HUDOC is simply to play around with it. But there are some basics which will make your research in HUDOC much easier.
Judgments from the ECtHR are available in a variety of languages, predominantly English and French. Being monolingual, I always begin any search by selecting the English language filter – cases not available in English are, unfortunately, not going to help my research:
More than one language filter can be selected. Each time a filter is selected the list of cases will update itself automatically.
As with language, it is also possible to filter by the Article of the European Convention that you are interested in:
Clicking on ‘More’ will bring up all of the possible filters:
For example, here is the list of cases where “English” and all of the “Article 4” filters are selected:
There are a number of other filters under the left hand sidebar “Narrow Your Search”. These include by the court giving the judgment, by whether there was a violation found or not and by the country defending the case. All of these may be more or less important depending on the nature of your research. Language and Article are likely be the two filters you most frequently use, however.
“Sort by”
In the top right hand corner is a drop down menu for how cases are sorted:
Relevance is likely to be the most useful search for general research, but other options may be helpful. For example, if you know that domestic law fundamentally changed after a certain date, cases brought under the old law may not be relevant, so Sort by: -> Date (newest) might be a more helpful option.
Clicking the “Advanced Search” link in the top right hand corner brings up a number of further options to use alongside, or instead of, the filters:
There are small grey question marks next to each field, and hovering over these will bring up further information on what each field searches for. It’s worth becoming familiar with this before beginning research, as this is likely to provide the most focussed searches.
For any questions on how to use HUDOC, the best place to start is with their FAQs. But a knowledge of basic filters and searches should be enough to find relevant ECtHR judgments within HUDOC for your research.
Posted on October 13, 2016 October 29, 2016 by coralieneavecoleshawPosted in Useful WebsitesTagged HUDOC, human rights, research, websites. Leave a comment