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The following new titles have recently appeared in full text on Westlaw:
- Journal of Housing Law
- International Journal of the Built Environment
From now on where you see citations for these titles on Westlaw they’ll be hyperlinked in red.
Your student associates for this year are:
Kim McKenzie for Lexis
and
Tom Lathom for Westlaw
They will be available throughout the year to provide tips, advice and training sessions on using the legal databases. Look out for:
- emails
- messages on the plasma screens
- postings here on the Library Blog
- or email them direct at Kimberley.McKenzie69@lawcol.co.uk and Tom.Lathom40@lawcol.co.uk with any database queries you may have.
Sign-up sheets are now available for the Lexis & Westlaw training sessions that will be offered this Thursday and Friday (10 & 11 September).
To find them go to:
- My Centre
- “Click here for information” (button on left-hand side of screen)
- Library (in blue menu)
- Sign-up sheets
If you have any problems or questions please contact me at natasha.skeen@lawcol.co.uk
Watch this space for details of further legal research workshops.
A note to let you know that the Tuesday 12 – 2pm drop-in clinic in the library with the Westlaw Rep Michael Carter will now be moving to Wednesdays from 11am – 1pm.
Michael will be available for any assistance or queries you may need answering concerning using the Westlaw database. The Thursday 12 – 2pm clinic remains the same.
Michael Carter is the new Westlaw and Lawtel Student Representative here at the College of Law, Birmingham.
Please Email him at michael.carter04@lawcol.co.uk with:
- Any problems which you are experiencing with either database
- Any help needed with legal research tasks
- Any guidance needed on using either database.
He will also be holding twice weekly drop-in clinics in the Library to deal with any of the above in person. The times of these clinics are posted around the Library.
If you need any assistance finding or contacting him, please ask at the library counter.
Did you know that there is a Westlaw UK and Lawtel Support Group on Facebook? The group provides a forum for students to request help and receive legal research tips from Westlaw and Lawtel professionals. If you are a Facebook user, simply search for ‘Westlaw UK’, and join the Westlaw UK and Lawtel Support Group.
LexisNexis and Westlaw staff will be running legal database workshops at College in October. The workshops may benefit GDL students who are new to legal databases, and LPC or BVC students who would like some refresher training in advance of their legal research assessments.
Rutendo Hanyanisi will be running the following LexisNexis Butterworths workshops on Friday 17 October: 11.00am-12.00pm, 12.00pm-1.00pm, 1.30pm-2.30pm and 2.30pm-3.30pm.
Sheena Shepherd will be running the following Westlaw workshops on Monday 20 October: 11.00am-12.00pm, 12.00pm-1.00pm, 1.30pm-2.30pm and 2.30pm-3.30pm.
The workshops are voluntary, but places are limited to 20 students per session. If you would like to attend a workshop, please contact the library to sign up. You can contact the library in person, or by telephone (01483 216041) or email (library.brm@lawcol.co.uk).
Please note that only students who sign up can attend the workshop. Also, students who sign up, are expected to attend workshops, or give notice of cancellation, so that their place may be offered to another.
If you are unable to attend the workshops, but would like further legal database training, we recommend that you try LexisNexis Butterworths and Westlaw online training tutorials.
The College has recently added Chitty on Contracts to our Westlaw legal database service. Chitty is one of the key contract law practitioner texts, and the addition of the online version is a real bonus to library users. You can access Chitty online by going to ELITE > My Library > Databases > Westlaw > Commentary > By Title > Chitty on Contracts.
The Library will be running a series of legal research workshops in early September. The workshops are designed to support LPC students with their Practical Legal Research, but they are open to all students who wish to attend.
The first workshop is an introduction to printed legal research using Halsbury’s Laws, Halsbury’s Statutes, Current Law and the Digest. The second workshop is an introduction to electronic legal research using LexisNexis Butterworths and Westlaw databases.
Printed legal research workshops:
- 11.00am-12.00pm Monday 8 September
- 2.00pm-3.00pm Monday 8 September
- 11.00am-12.00pm Tuesday 9 September
- 2.00pm-3.00pm Tuesday 9 September
- 5.00pm-6.00pm Wednesday 17 September
- 11.00am-12.00pm Thursday 18 September
- 4.45pm-5.45pm Thursday 18 September
Electronic legal research workshops:
The workshops are voluntary, but places are limited to 20 students per session. If you would like to attend a workshop, please contact the library to sign up. You can contact the library in person, or by telephone (01483 216041) or email (library.brm@lawcol.co.uk).
Please note that only students who sign up can attend the workshop. Also, students who sign up, are expected to attend workshops, or give notice of cancellation, so that their place may be offered to another.
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