About this Guide
This guide is designed to support UQ students develop key legal research skills.
Legal Research Essentials is organised into four parts:
- Part 1: Research Skills introduces the concept of legal research, identifies the key sources of legal information, and the importance of researching strategically.
- Part 2: Secondary Sources focuses on the role of secondary sources in legal research.
- Part 3: Case Law provides an introduction on how to locate cases by citation or topic, and judge a case’s reliability.
- Part 4: Legislation helps students learn about the parliamentary process, how to find legislation and the materials used for statutory interpretation.
Attribution
The Legal Research Essentials Pressbook is a cloned version of Legal Research Skills: An Australian Guide (2023 Edition), which was adapted from UQ’s Legal Research Essentials website. The content has been reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 4.0 licence.
The content in Legal Research Essentials has been adapted for UQ students and differs from the original.
Acknowledgements
- The University of Queensland
- James Cook University
- The University of Southern Queensland
- Charles Darwin University
- Southern Cross University
- Queensland University of Technology
- Deakin University.
This chapter is adapted from About this Guide in Legal Research Skills: An Australian Law Guide by The University of Queensland Library, James Cook University Library, University of Southern Queensland Library, Charles Darwin University Library, Southern Cross University Library, Queensland University of Technology Library, and Deakin University Library.
