ABSTRACT
If you are new to legal research, start with Chapter 2 and work your way through the book. Chapter 2 will introduce you to an efficient and sensible method for approaching almost any legal research project. Chapter 3 provides an overview of our legal system. Chapters 4 to 11 show you how to: • identify your research problem according to recognised legal
categories; • locate books that will give you an overview of the law that affects
the particular issues with which you are concerned; • find, read and understand the law itself: statutes, statutory
instruments and cases; • use the tools found in all law libraries-citators and digests-
that enable you to find court opinions that address the issues you are interested in;
• organise the results of your research into a legal memorandum.
