4.2 Reading


preparation for reading research • topic development A Discuss these questions.


1 What types of organization provide access to useful information for lawyers?


2 How has the Internet helped make the law-making process more transparent?


B You are going to read a guide on using the Internet for law studies. Write three questions


you want the guide to answer.


C One student wrote about accessing information on the Internet before reading


the text on the opposite page. Write A (I agree), D (I disagree) or ? (I’m not sure) next to the ideas on the right.


D Read all the topic sentences.


1 What is the structure of this text? Choose Structure A or B on the right.


2 What do you expect to find in each paragraph?


E Read the text and check your predictions.


F Answer these questions. 1 Where would you look for primary sources when conducting research?


2 Why are there no page numbers in a medium-neutral citation?


3 Which court was a case cited as EWHC (Fam) heard in?


4 Why is the House of Lords cited as UKHL in medium-neutral citation?


G Topics sometimes develop inside a paragraph.


1 Does the topic develop in each paragraph in the text? If so, underline the word or words which introduce the change.


2 What is the effect of the word or words on the development of the topic?


See Skills bank Structure A


Para 1 Intro. to legal sources on the Internet Para 2


Availability of access to UK legislation


Para 3 Costs of accessing case law Para 4


Availability of secondary sources


Para 5 Using information from other sources Para 6 Interpreting website codes


Structure B


Para 1. Primary sources of legal information Para 2. Different types of statute Para 3. How to pay for legal information Para 4. Advantages of using text books Para 5. Controlling information Para 6. Finding countries on the web


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It is much easier to do research on case law in the library rather than on the Internet.


It is difficult to judge whether or not the information on a blog site is correct.


You can waste a lot of time searching the web for information that is completely irr elevant.


Books in the library are a much more reliable source of information than the web.


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