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English law

The law in England can be found in many different sources. It is important that you become familiar with the main sources, how to access them and then how to interpret the law that is within them.

The two main sources of English law are:

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Lexis+

The library has upgraded to the Full Academic Library on Lexis+ which includes 544 additional textbooks and sources. As a result of the upgrade both Halsbury’s Laws of England and Wales and the All England Law Reports (which have previously been available in print in the library) will now only be available online via Lexis+.

In addition to this, two loose-leaf publications (Miller on Product Liability and Harvey on Industrial Relations & Employment Law) have also been transferred to online only via Lexis+ along with some additional employment law sources.

Lexis+ can be accessed via the Databases page on the library website. The direct link is: https://guides.library.lincoln.ac.uk/lexis

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