Monday 29 September 2014

Chinese Hong Kong Electronic Citation (CHKEC)

The Chinese Hong Kong Electronic Citation (CHKEC) is the citation for the unreported Chinese judgments in Westlaw HK. We have added this entry in the legal information guide Information about Law Report Citations which lists the citations, the corresponding law report titles and the library holdings in print and/or electronic versions.

HKEC               Hong Kong Electronic Citation (for unreported English judgments in Westlaw HK )

CHKEC             Chinese Hong Kong Electronic Citation (for unreported Chinese  judgments in Westlaw HK)


You can access the legal information guide Information about Law Report Citations on the Lee Quo Wei Law Library webpage under Information Guides & Subject Guides and then Legal Information Guides




Monday 22 September 2014

LegalTrac

LegalTrac is a database which contains full text and bibliographic records of journal material.  The Library has reviewed the coverage of LegalTrac against our other sources such as  Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text , Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective and Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals and the decision was made to cancel LegalTrac as the minimal original coverage did not warrant the subscription price. Please see details of the journal index sources mentioned in this post for access to journal materials.

Coverage: 1982 – present
Full text and bibliographic records database of Anglo-American law journals

Coverage: 1908 - 1981 
Bibliographic records database of Anglo-American law journals

Coverage: 1982 - present   
Bibliographic records database of non Anglo-American law journals with links to content full text available in Heinonline.

You can access the above three databases at the Law Database List


Friday 12 September 2014

Law Library Webpage Update

The Library has recently updated the following legal information guides on the Lee Quo Wei Law Library webpage

This guide introduces selected general reference sources on European Union law in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library and on the Internet.

This guide introduces selected general reference sources on Hong Kong legal materials in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library.

This guide introduces selected general reference sources on PRC legal materials in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library.

This guide introduces selected general reference sources on UK legal materials in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library.

This guide introduces selected general reference sources on United Nations in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library and on the Internet.

This guide introduces brief information about Chinese law online databases which are available from law databases page

This guide introduces free Internet resources on government information in various countries

Information about locating Legislation (available free sources)
This guide introduces free Internet resources on legislation in various countries

Friday 5 September 2014

Subject Guides to Resources for Term One 2014/15

The Lee Quo Wei Law Library has uploaded most of the “subject guides to resources” for Term One 2014/15 on its website. These guides include major resources, textbooks, law reports, journals etc. on these subjects to assist your legal research for these. The print copies are available at the Law Library and the Legal Resources Centre. You can access the soft copy under Subject Guides – 2014/15 Term 1 of the Law Library webpage. Please find attached the links here for your easy access.