Finding Legal Information: A Guide to Print and Electronic Sources

For many reference librarians, excepting of course the law librarian, an enquiry on a legal topic is often something to be dreaded. First there's the unfamiliar language, tort, equity, and incorporeal hereditaments all just waiting to confound those who stray into the Dewey 340s. Then there are the abbreviations; you need to know your WLRs from your All ERs, and speaking of which there are the law reports, and the statutes, and the statutory instruments. What's more, if you're not in a law library, the stuff is not even neatly confined to the 340s but spills over into other subject...