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Report is from a Northern Ireland Court, click
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information. |
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Report is from a Court in England and Wales,
click here for
further information. |
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Report is from a European Court, click here
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sure what the reference
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The
best place to access Northern Ireland
Building Regulations in full text
format is in the Barbour Index.
Once
you have entered the Barbour Index,
type in Northern Ireland Building
Regulations into the simple search
screen and they will be presented
on the following page in full text
format. Alternatively key in subject
area along with the words Northern
Ireland Building Regulations to
narrow it down to a particular document.
The latest
Statutory Rule governing Northern Ireland
Building Regulations (Statutory Rule
2000 No. 389) Building
Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000
is freely available by clicking
here.
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Use the
Celex
database when searching for EU Directives. CELEX is
the official legal database of the European
Community. It includes full text of treaties,
legislation, proposals & judgments of the European
Court of Justice. Summaries of proposed legislation
& European Parliament questions are also included.
1951-current.
You can find all Directives by searching for
"Directive" in the Document Type field. You will
probably want to narrow your search by including one
or more words from the Title field or the Subject
Matter field in your query. |
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Looking for Northern Ireland
Statutory Rules? |
Statutory Rules
can be found online:
| Statutory
Rules of Northern Ireland
1991
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The Statutory
Rules contain the main body of secondary
legislation. From 1922 until 1972
they were known as the NI Statutory
Rules and Orders but from 1973
they became the NI Statutory Rules.
The S.R.s are the rules, regulations
and orders made by the NI rule making
authorities and are the equivalent
of the UK Statutory Instruments. Title
examples:
Road
Traffic (Traffic Wardens) Order (Northern
Ireland) 1999
Motor
Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations
(Northern Ireland) 1999 |
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The
paper version is at Journals 348.416025
from 1974-current. |
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All
the major Construction Design and Management
(CDM) documents can be found online in the
database called Construction
Information Service.
Construction
Information Service provides full
text access to thousands of publications.
Once
you have entered the database using
your Athens username and password,
the easiest way to find CDM publications
is by clicking on the Browse
button at the top of the screen, and
clicking on C in the alphabetical
list under Browse by Subject.
At the time of writing, this gives
you access to 80 publications including
important documents from the Health
and Safety Executive, BSRIA and CIBSE.
Alternatively, you can use the Simple
or Advanced search screen to narrow
your search.
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can find many books on CDM in the Library.
Use the keyword
search in the Library Catalogue. |
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Looking for JCT information?
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Construction
Information Service provides full
text access to
all the JCT05 and
JCT98 material.
Use your
Athens username and password to
enter the database.
To find JCT05 material,
click on the Publishers
button at the top of the screen, and
find
Sweet and Maxwell in
the alphabetical list.
To find
JCT98 material,
you need to follow the directions
above, but look for the publisher
Joint Contracts Tribunal instead.
Alternatively,
you can find all the JCT05 and JCT98 material
in the Barbour Index database. Using your
Athens username and password, login to the
Barbour Index, choose Construction Expert
from the menu, go to the Advanced Search
and key in Joint Contracts Tribunal in the
Publisher field. You can then sort the results
by clicking on the top of the Year column,
to get access to the latest contracts.
In addition,
all the relevant JCT publications - contract
forms, supplements and guidance - are available
in the Library in the Short Loan Room, (behind
the Issue Desk). They can be found at the
shelf number 692.8/JOI. The Joint
Contracts Tribunal website has a good
guide
on how to select the relevant material you
need.
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Looking for NEC3
Contracts?
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NEC3 Contracts are available on-campus only.
The NEC3 Contracts are a legal
framework of project management procedures, and are the most widely
used contracts in UK engineering and
construction projects. The University of Ulster
Library is the first UK academic Library to make
the contracts available electronically.
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Looking for journal
articles on a particular legal topic? |
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of thumbing through table of contents pages
in our journal collection, you can use electronic
databases to enter keywords and search across
hundreds of legal journals at a time. Using
the three databases below will give you full
text articles in the case of Lexis-Nexis and
SwetsWise, and references in the case of Current
Legal Information. If you need any further
help please do not hesitate to contact a member
of staff. |
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This service contains full text. |
This service can be used from home. |
This service uses Athens authentication. Please
read the guide
for further information. |
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A large database
which includes legislation, case law and
legal journals.
Once logged
in, choose Lexis-Nexis Professional. Use
the Legal menu on the left-hand
of the screen to quickly access relevant
parts of this large database.
UK
Journals Clicking here gives access to
the file UK Law Journals, a combined
file of all United Kingdom law journals available
in the LEXIS service. You can search across
all these journals or narrow it down to a
particular title using the drop-down menu
at the top of the search screen. The most
useful titles for your studies include:
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Building and Construction |
| Building
Law Monthly |
1999- |
| Construction
and Engineering Law |
2001- |
| Construction
Industry Law Letter |
1999- |
| Environmental
Law Monthly |
1999- |
| Environmental
Law Review |
1999- |
| Estates
Gazette Legal |
1997-
Feb 2003 |
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Property
and Planning |
| Butterworths
Planning Law Service |
2003- |
| Butterworths
Property Law Service |
2003- |
| Commercial
Property |
April
2000- |
| Hill
& Redman's Law of Landlord &
Tenant |
2003- |
| (EMIS)
Property Service |
2003- |
Using Lexis-Nexis
also gives you access to the archives of
hundreds of top-quality newspapers published
worldwide. |
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| SwetsWise
is a searchable database of over 3000 full-text
journal titles. It includes access to journals
published by Elsevier and Blackwell among
others. Table of Contents of a further 15000
journals can also be viewed, but not searched.
There are a
number of important law journals available
in SwetsWise.
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Among the many useful databases
in Westlaw UK is the Legal Journals Index.
It references or abstracts articles from more
than 430 legal journals published in the United
Kingdom and other European countries or covering
topics pertaining to the laws of the European
Union and its member states. Coverage begins
with 1986.
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Useful Built Environment Law Journals
in Stock in Jordanstown |
| There
are a number of very useful journal
titles related to to construction and
building law in the Library in Jordanstown.
These titles come in on a regular basis
- mostly monthly - and are all held
on the first floor of the Library. They
are available as reference only. |
| Construction
Law, 1996- |
Journals
343.42078 |
| Construction
Law Digest, 1983/84-2001 |
Journals 343.42078 |
| Construction
Law Journal, 1993- |
Journals
343.42078 |
| Conveyancer
and Property Lawyer, 1979 - 1990; 1993- |
Journals
346.42043 |
| The
Conveyancer, 1993- |
Journals
346.4203 |
| Estates
Gazette Case Summaries, 1989-2000 |
Journals
346.4204 |
| Estates
Gazette Digest of Land and Property
Cases, 1968 - 1984, (then see Estates
Gazette Law Reports) |
Journals
346.4204 |
| Estates
Gazette Law Reports, 1985- |
Journals
346.4204 |
| European
Legal Journals Index, 1993- |
Abstracts
340 |
| Journal
of Planning and Environment Law, 1973- |
Journals
346.42045 |
| Journal
of Planning and Property Law, 1948 -
1971 (then see title above) |
Journals
346.42045 |
| Journal
of Property Case Decisions (Northern
Ireland), 1988, (then see Property Journal
(Northern Ireland) |
Journals
346.41604 |
| Legal
Journals Index, 1986-1999 |
Abstracts
340 |
| Property
and Compensation Reports, 1970 - 1985
(then see Property Planning and Compensation
Reports) |
Journals
346.4204 |
| Property
Journal (Northern Ireland) 1990-2000 |
Journals
346.41604 |
| Property
Planning and Compensation Reports, 1986- |
Journals 346.4204 |
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| This
database contains full text British Standards. It is fully
searchable by keyword or by the number of the standard if
you have it. Also includes comprehensive index to world
standards. |
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This
database contains full text British Standards, and also
includes a comprehensive index to world standards. It is
fully searchable by keyword or by the number of the standard
if you have it. Many European and international standards
have been adopted by the British Standards Institute. If
it has been adopted it will be available in full text format
in this database.
If the standard you want is
not in this database, check the ISO
database for further details. The full-text will not
be available to you from ISO, but we may be able to order
it for you via
Document Delivery Service.
In addition, the Library subscribes
to the ASTM standards. The American Society for the
Testing of Materials standards are available in full text
format on a dedicated machine in Jordanstown LRC, and cover
all standards up to the year 2006. Ask at the Library Information
Point for further information. |
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| Looking
for the meaning of a legal citation? |
Leeds University
have created a good brief guide to understanding
legal
citations. For further
help you may also consult Donald Raistrick's book
Index to legal citations and abbreviations
(1993 edition) available in the Quick Reference
section at 340.0148/RAI. |
| Looking
for the meaning of a legal term? |
The
UK Government's Court Service has a
glossary
of the most common legal terms. Stroud's judicial
dictionary of words and phrases (5th edition,
14th Supplement) (1999) is another good place
to look. It is in the Quick Reference section
at 340.03/STR. |
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Leeds University
have created a good brief guide to understanding
legal abbreviations.
For further help you may also consult Donald Raistrick's
book Index to legal citations and abbreviations
(1993 edition) available in the Quick Reference
section at 340.0148/RAI. |
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Looking
for Northern Ireland Planning Appeal
Decisions? |
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The Northern
Ireland Planning Appeals Commission is an independent
appellate body established under statute to deal
with a wide range of land use planning issues and
related matters. You can search the last six months
of reports and decisions of planning appeals here.
To search for
all
planning applications & decisions since 1993
and all Planning appeals since 1997, plus earlier
"key" cases (over 2400 appeals), go
to Planning
Online. |
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Looking
for Northern Ireland Area Development
Plans? |
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Belfast Metropolitan Area Draft Plan 2015 (BMAP) is
available online. Plans covering individual areas,
and areas not included in the Belfast metropolitan
area, are available
here, and
here. |
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Looking for
Command Papers? |
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A selection of Command Papers and
other government documents are freely available
here. They are divided into two separate
archives. |
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