Feb

21

Law318 – Land Law – Magee

February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Anyone looking for Craigdarragh Trading Co Ltd v Doherty [1986] NI 218 should note that the year is wrong. It should be 1989. Enter the corrected citation in LexisLibrary and the case will be displayed.

Feb

20

Land Law (Magee)

February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment

If you’re having difficulty finding some of the readings for Law318, be aware that not everything is available from the usual electronic sources. Some older Irish cases are held in the Offprint collection on Short Loan, e.g. Week 5 cases – Jagoe v Harrington; McIlvenny v McKeever and Ulster Permanent Building Society v Junior Army and Navy Stores are all available as offprints.

Do an Author Search on the Library Catalogue for the lecturer’s name e.g. Diver, A and it will display all of the offprints listed for her. Not all will be for land law, but you’ll quickly see the ones you need.

A few cases/articles may be held as scans and these will be on your reading list in Blackboard.

Some cases/articles will be held in print sources in the Journals section on the ground floor. Look up the name of the journal or the law report  on the library catalogue (no abbreviations!) and you can photocopy the relevant part.

Feb

7

Twitter and contempt of court

February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment

The Attorney general, Dominc Grieve, was interviewed on the Today programme this morning.  He explained his views on contempt of court and Twitter, as well as the decision to release the Muslim cleric, Abu Qatada, on bail.  You can listen to the full interview at http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9693000/9693808.stm

Feb

1

Wylie’s Irish Land Law

February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment

It may be possible to buy a customised version of the 3rd ed of Wylie. It contacts the extracts which are relevant to Northern Ireland.

The only place you can get it is the No Alibis Bookshop, 83 Botanic Avenue, Belfast.  Tel: 9031 9601  http://www.noalibis.com/  Please contact the bookshop for more information.

Don’t forget there are still copies of the complete 3rd edition of Wylie available in the short loan collections  in both Jordanstown and Magee campus libraries.  Also Wylie 4th edition is available online in Lexis. You can access it by going to the Commentary section, select Browse, then scroll down the list to Irish Land Law.  Click on the + signs to open up the book, read and download.  If you have any problems just get in touch with Joanne (Jordanstown)  or Janice (Magee).  Your lecturers will tell you the correct edition to use.

Jan

30

Introduction to Property Law Law132 (Jordanstown)

January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment

As mentioned in the post for Magee, most of the cases on your reading list are available in Westlaw and LexisLibrary.  

In Week 2 reading the cases Kempston v Butler and McDowell v Ulster Bank  aren’t available online so they have been added to the library’s offprints collection available from the Issue Desk at Jordanstown.  Ask for File numbers F02786 (McDowell) and F02797 (Kempston). 

Week 6 – if you’re having problems finding In the matter of the Land registation Act (NI) 1970 and in the matter of…(1992) 3 NIJB 79 the try putting Eshywilligan in the Lexis Case name search box.  That should get you to the full text.

For Week 7 reading, again,  don’t forget that you will need to use LexisLibrary to find Northern Ireland cases.  Tip:    NIHE v McCann 1978 NIJB is available on LexisLibrary under the citation search 1979 NI 39.  NIHE v Duffin [1985] NIJB 210 is in Lexis Library under citation search 1985 NI 210. 

But always ask if you’re having any problems.

Jan

30

HeinOnline update

January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment

There is now a temporary username and password available to access HeinOnline off campus while we work to resolve the problem.  Find out more at http://www.library.ulster.ac.uk/electronic/check/eiscard.php?eisno=352

Jan

30

Intro to Property Law – Law132 (Magee)

January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Some tricky cases to find on this module:

The Kempston v Butler case (week 1/2)  and McDowell v Ulster Bank in Week 6/7 are available as offprints from the Issue Desk. 

The Case of Mines  (1567) 1 Plow. 310 in week 6/7 is available in the English Reports on Westlaw, but under the case name search R v Earl of Northumberland or the citation search 75 E.R. 472.

Week 6/7 - In the matter of the Land Registration Act (NI) 1970 and in the matter of..  is available in LexisLibrary but not by citation search.

Weeks 11 & 12 - NIHE v McCann 1978 NIJB is available on LexisLibrary under the citation search 1979 NI 39. NIHE v Duffin [1985] NIJB 210 is in Lexis Library under citation search 1985 NI 210.

The remain cases will be available on LexisLibrary, Westlaw or HeinOnline but please ask for help if you’re stuck

Jan

30

Land Law Reform – Northern Ireland

January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment

The Northern Ireland Law Commission’s Report on Land Law NILC 8 (2010) is available to view on the Northern Ireland Law Commission website.  This report follows on from the Consultation paper on Land Law (June 2009) and the Supplementary Consultation Paper on Land Law (February 2010).  

NILC 8  (2010) contains a draft Land Law Reform Bill (NI) and draft Ground Rents (Amendment) Bill (NI), along with explanatory notes.  The proposed legislation aims to rationalise the law in Northern Ireland in this important area.

Jan

27

HeinOnline access problems

January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Hein is currently not available off campus – you will get an error message when you try to login.  We are aware of the problem and working with Hein to resolve it as quickly as possible.

Jan

16

What is Google missing?

January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Watch this video from TED.com about the customisation of Google (and other) search results and the effect filtering may have on the information you gather.