CHAPTER 16

SECONDARY SOURCES RESEARCH

Secondary Legal Authorities

Kinds of Secondary Legal Authorities

Review Articles, Treatises, Restatement of the Law, Legal Encyclopedias and other similar items.

Secondary Legal Authorities

Annotated Statutory Compilation

The Philippine Permanent and General Statutes The Health Laws of the Philippines

Secondary Legal Authorities

Case Digest
Phil Digest, Republic of the Philippines Digest, Velayos Digest and SCRA Quick Index Digest

Secondary Legal Authorities

Purposes on Secondary Legal Authorities

Secondary Legal Authorities

Study of Secondary Legal Authorities Lead to the Primary Legal Authorities

Secondary Legal Authorities

Guidelines for choosing SLA
Background reading is helpful Avoid highly scholarly law reviews treatises National Law Encyclopedias will be helpful Choose the most up-todate materials Do not uncritically accept the theory of the author, do your own reading of the primary authorities

Secondary Legal Authorities

Using Legal Periodicals

Finding Articles In Legal Journals and Law Reviews

Secondary Legal Authorities

Using Legal Periodicals

Law Reviews

Secondary Legal Authorities

Using Legal Periodicals

Other Legal Periodicals

Secondary Legal Authorities

Using Legal Periodicals

Searching Legal Journal Indexes

Secondary Legal Authorities

Searching for Articles in Full-Text Databases

No need for comprehensive search, just relevant articles.

Secondary Legal Authorities

Searching for Articles in Full-Text Databases

Finding journals and Law Reviews

Secondary Legal Authorities

General News Sources

National Newspapers

Secondary Legal Authorities

Using Legal Encyclopedias

most useful in the beginning of a research

Secondary Legal Authorities

Using Treatises, Hornbooks & Nutshells

most useful in the beginning of a research

Secondary Legal Authorities

Re-Statement of Laws
most useful in the beginning of a research

Secondary Legal Authorities

Tips for using Secondary Sources

Make sure secondary sources are up-to-date

Secondary Legal Authorities

Tips for using Secondary Sources

Online Sources are better to browse if printed

Secondary Legal Authorities

Tips for using Secondary Sources

Dont spend too much time on a particular source

Secondary Legal Authorities

Tips for using Secondary Sources

These sources are meant to speed up the entire process of the research

Secondary Legal Authorities

Practice Material and Form Books
Dictionaries International Treaties Form Books

Secondary Legal Authorities

Practice Material and Form Books
Textbooks
Administrative Law Civil Law Commercial Law Criminal Law Labor Law Land Titles and Natural Resources Legal & Judicial Ethics Political Law Election Law Local Government International Law Remedial Law Civil Procedure Legal Research & Bibliography Statutory Construction Taxation Health Laws Tariff and Custom Codes

Secondary Legal Authorities

Philippine On-Line Sources

These sources are meant to speed up the entire process of the research

Secondary Legal Authorities

Foreign On-Line Sources

These sources are used in the Philippine legal research

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