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Current Awareness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2011

Katherine Read  and
Laura Griffiths
Katherine Read
Affiliation:
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Laura Griffiths
Affiliation:
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

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Type
Current Awareness
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 72 - 75
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2011

This Current Awareness column, and previous Current Awareness columns, are fully searchable in the caLIM database (Current Awareness for Legal Information Managers). The caLIM database is available on the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies website at: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/caware/caware.htm

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Cataloguing and Classification

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Judiciary

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