Law: Case Law: Find case law commentary

What is legal commentary?

• Secondary sources of law describe, summarise, explain, analyse or critique the law and are collectively referred to as legal commentary.
• Assist in locating and understanding the relevant primary sources of law (case law and legislation) by often providing references to leading cases and key legislation on specific legal topics.
• Examples: textbooks, case citators, statute annotators, legal dictionaries & encyclopaedias, journal articles and newspaper articles. 

Subject specific legal commentary

• Previously published in printed format as looseleaf services.
• Provide up to date information on specialised areas of law.
• May link directly to relevant case law and legislation.
• Provide a practical focus as they are published for the professional practitioner market.
• They are not academic textbooks but are useful to understand how the law is applied in practice.
• Titles are updated regularly to reflect the latest developments in case law and legislation making them more up to date than textbooks and legal encyclopaedias.

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