Statute books
In addition to textbooks and casebooks, there are various series of statute books aimed specifically at students. These contain statutes relating to particular topics, such as criminal law, land law or employment law, and contain those statutory excerpts which the editors consider to contain the key legislative provisions relating to the topic.
It is always worth checking at the start of your course whether you can take statute books (or photocopies of the statutes themselves) into your examinations. You will often find that you are permitted to do so, provided that the text is clean in the sense of being free from notes of any kind. If this is so in your college or university, it will obviously be in your own financial interest to avoid making notes in your statute books while you are studying. Otherwise, you will have to make the unpalatable choice between not taking your statute books into the examination, or buying new copies for that purpose. (Even if you are not permitted to take annotated statute books or statutes into your examinations, you may be permitted to underline and highlight, and put edge markers on the pages. It is important that you should clarify at a very early stage whether your college or university permits any – or all – of these devices.)
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- Textbooks, casebooks, statute books and journals
- Choosing books
- A. STATUTE
- The Statute
- CHAPTER VII Statute and Custom
- Statute law and delegated legislation
- Statute law other than the Human Rights Act1998
- Common law, equity, statute law and delegated legislation
- Common law and statute law
- Journals
- Introduction
- CONCLUSION
- Libraries and learning resource centres
- Herennius Modestinus
- Finding statutes
- Citing statutes
- Senatorial Law-Making
- B. CONSTITUTIONES