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Outline Introduction to the C J Koh Law Library Library catalogue- LINC & myLINC Sources of Law Singapore -Legislation & Case Law UK – Legislation & Case Law Legal abbreviations and citations Electronic resources

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The C J Koh Law Library History The library was originally established in September 1957, catering primarily to the Faculty of Law at the Bukit Timah Campus. In April 1980, the Law Library moved to new premises at Kent Ridge, occupying two floors of the Faculty of Law building.

The C J Koh Law Library On 1st January 2001, the Law Library was renamed the C J Koh Law Library, in appreciation of Mr Koh Choon Joo’s generous donations to the library. After extensive renovations which began in July 2000, the library celebrated its official opening by the Honourable Chief Justice Yong Pung How on 27 February 2002. Following the Government's announcement to reallocate Bukit Timah Campus to NUS on 28 May 2005, the Law Library made its historic return to its first home in August 2006.

Library collection The C J Koh Law Library has a rich collection of local, foreign and international legal resources. The library’s traditional strength is in the common law. Apart from a comprehensive collection of Singapore legal materials, the library also has extensive collections of legal resources from Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The library has developed collections on comparative and international law, international trade law as well as the laws of the European Community. The library’s print collection is bolstered by subscriptions to online legal resources which are available via the NUS Libraries Portal http://libportal.nus.edu.sg/. Major databases include Lexis Singapore and HeinOnline.

Library collection

Library collection

Library collection

Services and Facilities Loan entitlement: 20 items Collections Loan period RBR 2 hours RBR (1 Week loan) 7 days (No online renewal) Books 14 days (2 online renewals)

Services & Facilities Collections Fines RBR $1.00 per hour after book is due RBR (1 Week Loan) $0.50 per day Books (including books in Closed Stacks) Photocopy/Printing Cost Printing from network printer 4¢ per page Photocopying 3¢ per page

RBR & RBR (1-Week Loan) RBR books (Reserve Books/ Readings): Recommended reading books Located at Self-service Loan section, Level 1 Loan period - 2 hours Borrow & return books at the Self-check machine RBR (1 Week Loan): Multiple copies of RBR books Located at Self-service Loan section, Level 1 1 week loan No online renewal

Self-Service Loan RBR – 2 hrs loan RBR (1 Week Loan) – 7 days LW Holdshelf - 7 days Books on hold (Reserved / Ready for pick-up books) A Library PIN is required to borrow books from this section Forget your library PIN? Reset it via this link : https://linc.nus.edu.sg/pinreset~S16)

NUS Libraries Portal Access from NUS homepage http://www.nus.edu.sg. Select LIBRARY from top menu bar

NUS Libraries Portal http://libportal.nus.edu.sg/ Check library account Searching for books & journals Library Opening Hours

Find Books- FindMore@NUSL Search by keyword “patent law Singapore” Select ‘Books’ to narrow down your search

Please take note of the call number, location and status of the item Find Books Please take note of the call number, location and status of the item

Find Books/ Journals - LINC Search by title “Intellectual property law of Singapore” Search by title, author, keyword or by subject to find library resources.

Find Books/ Journals - LINC Click on the to place a hold on items in Closed Stacks and books loaned out

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Check your Library Account- MyLinc Enter your student card number & library PIN to login If you are not sure what is Library PIN, please refer to the Library FAQ’s. As term Card holders, your library PIN is your Singapore NRIC no. or your passport number or FIN number without alphabet/s

Check your Library Account- MyLinc View your loans Renew items (2 times) Check if requested item/s are ready for pick-up Check fines, if any

Find journal articles Example: Ong, Burton. "Interpreting Intellectual Property Statutes in Singapore: What Are the Limits of Judicial Creativity."  SAcLJ  24 (2012): 1020. Find out the name of journal using Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations (http://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/) Search by journal name in Library catalogue

Find journal articles Ong, Burton. "Interpreting Intellectual Property Statutes in Singapore: What Are the Limits of Judicial Creativity."  Singapore Academy of Law Journal 24 (2012): 1020.

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Find journal articles

Find cases from Law reports Honda Motor Co. Ltd V David Silver Spares Ltd [2010]F.S.R. 40 Find out the Law Report using Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations Search by the name of the Law reports in the Library catalogue For example: F.S.R. is Fleet Street Reports

Find cases from Law reports

Find cases from Law reports Electronic version accessible via Westlaw Next database

Find cases from Law reports

Sources of Law Singapore & UK

Singapore Legal system The 3 sources of law in Singapore: Legislature Parliament enacts statutes Executive Executes & administers the law; e.g. subsidiary legislation Judiciary Judges make decisions in cases

Sources of Law Primary legal materials Legislation Statutes Subsidiary legislation; e.g. regulations Case Law Judge-made law Reported in Law Reports

Sources of Law Singapore Legislation – legislative process The Legislature, the law-making body in Singapore, is made up of the President the Parliament of Singapore A Bill becomes law when it is passed by Parliament and assented to by the President But an Act only comes into force on a date determined by the Minister and notified in the Government Gazette.

Singapore Legislation The 2 main sources of legislation in Singapore today are: I. Statutes of the Republic of Singapore (primary legislation) Print: K7399 1985 II. Subsidiary Legislation of the Republic of Singapore (secondary legislation) Print: K7449 1990

Singapore legislation Where to find it? I. Statutes Version Location Rev. Ed. (1985-) (print) *K7399 1985 (current eds. at Law Library Loans Desk) (online) LawNet: Law students access via Faculty of Law Resources Consolidated version Singapore Statutes Online: http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/

UK Legislation The 2 main sources of UK legislation are: Acts of Parliament (primary legislation) a. Public General Acts b. Local and Personal Acts Statutory Instruments (secondary legislation)

UK legislation Where to find it? I. Acts of Parliament Version Notes Location Public General Acts … Annual bound volumes. 1952- 1866-1951 *K2011 PG *K2011 P Revised legislation The official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom legislation.gov.uk: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ *Refer to LINC for exact location in library

Case Law Singapore & UK

Case Law -Singapore Decisions of Singapore Courts. Law reports are the published judgments of court cases. Cases are only selected for reporting if they raise or expand upon significant points of law. Therefore, only a small proportion of cases are reported, and these are mainly from the Supreme Court (i.e. High Court, Court of Appeal and Constitutional Tribunal).

Case Law -Singapore Law Reports of Singapore Singapore Law reports The principle law report series in Singapore is the Singapore Law Reports. It covers cases from 1965. Ref: K7599 SLR

Case Law- Singapore B. Singapore Law Reports Reissue The Academy of Law has re-issued the Singapore Law Reports from 1965 through 2009 with re-written head notes for the reports from 1965 to 2002 and re-edited judgment texts that conform to the SAL house-style. This set of reports is called the Singapore Law Reports (Reissue). Ref: K7599 SLR

Case Law -Singapore Other sources of law Unreported judgments These are full text transcripts of all written judgments as handed down in the Subordinate Courts, the High Court and Court of Appeal. They are available on LawNet. “Case Law & Decisions” of the Subordinate Courts and Supreme Court are available for free for the last 3 months in LawNet under its links to Free Resources. Earlier judgments are also available in print in the law library. Ref: K7599 CA (Court of Appeal, Civil Appeals) K7599 CRA (Court of Appeal, Criminal Appeals) K7599 DC (District Court) K7599 J (High Court) K7599 MC (Magistrates’ Court)

Case Law -Singapore Other sources of law Decisions of Boards/Tribunals Decisions of various tribunals and boards are available on LawNet. Most of them are not readily available in print. Decisions include those of the Copyright Tribunal Income Tax Board of Review Military Court of Appeal Syariah Appeal Board Strata Titles Boards. LawNet access: via NUS Faculty of Law website

Case citation What is it? A case citation is a reference to a legal case in the law reports. It generally includes the names of the parties to the case year the decision of the court was delivered or published volume number of the law report abbreviation of the law report series first page at which the case is reported. Example Anwar Siraj and Another v Ting Kang Chung John [2010] 1 SLR 1026

Case Law- UK A. Modern Reports The Law Reports (1865- ) The official set of law reports published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales Text of each report is reviewed by judges before publication So, it takes between 10 and 14 months to report cases The only set of reports that has a summary of the arguments of counsel

Case law – UK Modern Reports The Law Reports (1865- ) (contd.) The 4 current series of the Law Reports are: Title Reports Decisions of Ref Appeal Cases (AC) House of Lords, Privy Council & Court of Justice of the European Communities K2022 4C Queen’s Bench (QB) Queen’s Bench & Court of Appeal & ECJ on appeal from QB K2022 2E Family (Fam) Family Division & Court of Appeal on appeal from Fam D K2022 1C Chancery (Ch) Chancery Division & Court of Appeal on appeal from Ch D K2022 3B

Case Law UK Modern Reports 2. The Weekly Law Reports (WLR) (1953- ) Timely, full text reports. Ref: K2020 WNR 3. All England Law Reports (All ER) (1936- ) Timely, full text reports; contains editorial notes. Ref: K2020 AELR 4. Specialist series Contain a selection of cases in a discrete practice area. e.g. Lloyds Law Reports (maritime and commercial law) Ref: K2020 LLL 5. Newspapers Brief, edited reports. e.g. The Times Law Reports Ref: K2020 TR/ K2020 TLR

Secondary sources Secondary sources are publications which refer and relate to the law, but are not themselves sources of law. These include: Textbooks, casebooks, etc. Legal encyclopaedias Legal periodicals Research literature. E.g. Theses Reference works. E.g. Dictionaries, directories, bibliographies, digests, citators, indexes, etc. Secondary sources assist in locating relevant primary sources of law assist in the interpretation of relevant primary sources.

Abbreviations & Citations What do Abbreviations Mean? 1. Print Index: Donald Raistrick, Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations, 3rd ed. (London: Bowker-Saur, 2008). Location: KB280 Rai 2008 (LW RBR; LW Reference Office; LW Reference1) 2. Online: Law Reference Desk http://libportal.nus.edu.sg/frontend/ms/c-j-koh-law-library/research/legal-resources-on-the-web/law-reference-desk Librarian’s pick - Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations http://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/

Abbreviations & Citations How to Cite References Preferred manual for Faculty of Law: Canadian guide to uniform legal citation, 8th ed. Call number: KB280.2 Can 2014 Location: (LW Holdshelf, LW RBR, LW Reference Office, LW Reference 1) See also: Citation & Legal Writing http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/aecontent.php?pid=108391&sid=844103

Databases- LawNet Legal database by Singapore Academy of Law. The following materials are available via Lawnet Singapore & Malaysia cases Journal articles Legislation, subsidiary legislation, Acts supplements etc. Parliamentary reports

LawNet http://www.law.nus.edu.sg/

LawNet For example :Doctor's Associates Inc v Lim Eng Wah (trading as SUBWAY NICHE)

LawNet

LawNet

LawNet

Singapore Statutes Online

Singapore Statutes Online

Singapore Statutes Online

Westlaw Next

Westlaw Next

Westlaw Next

Useful Information Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (www.ipos.gov.sg) European Patent Office (www.epo.org) US Patent & Trade Mark Office (www.uspto.gov) World Intellectual Property Organization (www.wipo.org) WTO TRIPS (http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/trips_e.htm) Surf IP (www.surfip.gov.sg) IP Australia (www.ipaustralia.gov.au) UK IP Office (http://www.ipo.gov.uk/home.htm)

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