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Legal Abbreviations.
One of the common problems many law students first encounter is deciphering legal abbreviations. You have found what you think may well be a very useful case or journal article, but all you have to identify which journal or series of law reports it appears in is a mysterious abbreviation, such as JCL, LQR, L.J.Rep.N.S. or Ch.D.
You aren't expected to know these by heart (there are many hundred's of journals and law reports available) but you may come to recognise a few during the course of your studies.
Luckily there are a couple of very useful sources available which you can use to decipher these those which you don't know:
- Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations is a web based service which allows users to search for the meanings of abbreviations of English language legal publications. It is simple to use, freely available and widely respected.
- The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies provides an alphabetical listing of commonly used legal abbreviations and citations.
- A list of standard abbreviations can be found in, D Raistrick Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations. (340.03 RAI and in the Law Search Area at 340.03 RAI).
