InfoLit for U MOOC-Law-Section 3

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The resources of this series are designed to help you to illustrate what evaluation of legal information is and why it is necessary to do so; to draw up a checklist for evaluating legal information; and to apply the checklist to differentiate reputable, reliable and authoritative legal information from inaccurate or untrustworthy ones.

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    ["How to Evaluate Legal Information"]

    How to Evaluate Legal Information

    You have learned that it is necessary to evaluate legal information. And you have also learned some evaluation criteria. In this exercise, learners are required to match the legal information together.

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    Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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    ["Insights from an Award-Winning Academic: How to Decide if an Idea or Argument is Strong and Relevant to Your Research"]

    Insights from an Award-Winning Academic: How to Decide if an Idea or Argument is Strong and Relevant to Your Research

    In this video, Dr Rebecca Ong, at City University of Hong Kong, shares her fascinating insights on how to decide whether an idea or argument is strong and relevant to your research

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    Legal research
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    ["What Criteria to Use to Evaluate Legal Information"]

    What Criteria to Use to Evaluate Legal Information

    In the video, it explains the criteria to use to evaluate legal information.

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    Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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    ["Insights from an Award-Winning Academic -Why Is It Important to Evaluate Legal Information?"]

    Insights from an Award-Winning Academic -Why Is It Important to Evaluate Legal Information?

    In the video, it explains why it is important to evaluate legal information.

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    Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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    Video
     
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    ["Why Evaluate Legal Information?"]

    Why Evaluate Legal Information?

    In this video, a year 3 LLB student who is preparing a term paper with a substantial research component regularly consults his supervisor. In a recent meeting, the supervisor queries why two pieces of information were cited in his draft. One piece of information is from a local real estate agent’s website summarizing the legal provision for the Hong Kong deed of mutual covenant agreements. Another piece of information is a court case covered in a Hong Kong land law blog.

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    Information resources -- Evaluation Legal research
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    Video