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Legal Research Training: Moving the Bar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2010

Mark Haines
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Abstract

The Bar Vocational Course, which all potential barristers must complete, emphasises the importance of legal research skills. Mark Haines from BPP College outlines its current structure and heralds the arrival of the new Bar Professional Training Course

Keywords

legal researchacademic law librariesvocational education
Type
Legal Research Skills – Life-long Learning?
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2010 , pp. 86 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2010

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