1. GCIP Library Orientation
Presented by: Carol & Bissy
1 Aug 2017

2. 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

3. The NUS Libraries Central Library C J Koh Law Library Chinese Library
Medical Library
Hon Sui Sen
Memorial Library
Science Library
Music Library

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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 Major databases include Lexis Singapore and HeinOnline.

7. Library collection

8. Library collection

9. Library collection

10. 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)

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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 :

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

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

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

18. 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

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

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

21. Reserve books

22. Reserve books
Select the item you would like to request

23. Reserve books
You will receive an notification once the book is ready for collection

24. Check your Library Account- MyLincOR

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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 (
Search by journal name in Library catalogue

29. 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.

30. Find journal articles

31. Find journal articles

32. 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

33. Find cases from Law reports

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

35. Find cases from Law reports

36. Sources of Law
Singapore & UK

37. 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

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

39. 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.

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

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

42. 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)

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

44. Case Law
Singapore & UK

45. 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).

46. 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

47. 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

48. 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)

49. 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

50. 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

51. 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

52. 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

53. 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

54. 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.

55. 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
Librarian’s pick - Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations

56. 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 Location: (LW Holdshelf, LW RBR, LW Reference Office, LW Reference 1)
See also:
Citation & Legal Writing

57. 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

58. LawNet

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

60. LawNet

61. LawNet

62. LawNet

63. Singapore Statutes Online

64. Singapore Statutes Online

65. Singapore Statutes Online

66. Westlaw Next

67. Westlaw Next

68. Westlaw Next

69. Useful Information
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (
European Patent Office (
US Patent & Trade Mark Office (
World Intellectual Property Organization (
WTO TRIPS (
Surf IP (
IP Australia (
UK IP Office (

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