Pacific Legal Gateway

One of the Pacific Legal Gateway's goals is to provide legal research training materials free of charge to those using the site. If you have legal research training materials you would like to post on this site, please contact PacLII.

Copyright Information: Materials available on this page are, however, for personal use only and should not be mass reproduced without prior consent from PacLII. If you would like to use the training materials for anything other than personal use, please contact PacLII for permission. In the event that the copyright belongs to a body other than PacLII, PacLII will contact them for permission.

Internet Guides

• Basic Internet Use (pdf)

A PacLII guide explaining the concept of the Internet and outlining basic use.

• Basic Internet Use (pdf)

A guide developed by the Commonwealth of Australia explaining how Internet functions and giving tips and tricks for better Internet use.

• Finding Information on the Internet: an Online Tutorial

Outstanding tutorial website developed by the University of Berkely that is useful both for the beginner and the experienced internet user. Addresses search engines, meta crawlers and the invisible web. Also contains guides on evaluating the reliability of web resources and citing them for academic purposes.

PacLII Guides

• Introduction to PacLII (pdf)

A guide explaining PacLII's work as well as a basic introduction on how to use the site.

• Researching on PacLII (pdf)

A guide to advanced legal research on PacLII.

• Using PITS (pdf)

A guide to using the Pacific Islands Treaty Series on PacLII.

General Legal Research Guides

• Constructing Online Searches (pdf)

A guide to better online legal research developed by Thomson Reuter's trainer, Patricia Veen.

• Introduction to Online Legal Research (pdf)

A basic guide to researching legal information online developed by the Commonwealth of Australia.

• Legal Research Module (pdf)

A comprehensive guide to researching legal information online developed by the Commonwealth of Australia. Includes case studies for practice.