Importance of Legal Research
Importance of Legal Research
Importance of Legal Research
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LEGAL RESEARCH
Meaning and types of Legal Research
Legal Research usually refers to any systematic study of legal rules,
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l- Explanatory Research
l- Comparative Research
IMPORTANCE OF LEGAL RESEARCH
l 1. Legal research as an essential lawyering skill
Our courts have set the standards they expect of counsel appearing
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research stage when she identifies the relevant facts and determines the
legal issues that must be researched. This analysis continues and is refined
as she decides where, how, and what to search. As she finds seemingly
relevant legal materials, she must understand them and how they apply to
the facts of her case.
This research provides a crucial analytical foundation that will inform her
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decisions for the remainder of the case. When viewed in this light,
research can be seen as a critical, enduring component of representing a
client that will ultimately build confidence while pleading as well as while
giving advice to the clients. Confidence in not only lawyering skills but
also in day to day life will be built where one can put forward their
perspective and opinion on the basis of the quantity and the quality of the
the research they have conducted.
l3.Helps to arrive at conclusion
lThe method used in legal research involves the
obtaining of information on systematic basis and then
examining and evaluating it in order to arrive at some
conclusion. For example: broken-homes, poverty,
illiteracy, unemployment, loose parental control, abuse
and neglect, peer pressure are the major cause of
violence and illegal activities in the society such as
theft, robbery, rape, murder, kidnapping etc, may only
be a mere assumptions. They maybe entirely correct or
entirely incorrect, or correct only in certain fact-
conditions. Empirical research provides hard evidence
and data which obviously are basis of conclusions in
any theoretical research including legal research.
l 4. Basis of welfare of the state as a whole
Law is an instrument of development and legal research is one
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