Doctrinal approach (Exploring legal meaning)
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Doctrinal research lies at the heart of any lawyer’s task because it is the research process used to identify, analyse and synthesise the content of the law.
Hutchinson, T. (2018) ‘Doctrinal research: researching the jury’, in Watkins, D. and Burton, M. (eds) Research methods in law. 2nd edn. London: Routledge (pp. 8–39 (at p. 13))
Explain the key features of the doctrinal approach and critically evaluate its strengths and weaknesses as an approach to exploring legal meaning.
Question 2
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Describe how you used online resources to identify and access relevant information for Question 1. Do you think your approach to this research worked well or not? Explain your reasoning.
Include reflection on this process – what did you find easy or hard? What did or didn’t work well.
