Employment Law Research Guide

It can be useful to search for recent discussion of employment law decisions in blogs, current awareness updates and other commentary sources from the legal profession that have been made available via the web.  For example many law firms that are engaged in employment litigation will publish updates on current employment law issues or reflect or report and reflect on recent case law.

You can use an advanced google search to target your online searching at this material.

For example, you can target law firm sites by search for site:co.uk.   If you searched site:org.uk you would find material from employment law related organisations such as ACAS, the Law Society, Citizen's Advice etc.

Take a look at these sample searches for an idea of how to produces targeted searches

unfair dismissal site:org.uk

employment AND discrimination site:org.uk

employment law blog site:co.uk

employment cases site:co.uk

employment law latest site:co.uk

Use the Advanced Google Search options to target your search.  

Region

• Find pages published in a particular region.
• Useful looking at impact of topics and research in different areas of the world
• Select from the drop down menu

Site or domain

• Search across a website (will only work for website which Google can crawl)
• Search one site (like wikipedia.org ) or limit your results to a domain like .edu, .org or .gov
• Just add your site/domain to the search box
• You can view a list of different counties URL and domains here.

Terms appearing

• Search for terms in the whole page, page title or web address, or links to the page you're looking for.
• Select an option from the drop down menu

File Type

• Search for pages in the file format that you prefer.
• Select an option from the drop down menu
• Includes the following which can be useful for grey literature materials

• Adobe Acrobat PDF
• Mitrosoft Excel / Word/ Powerpoint

Tip

You can also use these options with their search operators within the usual search box rather than using the advanced search and drop down menus, e.g employment law blog site:co.uk