ESSENTIAL CRITERIAS FOR EVALUATING LEGAL RESEARCH THROUGH INTERNET

‘Research’ is an enquiry for the verification of a fresh theory or for supplementing prevailing

theories by new knowledge. No research can be purely new, as even original discoveries are

an extension of the search already undertaken, being shaped generally as expressing

agreement or refutation or plain addition. “Legal research” is not essentially different from

other types of research. This too is search for authority to verify some hypothesis and is a

continuum. Its issues of enquiry naturally relate to pure law or law in relation to society