Research Hub
Finding authority properly — with a research method, verified authorities, and unverified leads clearly separated from them.
The playbook the page opens with — a dependable legal research method:
- 1Frame the question.
- 2Find the authority.
- 3Check its status and how it has been treated since.
- 4Keep a research trail.
- 5Read it before you cite it.
Type a topic, or use a quick-search suggestion, and Durmah returns the key legal issues, a source verification note, and the verified authorities — each with its role, citation, source link and the principle it carries.
Unverified research leads appear in a separate, clearly-marked panel. They are starting points, not authority. The distinction is the whole point of the page: a leading case and something that merely mentions your topic are not the same kind of thing, and a tool that blurs them is teaching you a bad habit.
Open Research Hub from inside an assignment and it prefills your query and offers to save the authorities straight into your assignment's research notes, then returns you to the workflow where you left it.
Keep going
Source Pack and Argument Map
Two structured tools that sit alongside the workflow — a proper record of what you are relying on, and your reasoning as a structure you can see.
The six-stage assignment workflow
Where a piece of assessed work lives from the moment you receive the brief to the moment before you submit — with Durmah as a tutor, not a writer.
The Durmah Lexicon™
Legal vocabulary is not decoration — it is the medium. The Lexicon is a spaced-recall system for the words your own lectures actually used.
Still stuck?
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Durmah is an independent study platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of any university. Everything in this manual describes study support for legal education. It is not legal advice. Where this manual and your module handbook disagree, your module handbook is authoritative.