RESEARCH PROCESS AND STEPS IN LEGAL RESEARCH

Abstract

Research is an art of investigation to make progress. Hudson states the relevance of research for progress as, ―All progress is born of inquiry. Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention‖.51Research is a systematized effort to gain new knowledge.52 Research inculcates inductive thinking and scientific methods and it promotes the development of organization and logical habits of thinking.53 Again Young defines research as, ―Scientific undertaking, which by means of logical and systematized methods, aims to discover new facts or verify old facts, and to analyze their sequences, interrelationships, causal explanations and the natural terms which govern them‖.