Web Links: United Kingdom
1. Research Guides and Gateway
A Guide to UK Legal System (Sarah Carter for LLRX)
Irish Legal Information Initiative (IRLII)
Maintained by the Faculty of Law, University College Cork. It features searchable index to Irish cases, periodical index, statutes and statutory instruments.
Jurist UK
Lawlinks: Legal Information on the Internet (University of Kent)
Portal to Legal Resources in the UK and Ireland (maintained by Delia Venables)
SOSIG - United Kingdom Law
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
provides free access to case law and legislation from British and Irish Courts and legislatures, with a single search engine and uniform data formats
2. Legislative Materials
Acts of Parliament
from 1996, equivalent of Public General Acts, and do not include subsequent amendments
Hansard (House of Commons Daily Debates)
from 1988
Hansard (House of Lords Debates)
from June 1996
House of Commons
Public Bills before Parliament
Statutory Instruments
UK Legislation
UK Statute Law Database
United Kingdom Parliament
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Assembly
Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
from 1998 in full text
Scotland
Scotland Legislation
Scottish Parliament
Wales
National Assembly for Wales
Wales Legislation
3. Courts/Caselaw
Court Service
- the Court Service is the executive agency of the Lord Chancellor's Department
- includes practice directions, notices of the Courts of Appeal, the High Court, the Crown Court, the County Courts, and Tribunals; and cases from the Courts of Appeal, and the High Court
- currently no charge, but the arrangement is under review
House of Lords
Index to the Daily Law Notes
- summary of recent and important cases from the House of Lords, the Privy council, the Court of Appeal and all divisions of the High Court.
Lord Chancellor's Department
Privy Council Judicial Committee Judgments
Scottish Court Service
- full-text court decisions. Decisions in Court of Session commercial cases are available from January 1998; other Court of Session cases are available from September 1998. Some criminal opinions of the High Court of Judiciary are included, as are Sheriff Court Cases and Fatal Accident Inquiries.
Social Security and Child Support Commissioners
- index to 1991-present decisions, selected full text from 1994 onwards
The Times
- from January 1, 1996
4. Government
UK Online
HMSO: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
House of Commons
The Law Commission
Stationery Office
- budgets, command papers (including White and Green papers), House of Commons Papers
United Kingdom Parliament
5. News
BBC News
Financial Times
Guardian
The Times
ABYZ News Links - UK
6. Law Schools and Libraries
UK Higher Education and Research Libraries
Bodleian Law Library, University of Oxford
Cambridge University Library
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
7. Law Societies and Organizations
The Bar Council
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