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Guide to Foreign & Int'l Legal Databases

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ENGLAND/UNITED KINGDOM

Acts of Parliament (1996-present) and Statutory Instruments (1997-present)

Butterworths Direct  
Full text of statutes, laws, and  jurisprudence.  Fee based database. The library doesn't have a subscription.  See the library's collection policy.

BOPCRIS, the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service. You can use this web site to search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995.

British and Irish Legal Information Institute 
Comprehensive access to freely available British and Irish public legal information. Includes cases and legislations.

Current Legal Information 
The site is run by Sweet and Maxwell.  It  is a fee-based resource containing Legal Journals Index, Financial Journals Index and CLI Current Law Service, Current Law Cases, BADGER Grey Paper Index, Current Law Case Citator, Current Law Legislation Citator and Inns of Court Catalogues. The library doesn't have a subscription.  See the library's collection policy.

The Court Service 
An executive agency of the Lord Chancellor's Department and provides administrative support to a number of courts and tribunals. Go to Related Links and the Smith Bernal site to access   casebase, a free Court of Appeal transcript archive.

English Reports 1260 – 1865
In JUSTIS
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Fee-based database. IP access. English Reports in HeinOnline. Fee-based. IP access.

The Anglo-American Legal Tradition
Documents from Medieval to Early Modern England. Digitized and  displayed through The O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center by license of the National Archives sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center and by the University of Houston Department of History.

Eagle-i service
Electronic access to global legal information, created and edited by Steven Whittle.

Gazette
The most comprehensive guide to legal news, views, and information for lawyers practicing in England and Wales.

House of Lords  
Decisions from 1996-present.

Justis.com 
Contains the law reports, weekly law reports, Times law reports, Lloyds law reports, etc. Fee based. The library does not have a subscription.  See the library's collection policy.

Lord Chancellor's Department

Lloyd's Law Reports online
A password is required. An integrated legal research service covering maritime, insurance, arbitration, construction and intellectual property law. Brings together the latest issues and archive content from many of Informa's market leading publications, offers full search functionality to enable users to locate a case quickly or to draw on high level commentary and analysis when conducting in-depth research. All products are fully cross-referenced and can be searched across at the same time and individually.  i-law.com brings together Lloyd's Law Reports and Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter; LLR: Insurance & Reinsurance and Law of Insurance Contracts; and Building Law Reports and Construction Industry Law Letter along with leading Lloyd's Shipping Law Library books. The library has the reporter also in print.

The Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers
It provides legal advice and support to the Attorney General and the Solicitor General (the Law Officers). It may provide (at request) unpublished judgments of lower courts.

Law Commission 
Information on England and Wales. Contains executive summaries and the full texts of all recent reports and consultation papers, which can be browsed and/or downloaded. Law under review contains summaries of current official law reform projects.

LAWTEL Main Menu UK &  EU & Legal Journals Index
Legal database with fast, easy, intuitive access to the law. Offers a unique range of information from case law to legislation.
Lawtel EU
Lawtel UK
Lawtel Civil Procedure
Lawtel Human Rights
Lawtel Personal Injury
Lawtel UK Legislation

LEXIS
The academic subscription offers case law, statutes and statutory instruments of England and Wales, Halsbury's Laws of England, statutes and statutory instruments of Scotland.

Official Publications on the Internet 
Offers the full text or summary of selected documents prepared for the Internet by The Stationery Office. You may also find other official documents listed by category. The publications are arranged under Stationery Office publications.

Prime Minister's Office : 10 Downing Street 
Government reports and daily news.

Roger Horne's Miscellany  
Acts, Statutes, Selected Reports, and the Civil Procedure Rules.

Times Law Reports
Also includes ECJ and ECHR cases available through the Times Web Page.

The UK Statute Law Database
The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom. The content of SLD is available for viewing and private use free of charge, but please see the Crown Copyright notice.

Westlaw
UK Materials (cases, statutes, articles etc). Password needed.

Guides:
Update to A Guide to the UK Legal System  
By Sarah Carter.
LAWLINKS 
Legal information on the Internet. An annotated list of web sites compiled by Sarah Carter. See UK Resources.
Devolution in the United Kingdom: A Revolution on Online Legal Research 
By Stephen Young. 
Researching Primary Legislation of the United Kingdom
By Stephen Young
Where do you find this law report?
By Sarah Carter. This is a checklist of all the law reports series available via electronic services. For a list of services with their case law coverage see sources for Case Law.










This page was updated April 29, 2008