Westlaw [electronic resource].
Access to the full text of cases and legislation for UK materials, some EU and International documentation plus considerable US resources. It incorporates the Legal Journals Index and the Case and Legislation Citators.

Westlaw UK Tutorial

Lexis Library [electronic resource].
UK Cases (including the All England Reports), UK Journals and Newspapers.
International Legal Materials includes access to an extensive collection of US law journals.

Lexis Library Research Certification webpage

Lawtel [electronic resource].
Good for daily updates to legal issues, details of green and white papers, and searchable database of all legislation, also contains links to the full text of Acts from 1990, a 20 year archive based on major law reportsand details of unreported cases.

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations

A search engine and index of abbreviations of legal publications from over 295 jurisdictions

Glossary of Legal Terms (HM Court Service)

For meaning for legal terms and latin terms used in court.

Halsbury's Law of England
A useful tutorial on how to use the print addition of this encyclopaedia for researching a specific legal topic.

Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales
A tutorial explaining how to use these tools for finding current legislation in force.

ASSIA [electronic resource].
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts). Covers English language journals in applied social sciences. Includes health, economics, social issues & social policy, organisational behaviour and communication.

Bailii: British and Irish Legal Information Institute [electronic resource].
Access to freely available UK and EU primary legal material and links to other world
collections through WORLDLII. Coverage varies - cases back to 1996, legislation to
1988.

EGI: Estates Gazette Interactive [electronic resource].
Property market news and information.

IBSS [electronic resource].
Updated weekly, with data going back to 1951. IBSS Online (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) contains references to over 2400 selected journals and 7000 books per year.

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK), Arts and Humanities Citation Index, BIDS-ISI [electronic resource].
References,citations, selected abstracts. Includes Science Citation Index expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present. Covers over 9000 scholarly research journals and is updated weekly. Includes:
SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX:
Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts [electronic resource].
From the U.S. Department of Justice, this deals with aspects of law enforcement including drug control, terrorism and fraud at both federal and state level. Please note : it does NOT deal with legislation or court reports.

RefWorks [electronic resource].
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

Sociological Abstracts [electronic resource].
Covers international sources of references and summaries of journal articles, book extracts etc. from 1963 for social structure and social problems, inequalities and behavioural sciences.

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Business Source Premier [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Provides full-text for approximately 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and marketing. Includes Dun & Bradstreet company information.

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

These are arranged in alphabetical order of title in the Law Reference Collection.
Titles which are no longer current are marked ( * ) please check the catalogue for the available years.
Titles also available on Westlaw or LexisLibrary are marked (W) or (LL)

• All England Law Reports ( LL )
• Appeal cases - See law reports

• British Company Case ( * ) ( W )
• British International Law Cases ( * )
• Building Law Reports
• Butterworths Medico - Legal Reports ( LL )

• Commerical Cases ( * )
• Commercial Law Cases ( W )
• Common Market Law Reports & Anti Trust Reports ( W )
• Comparative Law Yearbook
• Copyright Cases ( * )
• Cox`s Criminal Law Cases ( * )
• Criminal Appeal Reports ( & Sentencing ) ( W )
• Current law ( statutes, Yearbooks and citators ) ( W )

• English Reports ( * ) (LL) ( W )
• Environmental Law Reports ( W )
• Estates Gazette digest of cases ( * )
• Estates Gazette Law Reports( LL )
• European Commission/Court of Human Rights - Judgments & Decisions ( # )
• European Human Rights Reports ( W )

• Family division - See Law Reports
• Family Law Reports ( LL )
• Fleet Street ( Patent ) Law Reports continued as Fleet Street Reports ( * ) ( W )

• Hansard - Parliamentary Debates ( * ) ( # )
• Housing Law Reports ( W )

• Industrial Cases Reports ( W )
• Industrial Relations Law Reports ( LL )
• Industrial Tribunal Reports ( LL )
• International Court of Justice - Reports ( # )
• International Law Reports ( W )
• International Legal Materials ( W )

• King`s Bench - See Law Reports
• Knights Industrial Reports ( * ) ( LL )
• Knights Local Government Reports ( * )

• Landlord and Tenant Reports ( W )
• Law Commission Reports (1965 -79 ONLY) see Catalogue for Latest Titles.
• Law Journal Reports ( * )

• Law Reports - All The "Official" Law Reports as filed here as follows :

• Admiralty ( W ) ( LL )
• Appeal Cases ( W ) (LL)
• Chancery Appeals ( * ) ( W ) ( LL )
• Chancery Division ( W ) ( LL )
• Common pleas ( * ) ( W ) ( LL )
• English & Irish Appeals ( * ) ( W )
• Equity cases ( * ) ( W ) ( LL )
• Exchequer ( * ) ( W ) ( LL )
• Family Division ( W ) ( LL )
• King`s Bench (1901 - 1952 ) ( W ) ( LL )
• Law Times Reports ( First AND Second Series )( * )( LL )
• Queen`s Bench (1865 - 1900 ) ( W ) ( LL )
• Queen`s Bench ( 1952 - ) ( W ) ( LL )
• Privy Council ( W )
• Probate Division ( * ) ( W ) ( LL )
• Lloyds (List) Law Reports ( * ) ( W )

• Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) ( * ) ( # )
• Planning Law Reports ( * )
• Property, Planning & Compensation Reports (W)

• Queen`s Bench - See Law Reports

• Rating Appeals ( LL )
• Reports of Patent Cases ( * ) ( W )( LL )
• Reports of State Trials ( * )
• Road Traffic Reports ( * ) ( W )

• Tax cases ( * )
• Times law reports ( * ) ( LL )
• Weekly Law Reports ( W )

• Yearbook of European Law

Additional reports are available on the Westlaw, Lexis Library, Lawtel, & Bailli Databases .

Sept 2010

Citing the Law
A tutorial guide to citing the law using the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA).

How to do your Referencing: the OSCOLA System (Law Resources) 2010

OSCOLA: Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authories. 4th ed.

OSCOLA Quick Reference Guide

OSCOLA 2006: Citing International Law Sources Section

Access to Law
Quality legal resources selected by the Inner Temple Library.

Compact Law
Useful summaries for key areas of the law and useful links to free advice, fact sheets and sample forms. (Formerly " Law Rights ")

Eagle-I Electronic access to global legal information

High quality web resources for legal studies and research developed by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Findlaw (USA)
Practitioner and student resources worldwide. Keyword searching possible.

Hieros Gamos (USA)
Comprehensive - good links to other jurisdictions and organizations but can be slow due to size. Searchable by subject and language.

Infolaw
UK directories for lawyers on the Web and a good Lawfinder service for primary legislation.

Internet for Lawyers
Web-based tutorial which teaches the use of the Web for law and provides tips for students and lecturers.

Jurist (UK Version)
Legal education network based at Pittsburgh University.

Law Dictionaries
General and specialist dictionaries, e.g. crime and human rights but not comprehensive in depth.

Lawlinks (University of Kent)

Probably the best UK academic site - to be recommended as the prime resource for initial research.
For best results - use this

Legal Resources in the UK & Ireland
Mainly for practitioners, but has useful list of new sites & organisations and section on student resources.

LexisWeb - Gateway to UK Legal Content

A ) References and Citations

See the Case Locators within WESTLAW

B ) Summaries

Daily Law Notes
Case summaries arranged by subject from the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting.

C ) Full Text Sources

BAILII (British & Irish Legal Information Institute)
Free access to full text primary materials in UK cases from 1996 and legislation from 1988.

Privy Council Office (Judicial Committee)
Comprehensive coverage from 1999 onwards, prior to that only selected cases.

Public Bills before Parliament
Alphabetical listing of bills from both house allowing you to check their progress.

United Kingdom Legislation
Public and local acts and S.I`s ( incl. drafts ) Full text back to 1991. ( n.b. documents are unamended.)

ADR

CEDR - The Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution
Mediation developments in business and the public sector.

London Court of International Arbitration
Rules, mediation procedure etc. for international dispute resolution.

Civil Procedure

Civil Justice Council
Reviews the civil justice system, reports on meetings etc.

Ministry of Justice
Court forms, guides, rules, directions etc.

Commercial Law (including Trade)

Lex Mercatoria
International site with comprehensive subject coverage.

Computer & Internet Law

Society for Computers and Law
Access to the journal, issues on e-commerce.

Consumer Law

DTI - Consumer Affairs Directorate
Department of Trade & Industry`s background to consumer policy, legislation and its enforcement.

Office of Fair Trading
Consultation documents, information on consumers` rights

Criminal Law

Criminal Justice System
Latest news and reports and link to Juror Online for a tour of Crown Courts.

Proceedings of the of Old Bailey 1674 - 1834
Accounts of criminal trials in full. Not all years yet available.

LSBU Criminal Policy Research Unit
Includes lecture notes made available for 3 months and details of current research.

UK Criminal Justice Web Links
Excellent academic site with links to European and US sources.

E-Commerce

DTI - Communications & Information Industries Directorate
Links to relevant UK legislation.

European Commission - Information Society (Directorate - General)
Information on domain ownership, electronic signatures, intellectual property rights etc.

Global E-Commerce Law
E-commerce law resources from Baker & McKenzie.

Employment Law

British Employment Law
Free section has an alphabetical listing of all aspects of the subject, also further links and readings.

Employment Appeal Tribunal
Judgments, rules and procedures.

Family Law

CAFCASS (Children & Family Court Advisery & Support Service)
Newly developing site supporting a more child-focussed court procedure for family proceedings.

Human Rights

Campaign for Freedom of Information
Information to challenge unnecessary secrecy of information.

European Court of Human Rights
Basic texts, case law ( including pending cases ) - use HUDOC to search for documents. Links to European Convention on Human Rights.

Human and Constitutional Rights

Based at Columbia Law School, this contains country reports, international sources and major documents.

Human Rights Internet
Promotes support and networking for staff in ngo sectors.

Human Rights Research Project
Based in doughty street chambers this is good for up to date statistics and research papers.

Human Rights Unit
Section of the Home Office charged with implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 into UK law.

Liberty
Use site index to select "H" for major cases and articles.

Statewatch

Civil liberties and justice in Europe. (See also the "Observatories" section for Freedom of Information in the EU.)

United Nations Human Rights
Subject index available ( see "Human Rights Issues" ) and all documents issued since 1994 are in the Charter-based bodies section.

Immigration Law

Tribunals cervice - Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber
Access to Case law database containing determinations of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal and the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.

International Law

FLAG - Foreign Law Guide
Locations of material on foreign and international law in UK university and national libraries.

International Court of Justice
Basic documents and Decisions of the Court back to 1947.

International Humanitarian Law
Access to treaties, conventions and commentaries.

Martindale Hubbell International Law Digest
Requires initial registration but is free.

Max Planck Institute for International Law

Articles on public international law, comparative law.

UN Treaty Collection
Limited access to major documents but does link to other U.N. departments.

Property Law

British Property Federation
Includes model forms for leases and codes of practice in the publications section.

Women and the Law

Feminist Jurisprudence
Material from the US constitution.

Women`s Human Rights Resources
Includes a bibliography, links to other web sites and to some full-text documents, e.g. UN conventions and n.g.o. reports. Use site map for best results.

Court Service
Provides guides, forms and practice directions

Criminal Cases Review Commission
Investigations into alleged miscarriages of justice.

Crown Prosecution Service
Information on the work of CPS, its charter and codes.

Government Actuary`s Department
The Ogden Tables (Personal Injury and Fatal Accident Cases) are listed under "other" services.

Direct Gov.
Access to information on both central and local government departments. Use Quick Find for best results.

Law Commission
Latest law reform proposals ("Law under Review" section) and full text of consultation papers and reports under the Library option.

Legal Services Commission
New public body to administer the Community Legal Service and the Criminal Defence Service.

Ministry of Justice - Civil Procedure Rules Homepage (formerly Department of Constitutional Affairs
Civil procedure rules and consultation papers on the new administration of justice.

Independent Police complaints Commision
IPCC reports, guidelines and research available

Polis (Parlimentary Online Indexing service)
Indexes both editions of Hansard and contains useful fact sheets on procedure and structure.

Privy Council
Includes Orders in Council from October 2000 in the Secretariat section

Tagish (Central & Local Government)
Local government by region and councils.

U.K. Parliament
Includes access to Hansard and links to official publications. Also House of Lords judgments from 11/1996.

UK Official Publications
Full text of Acts, Bills, Consultative Documents, Green papers etc. and links to other government sites.

UK Supreme Court

Eurlex (European Commission)
Access to major treaties, some key documents and draft legislation and to the Official Journal for 2 months.

Europa (the European Union Online)
Comprehensive information on the institutions, links to official documents and sources of information.

European Court of Justice & Court of First Instance
Recent case law.

European Judicial Network
Freedom, security, judicial co-operation and extradition treaties.

Legislative Observatory (European Parliament)
Provides a tracking device for the progress of draft legislation through the various European institutions.

PreLex
Traces the procedural stages of adoption of information from the European Commission
to other institutions.

Adminet
French legal resources including the codes, official texts and background to French justice.

AUSTLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
Full text of Australian and NZ cases and legislation. Coverage varies. Excellent help screens.

CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute)
National and state primary legal materials.

FLAG (Foreign Law Guide Project
A guide to the content of foreign law resources in UK academic and national libraries.

German Law in English
Legislation, court reports, information on public bodies.

Spanish Law
Selection of sites in English and Spanish and links to the constitution.

Thomas - Legislative Information on the Internet
Library of Congress web site to advise on the progress of activities of congress, committees and legislation.

WorldLii (World Legal Information Institute)
Case law, legislation, conferences and access to some international research papers.

Bar Council
Information on training pathways within the profession.

Consilio
Online magazine for students with news and careers information.

Commonwealth Legal Education Association
Resources, news and developments including a good section on Human Rights.

Law Careers Net
Trainee Solicitors` Group input. Details of training contracts and a listing of law firm brochures.

Law Society
Guide to legal education and training and continuing professional services plus access to the Gazette and the Solicitors Online service.

Mooting Net
Information about the mooting exercise and news from the various competitions.

UK Centre for Legal Education
Supports teaching, learning and assessment in law as part of the Learning and Teaching Support Network of subject centres. Incorporates the work of the National Centre for Legal Education and the CTI Law Technology Centre.

Butterworths
Routledge Law - Taylor & Francie Group.
Incorporated Council of Law Reporting
Jordans
Oxford University Press
Sweet & Maxwell

Guardian Law
For law news, comment, analysis and blogs.

Please advise me of any errors or alterations as these Web sites are subject to change. I have not attempted to provide a comprehensive listing of all web sites in each category, as this is done admirably by LAWLINKS in the Gateways section at the start.