Foreign Law by Jurisdiction: England/United Kingdom

1996-present

Bluebook Table T42.1 permits citations to the Weekly Law Reports, the All ER and other unofficial sources for English cases if you case is not in the official reporters. Cites to All ER are provided in ICLR online (see below). Full text is available in Lexis Advance (not PDF, but with star paging).

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.

All Content: Global Law: Europe: United Kingdom. Includes material in two categories, corporate filings and courts (filings, hearings, judgments, transcripts, decisions, reported cases).

Includes British Official Publications for the period of 1688-1995.

Comprehensive access to freely available British and Irish public legal information. Includes cases and legislation.

An executive agency of the Lord Chancellor's Department and provides administrative support to a number of courts and tribunals.

A free to use dedicated portal to high quality legal information sources on the Web - being developed by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies as a national service for law.

Halsbury's Laws is an authoritative encyclopedia of law in England and Wales, arranged by subject, with several indexes and updating services. It is particularly useful if you are researching a new area of law and need to find the most important cases, legislation and commentary in that area.

This site is generated from information from Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. Information presented here is generated from the publicly available XML files. Material on this site remains under Parliamentary Copyright. Within these copyright constraints, you are encouraged to use and to explore the information provided. There's Hansard itself; by volume, just the Lords sittings, Commons sittings or Westminster Hall sittings. You can also view Written Answers, Written Statements, Lords reports or Grand Committee reports.

HCPP now includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. HCPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing. You have access to the following collections: 18th century (1688-1834); 19th century (1801-1900); 20th century (1901-2003/04 session); 21st century module 1 (2004/05 – 2009/10 sessions).

Decisions from 1996-present.

ICLR Online has searchable texts and PDFs of the English Law Reports, Weekly Law Reports, Industrial Cases Reports and Digests, Business Law Reports and Digests, Public and Third Sector Law Reports and Digests, Appeal Cases, Chancery Division, Family Division, and Queens Bench Division. Also includes Citator+.

Includes law about trademarks, patents, designs and copyright.

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

Cases from England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Statutes and statutory instruments and tax statutes and statutory instruments from England and Wales, including taxation instruments that contain double taxation agreements to which the UK is a party. Isle of Man Statutes (Acts of Tynwald) (not current). See Source Information notes for coverage.

Lexis Library provides full-text access to legal, tax and accountancy information. This includes many U.K. reported and unreported cases, legislation, and a number of U.K. legal journals. Commentary includes Halsbury’s Laws of England, among other titles. LexisLibrary includes the International Tax Law Reports, which is a very unique source that provides readers with judgments and decisions of major tax cases from all over the world, translated into English. The service includes Lexis Tax & Accountancy (formerly Butterworths Tax News Online and Tax Libraries Online). Connect to Lexis Library and choose the 'Practice Areas' tab. Then click on the Tax & Accountancy option.

1997-present

Click the JustisOne link, then Advanced Search>Legislation. Note: Latest Revision takes you to texts in the free legislation.gov.uk database. The Julius page linked here has more details about the NYU Law Library's online collection of English primary law.

Click the JustisOne link, then Advanced Search>Cases>United Kingdom Judgments. These are as-announced judgments, some of which will be reported and some unreported. The Julius page linked linked here has more details about the NYU Law Library's online collection of English primary law.

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Start with a case or legislation in JustisOne and the database will point you to related authorities. Cited Cases and Cited Legislation point to treatment of other authorities in the text of your case or legislation. Citing Cases links to cases that have cited yours, including cases that have treated your case negatively or positively. Categories links to cases on the same topics. The Precedent Map gives a visual representation of how legally similar cases are and which ones are likely to be most relevant to your research. For legislation, Amended Items links to items affected by your legislation and Amending Items links to all items that have had an effect on your legislation.

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Microform. Includes not only treaties, but also diplomatic correspondence, official notes, and other international legal material from 1373 through 1974.

Print resource. This index covers all British multilateral treaties, indexed by subject and bilateral treaties, indexed by country and subject.

Treaties from 1892 to present. Includes annual and cumulative indexes.