Free Online Resources
- Free access to practical, evidence-based guidance on vulnerable witnesses and defendants
- Toolkits which provide advocates with general good practice guidance when preparing for trial in cases involving a witness or a defendant with communication needs
- A list of recent cases relevant to responding to vulnerable witnesses and defendants
- Publications and other resources relevant to responses to vulnerable witnesses and defendants
- Free access to British and Irish legal materials online
- Over 50 case law databases that cover both courts and tribunals
- Transcripts from courts in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, UK, Ireland, Jersey and Europe
- Links to world law resources covering Asia, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the USA and more
- Search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States
- Publications from over 295 jurisdictions
- Abbreviations covering international and comparative law
- Covers a wide selection of major foreign language law publications
- Free access, in the 24 official EU languages, to:
- The Official Journal of the European Union
- EU law (EU treaties, directives, regulations, decisions, consolidated legislation, etc.)
- Preparatory acts (legislative proposals, reports, green and white papers, etc.)
- EU case-law (judgements, orders, etc.)
- International agreements
- EFTA document and other public documents
- Allows you to follow legislative procedures
- Updated daily and contains more than 3 million items with some texts dating back to 1951
- Locate foreign, international and comparative law in the UK's academic, national and specialist law libraries
- Provides key information about collections of foreign primary law materials, including:
- Where to find foreign law in UK libraries
- Print or microform collections of primary law in serial publication (legislation, law reports, digests, etc)
- Collection descriptions and locations
- Library contact and access details
- A collection of international, foreign and comparative law research tools
- Guides and articles written by scholars well known in their respective fields
- Case-law of the Court, including Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments, decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-Law Information Note
- Decisions and reports of the European Commission of Human Rights and the resolutions of the Committee of Ministers
- Press releases issued by the Registry since 1 January 1999, available in English and French
- ALL legislation from 1988 to present day
- Most pre-1988 primary legislation
- In some cases only the original published (as enacted) version is available
- Legislation from around the world freely accessible online
- More than 70,000 links to legal sites in over 180 countries
- Organised alphabetically by country
- Includes an array of different areas of law (administrative, civil, commercial, etc.) as well as constitutional and human rights laws, and a list of law sources
- A video archive of past hearings that complements the court's existing live streaming service
- View Current cases or Decided cases and access the morning and/or afternoon sessions on the dates that the case was heard
- Over 14,000 treaties involving the UK
- Research the existence of treaties
- Find important information, such as the place and date of signature and entry into force date
- See which states or organisations participate in them
- Information on the status of over 500 major multilateral instruments deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Includes the texts of reservations, declarations and objections
- Covers a range of subject matter such as human rights, disarmament, commodities, refugees, the environment and the law of the sea
- A single search facility for over 270 databases from 48 jurisdictions in 20 countries
- Decisions of international Courts and Tribunals, a number of Asian countries, and from South Africa
- Case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, law journals, and other materials are included
