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United Kingdom

Bodleian Law Library

British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
British and Irish case law and legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material and links to other world resources.
 
Chancery Guide
A guide to litigation in the Chancery Division both at the Royal Courts of Justice in London and outside London. 

Civil Procedure Rules and Practice Directions
The court rules applicable to all civil courts in England and Wales, other than the House of Lords.

Companies Act 2006

Companies Act 2006 - Explanatory Notes  

Electronic Library and Information Services (eLIS)
This website provides a portal service to key legal information on the Internet. 

House of Lords Judgments on the House of Lords website
Lists of html version of all House of Lords judgments delivered since 14 November 1996.

Incorporated Council of Law Reporting
Publisher of the Official Law Reports.  The website gives access to a number of materials on a free basis.

Index to Legal Abbreviations
(database maintained by Cardiff University)

Inner Temple Library
(including catalogues of the other Inns of Court libraries)

Office of Public Sector Information: legislation
Legislation on the OPSI website is available as enacted in its original format and as revised text.

Privy Council, Judicial Committee

UK Statute Law Database
The UK Statute Law database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online.

Europe

Brussels News (from the Bar Council Brussels Office)

European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human rights HUDOC Portal.  It provides free online access to the case-law of the European Court of Human rights, the European Commission of Human rights and the Committee of Ministers.

European Law
Eur-Lex provides direct free access to European Union law.  The system makes it possible to consult the Official Journal of the European Union and it includes inter alia the treaties, legislation, case-law and legislative proposals.  It offers extensive search facilities.

Jersey Legal Information Board
The website includes all Laws in Force and Revised Laws, the Jersey Law Reports (as well as the Jersey Judgments from 1980), the Unreported Judgments of the Jersey Courts from 1997 to date, and Practice Directions of the Royal Court.

International

AccessToLaw
(a gateway site, providing annotated links to selected UK, Commonwealth and worldwide legal web sites)

Australasian Legal Information Institute

Canadian Legal Information Institute

Commonwealth Legal Information Institute

FLAG (Foreign Law Guide)
Database providing a gateway to foreign, international and comparative law collections held within U.K. university and national libraries.

Hong Kong Legal Information Institute

New Zealand Legal Information Institute

World Legal Information Institute