U.K. Legal Resources

For more resources, visit the U.K. Law tab of our Comparative Law research guide.

Resources that are freely available (websites members of the public can use) are marked with an asterisk (*).

Cases

• Lexis+ (law students only)
  • Non-law UNB/STU: use campus-wide Quicklaw
  • Change the search box jurisdiction to U.K.
• Westlaw Edge (law students only)
  • Click International tab
• U.K. Supreme Court* (2009–present)
• BAILII* (British & Irish Legal Information Institute) (case law and legislation from the U.K. and Ireland)
• JustisOne (contains reported and unreported civil and criminal judgments from England and Wales)
• ICLR.3 (contains every case published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales, an archive of unreported case law, and citator information)
• English Reports, Full Reprint (1220–1867) (via HeinOnline)
• CommonLII: English Reports* (1220–1873)
• LLMC-Digital (contains full-text historical U.K. case law)
• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey* (digitized collection of proceedings from London's central criminal court from 1674–1913)
• Reports of Patent, Design and Trade Mark Cases (via Oxford University Press Journals Online)

Legislation

• Lexis+ (law students only)
  • Non-law UNB/STU: use campus-wide Quicklaw
  • Change the search box jurisdiction to U.K.
• Westlaw Edge (law students only)
  • Click International tab
• Legislation.gov.uk* (legislation from 1267–present)
• Bills & Legislation* (via U.K. Parliament*)
• Statutes of the Realm (1235–1713) (via HeinOnline)
• BAILII* (British & Irish Legal Information Institute) (case law and legislation from the U.K. and Ireland)
• JustisOne (provides access to all U.K. statutes dating back to 1235)

Government Documents

• U.K. Parliament*
• Hansards* (1803–2005; incomplete) (via Millbank Systems)
• Hansards* (1802–present) (via U.K. Parliament*)
• Parliament Rolls of Medieval England (PROME) (full-text of the meetings of the English Parliaments from 1275–1504)