Law

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects, and dissertations in Law.

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Introduction to Legal Databases (video)
This quick video will describe what legal databases are available from the library and where to access the legal databases. The video will also discuss why it's important to become familiar with and utilise all of the legal databases.

British and Irish case law & legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.


• CanLII 

Canadian Legal Information Institute. What will you find on CanLII: legal cases, legislation, and commentary.


• EUR-Lex 

The online gateway to EU Law. It provides the official and most comprehensive access to EU legal documents including treaties, legal acts from EU institutions, preparatory documents related to EU legislation, EU case-law, international agreements, and EFTA documents.


The National Archives service provides public access to Court Judgments and Tribunal decisions.


• HUDOC 

European Court of Human Rights Case Law.


• ICLR 

Cover cases decided by the following courts and tribunals: The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, The Court of Justice of the European Union, The Court of Appeal (Civil Division), The Court of Appeal (Criminal Division), The Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court (including the Divisional Court), The Chancery Division of the High Court, The Family Division of the High Court, The Court of Protection, The Employment Appeal Tribunal, The Upper Tribunal, The Court Martial Appeal Court, The Consistory Court, The Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved, The Chancery Court of York


The official report of all parliamentary debates.


Cases and journal articles from international jurisdictions.


• ZETOC 

Journal articles, conference proceedings.

 

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 Mystery Beck

Faculty Librarian

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