Law

The OSCOLA Guide (4th ed) does not include international law. Use the guidance from the 2006 edition.

A collection of various legal sources. Useful for law, international relations, political and historical studies but with strong American bias although it does include the English Reports, covering important cases reported before the Official Law Reports started in 1865 and Statutes of the Realm 1235-1713

Primary and secondary legal resources, plus UK newspapers.

Primary and secondary legal resources plus EU materials.

Academic peer-reviewed journal articles, professional publications and more across all business topics. 

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Detailed market research reports on a range of UK sectors including: automotive; beauty and personal care; lifestyles; drink, food and foodservice; health and wellbeing; leisure; media; technology; and travel. Also includes access to Mintel Trends which provides evidence-backed insights on how today's consumer thinks, feels and acts.

Video support:

1. Using Mintel Reports
2. Using the Interactive Databook

The new interface for S&P (previously known as Market Intelligence/SNL Unlimited) includes most Capital IQ (standard) financial data, as well as banking information, news and analytics and information on millions of private companies. 

To access:

1. Ensure third party cookies are enabled in your browser and sign in with your university username and password.
2. If you cannot see the login screen and get an error message, please check this FAQ.

Access to more than a million statistics from many different sources. Useful for finding industrial, economic and consumer market statistical trends.

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

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

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.

European Court of Human Rights Case Law.

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 is a database of the tables of contents from journals held by the British Library. It has a search function or you can select any journal held by the BL and have the table of contents emailed to you as soon as a new issue is published.

The official report of all parliamentary debates.

Use this service to find contact details for court and tribunal venues.

Includes information on judgments, orders, and sentencing remarks.

All criminal cases start in a magistrates’ court and normally handles cases known as ‘summary offences’ but it can also deal with some of the more serious offences.

Find decisions on Employment Tribunal cases in England, Wales and Scotland from February 2017 onwards.

Hears cases where a child who is the subject of legal proceedings must be protected and this protection is not possible under the Children Act 1989. See also Family Division of the High Court (GOV.UK) for more information.

PressReader lets you access UK and international newspapers, plus a wide range of magazine content. Everything is full colour with archives varying in length depending on the publication.

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Command and act papers from the UK Government.

The statutory independent body to keep the law of England and Wales under review and to recommend reform where it is needed.

The supreme legislative body for the UK, British Crown Dependiencies, and British Overseas Territories.

The official report of all parliamentary debates.

Committees consider policy issues, scrutinise government work, expenditure, and examine proposals for primary and secondary legislation.

The UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics. Responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional, and local levels.

Data from a number of years which you can download and manipulate into graphs etc.

The latest incarnation of the above

Official statistics from the UK Government.

Australia’s national statistical agency. An official source of independent, reliable information.

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data.

The United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. The mission of BJS is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.

Ireland's national statistical office and our purpose is to impartially collect, analyse and make available statistics about Ireland’s people, society and economy.

The agency ensures Canadians have the key information on Canada's economy, society and environment that they require to function effectively as citizens and decision makers.

non-ministerial body responsible for criminal prosecutions.

ministerial department responsible for immigration, security, and law and order.

a Parliamentary Select Committee with remit to consider human rights issues in the UK.

ministerial department responsible for areas of constitutional policy, human rights law and information rights law.

The supreme legislative body for the UK, British Crown Dependiencies, and British Overseas Territories.

The Council of Europe is the continent's leading human rights organisation. It includes 47 member states, 27 of which are members of the European Union.

Complete list of the Council of Europe's treaties.

The text of the Convention is presented as amended by the provisions of Protocol No. 14 (CETS no. 194) as from its entry into force on 1 June 2010.

Available in print in the Law Reference Collection.

Official website.

European Court of Human Rights Case Law.

European Court of Human Rights Case Law.

Primary and secondary legal resources, plus UK newspapers.

Primary and secondary legal resources plus EU materials.

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

Official website. Includes case law.

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.

Primary and secondary legal resources, plus UK newspapers.

Primary and secondary legal resources plus EU materials.

A database of digitised UK doctoral theses offering free online access to theses of participating Higher Education institutions.

Europe E-theses Portal.

PhD level theses, including Prof Docs and MPhils, written by Portsmouth students, printed copies - 2013 and earlier.

Library and Archives Canada database.

National Library of Australia’s Trove database.

The world’s largest aggregator of open access research papers from repositories and journals.

Brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

A community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.

The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages

Publishes some of the most dynamic research in humanities disciplines today: from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history, to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities.

Browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features.

Australia's online free-access resource for Australian legal information. AustLII maintains its own collections of primary materials: legislation and court judgments ("case law") and secondary materials: commentaries and summaries on the law.

The authorised whole-of-government website for Commonwealth legislation and related documents. It contains the full text and details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them.

Provides access to court judgments from all Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, federal courts, and the courts in all Canada’s provinces and territories.

The online source of the consolidated Acts and regulations of Canada.

Transcripts of case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union and General Court of the European Union.

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.

European Court of Human Rights Case Law.

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

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

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

Carries most (but not all) types of UK legislation and their accompanying explanatory documents.

Use the searches to find written opinions for individual cases from: High Court, Court of Session, Fatal Accident Inquiries, Sheriff Court, Sheriff Appeal Court - Criminal, Sheriff Appeal Court - Civil, All-Scotland Personal Injury Court.

Provides public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Includes an extensive database of federal cases.

Provides open access to legal materials. Resources include: annotated version of the constitution, federal statutes, Supreme Court decisions, CFR, and more.