Useful Web Resources for Law
Legal
- Deaf Lawyers UK
http://www.deaflawyers.org.uk/blawg/
A website that looks at issues relating to Deaf lawyers, as well as Deaf issues within the legal system. - Electronic Information System
for International Law (EISIL)
http://www.eisil.org/
More than just a finding guide, the Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) can be used in classroom, law firm and non-legal environments as an educational or instructional tool. - FindLaw Online Legal Resources
http://www.findlaw.com/ - Guide to the UK Legal System
http://www.llrx.com/features/uk.htm -
Law Commission
http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/ - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey,
London 1674 to 1913
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org
A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, will eventually accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London"s central criminal court. - FLAG (Foreign law guide)
http://ials.sas.ac.uk/flag.htm
Other libraries may hold useful information on foreign law. FLAG is a collaborative Internet gateway to the holdings of foreign, international and comparative law in UK universities and national libraries.
Legal Directories
- Legal Directories on the
WWW
www.venables.co.uk/director.htm - Legal 500
http://www.icclaw.com/
This directory from the International Centre for Commercial Law is considered to be the definitive guide to the legal market in over 60 countries. This database of recommended law firms can be searched by country and area, by name, speciality and size of firm. - European Legal 500 International
Centre for Commercial Law
http://www.icclaw.com/lfe/europe.htm - solicitors-online.com
www.solicitors-online.com
An online resource provided by the Law Society to trace solicitors/firms - lawyerlocator.co.uk
http://www.lawyerlocator.co.uk/
Use LawyerLocator to find a solicitor or law firm throughout the United Kingdom. - Martindale.com
http://www.martindale.com/Find-Lawyers-and-Law-Firms.aspx
Use this locator to find a lawyer by name; specify location, area of practice, firm, legal agency or law school faculty
Legal Education
- UK Law Schools
http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/resources_fac.php - Jurist The Legal Education
Network
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/
Legal Profession societies, etc.
- Law Society
http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/
Publications
- The Lawyer
http://www.the-lawyer.co.uk - In Brief
http://www.inbrief.co.uk/ - Law Gazette
http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/homeframe.asp - LawTalk the information
resource for lawyers
http://www.lawtalk.co.uk
Government
- The Stationery Office
http://www.hmso.gov.uk - Acts of UK Parliament
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga - UK Statutory Instruments
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi - UK Government Gateway
http://www.open.gov.uk/cctagis/whatsnew.htm - UKOP
http://www.ukop.co.uk/info/index.html
Other
- Social
Science Research Network (SSRN)
http://www.ssrn.com/
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. - Oxford English Dictionary online
- lawdictionaries.com
http://www.lawdictionaries.com/ - Oxford Reference Online
Newspapers
- Times
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/ - Sunday Times
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/ - Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ - Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/ - Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ - Financial Times
FT.com - Newspapers in the Robinson Library
