Caselaw (free)

[see also Courts and Tribunals and under the subject area]

British and Irish Legal Information Institute

www.bailii.org

Comprehensive collection of British and Irish caselaw (in most courts) going back to around 1997; fully searchable and partially cross-hyperlinked. Indispensable.

World Legal Information Institute

www.worldlii.org

Huge collection of caselaw from around the world and lots of other materials and news; fully searchable and partially cross hyperlinked.

Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales

www.iclr.co.uk

New site for the ICLR now offers less information than before but still useful for free and good case summaries from 2009, searchable database of all cases reported in every ICLR series and updated list of Supreme Court leave application decisions.

Scottish Council of Law Reporting

www.scottishlawreports.org.uk

Indeed, a link to this very same site. A useful resource providing access, via Justis, to a selected database of Scottish cases provided as an open access resource.

Supreme Court Decisions

www.supremecourt.gov.uk

At long last, decisions of the highest court can be easily accessed and searched on this very convenient site.

David Swarbrick

www.swarb.co.uk/liscindex.shtml

This is a link to the free pages containing selected caselaw indexed by subject area. A rather larger database of up-to-date caselaw, maintained by the same organisation, can be accessed from here, at a price.

Cardiff University: legal abbreviations

www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/index.jsp

Neat simple award-winning site: search by title of journal or by abbreviation.