The abbreviations “FC” and “PA” stand for “Funded Client” and “Person Assisted”, respectively. They designate a party receiving legal aid – the first for cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland and the second for cases from Scotland. You can use the main search box on the home page to search for cases. However, for more search options, you can use the Main Cases search screen. The directories, precursors of modern legal relations, are the most important sources for the development of legal doctrines in the English courts from the late 13th century to 1535. Many have been printed, others are preserved only in manuscript form. The database of this website, compiled by Professor David J. Seipp of Boston University, provides a searchable index and paraphrase of printed yearbook reports. On the website, you will also find a list of old printed editions of directories, a list of manuscripts with locations, and an annotated bibliography of more than 80 articles and books on the directories. This guide is intended for students and researchers who wish to find the jurisprudence of common law countries or Anglo-American legal tradition at the University of Oxford.
On level 5 of the library, there are a number of overviews with case summaries that can be found via SUPrimo: there is always the possibility of finding legal reports in paper form in the library. You can check on SOLO if your college library contains the series or if the Bodleian Law Library should include the series. You need to know what the abbreviation means, and therefore use the Cardiff index if you don`t, there is a tutorial on how to use the index here. You`ll need to use the quote in the right report to find your way around the shelves or ask the librarian if you run into any problems. Unfortunately, neutral citations will not have a corresponding print series (since it is a “case number” and not a report). You need to know in which series of legal reports (if any) the case was reported. You can do this by using the indexes or by asking a librarian. Subscription Service. The JustisOne service provides access to an extensive full-text database of 1163 and higher case law, including judgments of the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the House of Lords/Supreme Court and the Privy Council, as well as citation information with links to reports and judgments on other websites. Other Justis products available on JustisOne include Times Law Reports, International Law Reports, reports from Irish and Scottish law reporting councils and reports from various Commonwealth jurisdictions. Other vLex Justis services provide access to legal material from various other jurisdictions around the world.
Contains reports and case transcripts, including Session Cases Archive (1821 – 1872) and Immigration Appeal Reports. If you search on JustisOne, you can also follow links to the full text of cases available on other services (including Westlaw and LexisLibrary). Originally, legal reports and summaries were printed publications, but there are now online versions of these sources. Many legal reports are available on database services, such as Westlaw and Lexis®Library. BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) provides the most comprehensive set of UK and Irish primary legal documents available free of charge online. There are over 50 case-law databases covering both courts and large courts and are listed in the “BAILII databases” under the following headings: England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, United Kingdom and Commonwealth, and Europe. Most databases contain mostly up-to-date documents (especially around 1997), but older decisions are constantly being added with new cases. To view the current coverage of a specific database, click the link in the BAILII Databases list. Recently added decisions, both current and old, can also be accessed via the “Recent Decisions”, “Recently Added” and “New Cases of Interest” links on the homepage. Where decisions have been reported by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, a link to the ICLR website is provided. There are several options for a simple and advanced search, as well as a comprehensive index of case names from A to Z. Once you have recovered a case, you can use the case analysis document to check its status and find out if it can still be considered a good right or if it has been cancelled or reversed.
To the left of the Case Analysis document, you can access additional information about the case. SLT (News) – News Section (contains articles, no cases) Printed books on the English and British legal system are located in KL 11 on level 5 of the Law Library. Other printed and electronic books are available in the library catalogue. Use SUPrimo to find out which legal reports we have printed: Published legislative report series are usually only available through subscription databases (which require an Oxford SSO for online access). If you know the country/jurisdiction, use the tabs (and drop-down menus on some of them) to find databases relevant to that country. The Inner Temple Library LawCite`s daily legal news feed is a reciter of automatically generated international legal articles and journal articles developed at AustLII in collaboration with other members of the Open Access to Law Movement. More than 18,000 series of legal reports and journals are currently indexed, and the database includes more than six million cases and articles from law journals from around the world. The focus is on common law countries, but this is gradually expanding to civil jurisdictions. Decisions can be searched by summons, parties, court, jurisdiction and date, and search results will include a link to the full text of the case, if available, as well as details of the legislation cited, cases and articles cited, as well as cases and articles relating to the case.
Based on data provided by Justis, this section of the CommonLII website contains all reports from the English Reports for the years 1220 to 1873 nominative report series as PDF page images. Cases can be searched by name or year, or the database can be searched using the search options at the top of the page. Each of the most important legal databases has its own ability to provide information about how a judgment was subsequently reviewed by a court. This information is crucial in a precedent-following court system (see Overview for a reminder of precedent theory). Cases are dealt with here only a few weeks before the appeal hearing before the Court. The lists of cases in which an action is brought before the Court of Justice can be found in the monthly lists published on our page Leave to appeal once such a request has been decided. The following table of pending cases can be sorted in ascending or descending order by clicking on the following titles: Use this guide to find common law court decisions, judgments, judgments and judgments, as well as transcripts of unreported cases. Rightsnet is operated by the Lasa Charity UK Limited. It provides information, advice and news on welfare law in the UK, mainly through its news and case law subscription service. However, the open access “Resources” section contains links to important online sources for legislation, official guides, manuals, case law, forms and calculators.
The content of the case law includes an “archive of Board decisions” with nearly 5,000 decisions in PDF format from the late 1940s, most of which are not available online elsewhere. These include decisions previously available on Commissioner Howell`s website, in the archives of the Office of Social Security Commissioners and in the Child Poverty Action Group.