LibGuides: Law Subject Guide: UK Law

Reference

Cardiff Index to legal abbreviations
Law Reports and Legal Journals are cited by their abbreviation rather than their full title. Series and Journals have official abbreviations but not all authors stick to these rigidly. If you are unsure of the meaning of an abbreviation then use one of the published lists of these abbreviations.

Law Trove This link opens in a new window
Oxford Law Trove facilitates a rounded and complete study of law. Its powerful search facility means you can delve deeper into your title, navigate more easily, and connect with additional resources in your own institution’s library collection. For the first time Law Trove enables you to search and interrogate the wealth of Oxford’s textbook law list.
Oxford Scholarship Online Law ebooks Collection This link opens in a new window
Ebooks on company & commercial law, competition law, constitutional and administrative law, criminal law & criminology, employment law, human rights law, public international law and more.

Westlaw This link opens in a new window
Database of legal materials from the UK, EU, US and other common law jurisdictions. Contains full-text case law and legislation, journal articles and law journals.
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Lexis+ UK This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive online legal research database providing access to a wide range of UK legal materials including legislation, case law, legal commentary (includes Halsbury´s Laws of England) and journals.
Legislation.gov.uk This link opens in a new window
A collection of most of the UK's legislation with accompanying explanatory documents, delivered by The National Archives.
British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive access to freely available British and Irish legal information from the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) including transcripts from UK courts.

Westlaw This link opens in a new window
Database of legal materials from the UK, EU, US and other common law jurisdictions. Contains full-text case law and legislation, journal articles and law journals.
You will need to login to access Westlaw
Lexis+ UK This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive online legal research database providing access to a wide range of UK legal materials including legislation, case law, legal commentary (includes Halsbury´s Laws of England) and journals.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Contains over a thousand full-text law journals many of which are US titles. Also contains the English Reports 1220-1867; US law reports; US treaties and the US Supreme Court Library.

Nexis This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive newspaper database, updated daily, providing full text access to all UK national newspapers, plus regional newspapers, international news providers and a number of trade journals and magazines.

UK Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window
Provides complete online coverage of the sessional papers of the British House of Commons and House of Lords. Includes; 18th to 20th-century parliamentary papers, House of Commons parliamentary papers, House of Lords parliamentary papers, public petitions to parliament, 1833-1918, Hansard 1803-2005.
House of Lords Parliamentary Papers 1800-1910 This link opens in a new window
Enables researchers to explore the British perspective on historical and contemporary events through an archive of official government documents spanning three centuries.
House of Lords UK Bills 1901-2005/6 This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the bills brought forward in the House of Lords
House of Lords UK Parliamentary Papers 1901-2005/6 This link opens in a new window
House of Lords Parliamentary Papers encompass wide areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, providing evidence of committees and commissions during a time when the Lords in the United Kingdom wielded considerable power.
Parliamentary publications and records This link opens in a new window
Browse the latest published UK Parliamentary papers, including transcripts of all debates in Hansard and all recent committee reports. View research material produced by the parliamentary libraries. You can also access older electronic papers where available or find out how to access the archives of the House of Lords and House of Commons.

UK Treaties Online This link opens in a new window
An official record of the UK's treaty obligations under international law and is sourced by Treaty Section of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. UKTO gives access to information on over 14,000 treaties to which the UK is or has been a party with links to texts of command papers published in the UK Treaty Series from 1892.

UK Government Publications Search This link opens in a new window
Search the UK central government's publications, including command papers, act papers, policies and guidance.