Law Useful Websites: United Kingdom

This guide introduces selected general reference sources on United Kingdom legal materials in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library.

Website of the Bar Council which is the professional body for barristers in England and Wales.

BOPCRIS website (British official publications Collaborative Reader Information Service) which is a bibliographic database covering the period 1688 - 1995. This site may be used to search a bibliographic database of approximately 39,000 selected British official publications within this period.

UK Government website on criminal justice system information and resources.

To mark the Hamlyn Trust's 60 th anniversary, and in order to bring past lectures to the attention of the widest possible audience, the Trustees decided in 2009 to seek permission from former Hamlyn Lecturers, or their estates, to convert the whole series, previously published by Sweet & Maxwell, into digital files and to make these freely available to scholars and individuals for private study.

This site is generated from information from Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament.

Lawlinks is maintained at the University of Kent to help students and others find their way around legal resources on the internet. The Signposts are to freely available websites that we recommend as good starting points for legal research.

The online lawyers' news

This Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) settles .uk domain name disputes through mediation, and where this is not possible, through an independent expert decision.

London's Central Criminal Court 1674-1913. A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

Website of the Scottish Law Commission a statutory independent body created to keep law under review and recommend reform. Provides links to reports and papers.

The new supreme court website link to UK judgments.

This website contains Html versions of all House of Lords judgments delivered since 14 November 1996. Print versions of judgments since 2005 are available in PDF format from the top right corner of individual judgment pages.

Website of the Privy Council office containing the Judgments made by the Judicial Committee.

This new service enables you to access details of over 14,000 treaties involving the UK. The treaty records are based on information received by the FCO Treaty Section over many years. You will be able to research the existence of treaties, obtain key information about them (such as place, place of signature and entry into force date) and see which States or organizations participate in them.