LINKS
Courts, Court Services and Judgments
- The Supreme Court - judicial work homepage; judgements online
- Scottish courts - website including jurisprudence e.g. Brown v Procurator Fiscal
- Court Service - website with information on all aspects of the Courts system as well as selected judgements, including Court of Appeal judgements handed down in last 48 hours
- Judicial Studies Board - website where all benchbooks can be downloaded
- Court Lists - and more
Legal Databases and Publishers
- Sweet & Maxwell - publishers plus online services
- Hammicks - legal bookshops on line
- Wildy's - legal booksellers on line
- Lawtel - subscription database of law reports digests and more
- Westlaw - subscription legal database of law reports, Archbold etc.
- Criminal Law Week - online by subscription
- Expert witness - index of experts on line, searchable by category, location etc.
- CrimeLine - legal training company provides free subscription email of cases, legislation, news, Duty Solicitor Handbook updates, articles and more carrying CPD points as well as an archive of articles.
- British and Irish Legal Information Institute - has a database of cases materials and links
- Forensic Science Society - site has useful articles published in the Society's journal
- British and Irish Legal Information Institute - worldwide database of cases
Government
- Home Office - includes downloadable resources such as RIPA Code of Practice etc.
- Department of Constitutional Affairs - includes downloadable resources such as the Attorney-General's Guidlines
- Prison Service - website containing everything you want to know about prisons and the prison service
- Legal Services Commission - website containing everything one needs to know about publicly funded legal work
- CPS - includes CPS Code of Practice European Court of Human Rights
- Hansard - database
- Acts of Parliament - which can be downloaded
- Parliamentary publications
- Law Commission - reports and consultation documents
- Criminal Courts - review by AULD LJ
Non-Governmental Organisations
- The Bar Council
- The Law Society
- Young Fraud Lawyers Association - some useful links
- Liberty - the civil liberties campaigning organisation with easily accessed guide to human rights
- Legal Action Group - working with lawyers to promote equal access to justice
- Inquest - campaigning group focusing on changes to coroners courts and particularly deaths caused by agents of the State
- Police Station Defence Service - home page with a database of case law
European
- The European Criminal Bar Association
- European Union portal
- The European Convention on Human Rights
- European Court of Human Rights - with downloadable judgements
- Academy of European Law - an education and discussion centre for legal practitioners on issues of EU law
- Organisation for Security and Co operation in Europe - dealing with Kosovo; reports on progress of internationalised trials in Kosovo
- ECHR - research site for cases
- French penal code - in English
- Statewatch - an organisation monitoring civil liberties in the EU. Useful source of info on Schengen, corpus juris, EU arrest warrant etc.
International
- Australasian Legal Information Institute database - of case law and legislation
- Constitutional Court of South Africa - judgments and case law
- Supreme Court of Canada - judgments and case law
- International Court of Justice
- International Criminal Court
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Special Court for Sierra Leone - documents and articles on Special Court for Sierra Leone
- Journal of International Criminal Justice - full text of articles by practitioners and academics on all aspects of international criminal law
- International Commission of Jurists - including database of ICJ reports and other legal documents
- Project on International Courts and Tribunals - gateway to sites and database of materials and publications
- International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association
- No Peace Without Justice - an NGO which has news and updates as well as in depth articles on all areas of international criminal law
- Judicial Systems Monitoring Project - which has all materials on East Timor trials in Dili and Jakarta, as well as articles and in depth studies
- Coalition for the International Criminal Court – a network of NGOs with resources and tools
- International Crisis Group - produces reports on international criminal justice across the world
- International Federation of Human Rights
- Coalition for International Justice - tracking efforts in enforcing international justice around the world
Research Links
- Links to legal resources - in the UK and Ireland, maintained by Delia Venables
- Infolaw - legal gateway site
- Bristol University - set of jumping-off points for legal research on the Web.
- The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King's College, London - provides some crime news and a comprehensive set of links
Miscellaneous
- Streetmaps - searchable database of printable street maps
- Multimap - searchable database of printable street maps
- National Rail - timetables
- Old Bailey - case reports from the from the C17 and C18
