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Case Law

British and Irish legal Information Institute - BAILII
Http://www.bailii.org
A useful free resource where you can find British and Irish case law & legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports and other law-related British and Irish material.

Ecclesiastical Case Reports
http://www.ecclawsoc.org.uk/cases/index.shtml
Contains a selection of brief reports of ecclesiastical cases which have appeared in issues of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal. Includes summaries of many unreported hearings in the consistory courts

Her Majesty's Court Service Judgments
http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/judgments.htm
Contains selected Court of Appeal and High Court judgments dating back to 1996. Cases are selected by the judge concerned.

House of Lords Judgements
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldjudgmt.htm
Provides full text transcripts of House of Lords judgments delivered since 14th November 1996. There are also links to HL practice directions, information on the judicial function of the House of Lords and a list of the current Lords of Appeal in Ordinary.

Sentencing Advisory Panel
http://www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk/about/sap/

HSE Public Register of Convictions
http://www.hse-databases.co.uk/prosecutions/
Gives details of prosecution cases taken by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), which resulted in a successful conviction. Cases appear for a period of 5 years.

Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR)
http://www.lawreports.co.uk/
Summaries of significant HL, CA, High Court and ECJ judgments from 11 June 1999, updated daily. Full text will eventually appear in The Law Reports, WLR or ICR.

Privy Council Judgments
http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/page472.asp
Contains judgments made by the Judicial Committee from 1999 as well as selected pre 1999 judgments.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674-1834
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
A fully searchable online edition of over 100,000 trials held at London's central criminal court from April 1674 - October 1834.

Supreme Court Costs Office
http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/infoabout/scco/index.htm
Contains transcripts organised by subject; transcripts of test cases and case summaries from 2000.

SWARB 
http://www.swarb.co.uk/index.shtml
Contains over 60,000 summaries of cases up to the end of 2000. It is the free version of 'lawindexpro' which is subscription service but has reduced facilities. The site also contains details and links to the fuller subscription service.

Bhatt Murphy Solicitors
http://www.bhattmurphy.co.uk/
Civil Liberties Specialists Bhatt Murphy have created timelines which set out the major events in the areas of police misconduct, tariff setting for life sentenced prisoners, deaths in custody , immigration detention, parole hearings, prison disciplinary system with links to the relevant legislation.

Judicial Studies Board Criminal law online reference
http://www.jsboard.co.uk/criminal_law/index.htm

Criminal Cases Review Commission
http://www.ccrc.gov.uk/
Independent Body investigating suspected miscarriages of justice. Includes annual reports. The case library has details of cases referred on to the Court of Appeal. 

Guide to Anti-social Behaviour Orders
http://www.jsboard.co.uk/publications/asbo_guidance_for_judiciary_edition_3.doc
JSB has just republished the third edition of its Guide to Anti-social Behaviour Orders it contains useful lists of prohibitions found to be valid and prohibitions found to be invalid as well as cases on sentencing for breach in the Appendices.

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