United Kingdom Law

Government

• Attorney General's Office
• House of Commons
• House of Lords
• United Kingdom Parliament

Legislation and Official documents

There are 2 main sources of online access to UK legislation:

•  UK Statute Law Database is the official public-access database of UK primary legislation
•  United Kingdom Legislation containes original (i.e. unamended) copies of Acts as they were originally enacted, along with Explanatory Notes

Other sources of legislation:

• UK Acts (1215 onwards) and Statutory Instruments (1987 onwards) are available on BAILII
• Statutes of the Realm (1628-1701) in full text from British History Online

Official documents

• Official documents  - searchable and browsable database

Case law and Justice

• BAILII contains case law for England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland
• English Reports database via CommonLII contains full text cases from 1220-1873
• House of Lords Judgments archive - 1996 to its last case inJuly 2009,  after which HL's judicial role was taken over by the Supreme Court which began haring cases in  October 2009
• Old Bailey Proceedings - searchable database of cases 1674-1913
• Privy Council judgments are available via the PC and BAILII (1884 onwards)
• Supreme Court Decided Cases

Justice

• Criminal Cases Review Commission - investigates miscarriages of justice in England, Northern Ireland and Wales; includes a Case library
• Her Majesty’s Courts Service page includes details of UK court structure and recent Practice Directions
• Sentencing guidelines
• UK Parliament’s Justice Committee

Research

• English law guide
• Guide to British legal research
• Researching UK law

Commentary

• Civil Justice Council  and the CJC's  Alternative Dispute Resolution Answerbank
• Criminal Justice System for England and Wales
• Family Justice Council
• House of Commons publications and research papers
• JUSTICE - a UK legal and human rights organisation
• Law Commission
• Law Societies : England and Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland, and Scotland
• Ministry of Justice - site includes a page of links for academics and researchers
• The Bar Council

Blogs and blawgs

• Binary law
• IPKat - an intellectual property focus
• Times Online UK and international law news