The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for food safety and food hygiene throughout the UK. It is a government body, set up by act of Parliament in 2000. The FSA website provides information about research programmes, public consultations, food safety management and enforcement of food standards regulations. Materials available on the site include UK and EU legislation, official guidance, consultation papers, surveys and statistics.
A “get” is a Jewish divorce document. This website, provided by English solicitor Sharon Faith and dual-qualified English and Scottish solicitor Deanna Levine, gives detailed information about obtaining a get. A 54-page guide, in pdf format, may be downloaded free of charge; it includes a glossary, standard clauses, a list of solicitors and a list of useful organisations. The site also includes articles on the topic by Faith and Levine from the Family Law Journal, Scots Law Times and Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, together with a videoed interview with Deanna Levine.
The Family Law Bar Assocation (FLBA) is a specialist group for barristers. The Resources section of its website includes the Assocation’s responses to government consultations, judgments, news items and FLBA reports. Some other areas of the site are restricted to members of the Association.
Directory of internet search engines that cover the websites of individual countries. Also includes search engines that cover a specific region within a country and search engines that cover supra-national regions such as the Middle East, the Baltic and Europe. The directory is provided by Phil Bradley, a UK IT consultant
A set of annotated links to Irish law websites, provided by Delia Venables, who is a UK-based IT consultant to the law sector.
A collection of treaties from the Irish Treaty Series, available on the BAILII website. All Irish treaties since 2002, plus a selection of earlier treaties, are available in full; for many other treaties, brief details are provided but the full text cannot be accessed. The earliest information in the database is from 1930.
Case studies produced by the Irish Data Protection Commission, 2005 to 2010, available on the website of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII).
Cases from the Irish Court of Criminal Appeal, available on the website of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII). A small set of decisions from the 1980s is provided, together with a larger set from 2004 onwards.
The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission was established in 2008. It is the Non-Departmental Public Body responsible for child maintenance. Its website provides information on its functions and activities. It includes access to full text press releases, business plans, reports and documents. These include regulations and legislation about child maintenance payments.
The Child Support Agency (CSA) in the UK is part of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission. It has responsibility for ensuring that parents who live apart from their children contribute financially to their upkeep by paying child maintenance. Its website provides information on its function (including changes to its role introduced with the creation of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission in 2008). It also includes press releases, annual reports and regulations relating to child maintenance payments.
