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Treaties – UK Parliament

List of treaties laid before the UK Parliament under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, showing their progress through the procedure. The list covers treaties laid from June 2017 onwards. It is searchable by title or command number and can be filtered by criteria such as government department, house of Parliament, and whether there was a motion or recommendation not to ratify. There are links to the text of each treaty, its explanatory memorandum, the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, and select committee reports.

Chartered Trading Standards Institute

Website of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) a membership body for trading standards professionals. The site also provides trading standards and consumer protection information aimed at consumers and businesses including guides to the law dealing with issues such as consumer contracts, product safety, underage sales and weights and measures. Details of events and a link to the CTSI Journal of Trading Standards are also given.

Consumer Crime Cases

The Consumer Crime Cases (CCC) website provides free access to case commentaries and digests of consumer protection and trading standards appeal cases. The site is produced by Victor Smith former Head of Legal Services at Northamptonshire County Council. Cases can be searched using free text terms or using the keyword index or legislation list. Digests highlight key points of law, extracts from the judgements and links to related cases. There are also pages of links to related organisations and legislation.

Emplaw

Emplaw is a subscription service hosted by the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) and written by employment law specialists. The site provides guidance on a wide range of employment law topics and summaries of employment law decisions from the UK and European courts and tribunals. There is free access to employment law news stories and articles and to Emplaw Monthly, a review of developments in employment law which is available back to 2014. A directory of employment lawyers is also given.

EU Exit Web Archive

The EU Exit Web Archive, maintained by the National Archives, is an online archive of documents providing an official UK reference point for EU law as it stood at the end of the Brexit implementation period. This collection consists of documents taken from EUR-Lex, including Treaties, legislative documents, case law, and the Official Journal of the EU, published up until 11pm GMT on December 31st 2020. The Archive can be searched using filters including keyword, type, date of document, status at EU exit, and language.

Lloyd’s Acts and Bylaws

This section of the Lloyd’s website provides free access to copies of the Lloyd’s acts and byelaws currently in force. Lloyd’s - the world’s leading specialist insurance market – is governed by the Lloyd’s Acts of 1871, 911, 1951 and 1982. The Council of Lloyd’s manages and supervises the market and does this, in part, by passing byelaws which can be viewed in full on the site. Underwriting requirements made by the byelaws are also available along with codes and other standards and regulations required by Lloyd’s.

Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law

The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law is part of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) and was set up to advance the Rule of Law worldwide. The Bingham Centre’s work covers the following areas: business; citizenship; digital age; justice systems; modern slavery; parliaments and security. The Centre produces reports and discussion papers which are available in full on the site. Details of the Centre’s projects and events are also given along with its work as secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Rule of Law.  

The Advocate’s Gateway

The Advocate’s Gateway (TAG) is an independent organisation, overseen by a management committee of lawyers and other professionals, providing free guidance on communicating with vulnerable witnesses and defendants. The toolkits are aimed at legal practitioners and focus on maintaining ethical and professional standards when questioning vulnerable people in justice settings.

Find case law

Case database launched by The National Archives in April 2022. Covers cases from the UK Supreme Court, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal, the England and Wales High Court and various tribunals. At the time of writing, the court judgments go back to 2003 and the tribunal decisions (as a rule) to 2016. Basic and advanced search facilities are available. Cases may be downloaded in pdf or xml format.

British Association of Comparative Law

 The British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) is an organisation dedicated to promoting “comparative legal research and teaching throughout the UK”. Its membership is open to staff of UK universities with areas of research and activities involving comparative law. Along with the Scottish Association of Comparative Law, BACL organises the national reports submitted to the International Congress of Comparative Law. BACL coordinates annual seminars and postgraduate workshops on comparative law. The site contains a blog that posts regular online publications on comparative law.

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