Website publishing a range of information about the "McLibel Trial", the libel case brought by multinational company McDonalds against two London activists, which became the longest court case in English history. The site has been developed by the London based McLibel Support Campaign, a group formed in 1990 to raise funds for the defendants. The judgement is made freely available on the site in full text or summary form.
Online guide focusing on electronic resources for researching the law of the European Union, written by Marylin Johnson Raisch who is Associate Law Librarian for International and Foreign Law at the John Wolff International and Comparative Law Library of the Georgetown Law Center in the United States. This guide forms a chapter within the ASIL's Guide to Electronic Resources for International law and is made freely available on the American Society of International Law's website.
This SAFLII database provides full text access to judgments of the Free State High Court in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Decisions are available from 2002 onwards to date and can be searched or browsed alphabetically by party name or chronologically by year. Cases can be downloaded in HTML and are provided either in English or Afrikaans. The Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) is a collaborative project of the Wits Law School in South Africa and the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) providing free South African legal information.
This SAFLII database provides full text access to judgments of the High Courts of Gauteng in South Africa. Decisions are available from 2001 onwards to date and can be searched or browsed alphabetically by party name or chronologically by year. Cases can be downloaded in HTML and are provided either in English or Afrikaans. The Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) is a collaborative project of the Wits Law School in South Africa and the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) providing free South African legal information.
This SAFLII database provides full text access to judgments of the North West High Court, Mafikeng in South Africa. Decisions are available from 1998 onwards to date and can be searched or browsed alphabetically by party name or chronologically by year. Cases can be downloaded in HTML. The Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) is a collaborative project of the Wits Law School in South Africa and the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) providing free South African legal information.
This SAFLII database provides full text access to judgments of the Western Cape High Court, Cape Town in South Africa. Decisions are available from 2002 onwards to date and can be searched or browsed alphabetically by party name or chronologically by year. Cases can be downloaded in HTML and are provided either in English or Afrikaans. The Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) is a collaborative project of the Wits Law School in South Africa and the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) providing free South African legal information.
This SAFLII database provides full text access to judgments of the Northern Cape High Court, Kimberley in South Africa. Decisions are available from 2001 onwards to date and can be searched or browsed alphabetically by party name or chronologically by year. Cases can be downloaded in HTML and can be viewed in either English or Afrikaans. The Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) is a collaborative project of the Wits Law School in South Africa and the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) providing free South African legal information.
This part of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) website provides free access to the ICRC's International Humanitarian Law (IHL) databases. There is a treaty database which includes IHL treaties and related documents and lists the states that have signed and/or ratified or acceded to the treaties. It also contains the ICRC commentaries to the four 1949 Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols.
LawCite is an international case citator developed by AustLII, the Australasian Legal Information Institute. It is a searchable index to more than 5 million cases, journal articles and law reform reports from common law jurisdictions, including numerous Commonwealth countries, Ireland, the United States and Hong Kong; links to the full text are given, where available. Cases can be searched by citation, parties, court, jurisdiction and date. Journal articles can be searched by keywords in the title and author.
Electronic article providing guidance on reading legal opinions written by Orin S. Kerr who is a Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. The article was published in the Green Bag: an Entertaining Journal of Law in Autumn 2007 and is aimed at new law students in the United States. There are sections explaining what a judicial opinion is and looking at the caption, the case citation, who wrote the opinion, the facts of the case, the law of the case, concurring or dissenting opinions, common legal terms and types of disputes.
