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Privy Council Papers

Searchable catalogue of papers relating to appeals from colonial and Commonwealth courts to the UK Privy Council,1792 to 1998. Each record gives dates, party names, the origin of the appeal and other details, and lists the papers produced during the proceedings.

International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) is the UN institution responsible for dealing with matters that were formerly the responsibility of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), both of which have been wound up. The work of the Mechanism includes hearing appeals, enforcing sentences and keeping records. Its website has details of ongoing cases, and a case database with&nb

National Archives

The National Archives is the UK government’s official public archive, a repository of documents going back more than 1000 years. Its website includes Discovery, a catalogue of its holdings with more than 20 million descriptions of records created by central government and the courts of England and Wales. Some of the records in the The National Archives have been digitised and may be downloaded from the site, for a fee. Archived government webpages are also available, free of charge. The website provides a large collection of research guides, several of which are on legal topics.

Supreme Court of Florida Documents in the Presidential Election Cases

Section of the Supreme Court of Florida website containing court documents relating to the Florida recount dispute in the 2000 US Presidential Election. Includes filings, motions, opinions and orders of the Supreme Court of Florida and the federal Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. The dispute concerned legal challenges made by Democrat Party contender Al Gore and Republican Party contender George W. Bush in regard to the design of ballot papers and counting of votes in the region. 

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