A BAILII database providing access to reports and consultation papers published by the Law Commission, which reviews the law of England and Wales. Publications are provided from 1965 onwards in pdf or html format and can be browsed by title/date, or searched by key word. There is also a link to the Law Commission website.
The BAILII Open Law Project is an initiative of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) to create a database of important judgments. The project identifies older cases that are important for legal education and makes them available for free online.
This database provides a searchable index to, and paraphrase, of the Year Books, which were the law reports of medieval England. The database, compiled by Professor David J. Seipp of Boston University, indexes all year book reports printed in the chronological series for all years between 1268 and 1535. The site also has a list of old printed editions of year books, a list of manuscripts and their locations, and a bibliography (compiled in 2002) of articles and books about the Year Books.
The Anglo-American Legal Tradition (AALT) website is a project of O' Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston. It provides digitised versions of legal documents of medieval and early modern England, from the UK National Archives. The documents have been categorised under the following headings: the first legal system 1176-1348; the second legal system; 1348-1529, the third legal system 1529-1649; and the fourth legal system, Commonwealth to George III. They include court rolls, Chancery orders and decrees and itinerant justices' rolls.
Website of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), which regulates solicitors in England and Wales. The site provides news, information and documentation for solicitors, the general public and those interested in qualifying as a solicitor. It includes a register of regulated solicitors, guidance on choosing and using a solicitor, and information about claiming compensation for money owed by a solicitor.
Website of the Legal Ombudsman for England and Wales, set up by the Office for Legal Complaints in 2010 to resolve complaints relating to legal services, such as conveyancing, wills and civil litigation. The site has organisational information, guidance on making a complaint and FAQs aimed at lawyers. There is also a selection of case studies, as well as business plans and discussion papers.
