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Sierra Leone Legal Information Institute

Website of the Sierra Leone Legal Information Institute (SierraLII) a non-profit organization providing free access to online legal information of Sierra Leone. Resources provided include selected full text decisions of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, the Appeal Court, High Court and Special Court of Sierra Leone. Full text legislation can be browsed by date or topic and links are given to other Sierra Leone legal sites.

Lesotho Legal Information Institute

Website of LesLII a project providing access to Lesotho legal materials established with support from the African Legal Information Institute (African LII). The site provides full text judgements of the Court of Appeal, Labour Court, Labour Appeal Court, High Court and High Court Commercial Division, High Court Constitutional Division and High Court Land Division. Selected legislation back to 1967 is also offered along with other documents including Law Society Rules and practice directives.

Seychelles Legal Information Institute

Website of the Seychelles Legal Information Institute (SeyLII). This site provides free access to Seychelles consolidated legislation, statutory instruments, acts as enacted and judgements of the Seychelles Constitutional and Supreme courts. Court documents- practice directions and causelists- are provided along with an eGrey Book which includes the most frequently cited legislation in Seychelles. SeyLII is a project of the Seychelles Judiciary with support from the African Legal Information Institute (AfricanLII).

Legal Research & Mooting Skills Programme

Online tutorial provided for students at University of Oxford, Faculty of Law taking the Legal Research & Mooting Skills Programme and made freely available on Faculty of Law web page. The tutorial is organised into three sections providing an introduction to the different types of legal materials, electronic resources and printed resources for legal research. There is guidance on how UK and EU law reports and legislation are prepared, produced and published, information on citing legal references and a link to OSCOLA (Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities).

Court Services of Timor-Leste

Website providing information on the courts of Timor-Leste (East Timor). There is information on the Court of Appeal including the names of the judges, full-text judgments and laws; the laws include the Civil Code, Penal Code, the Constitution, Code of Civil Procedure and the Code of Criminal Procedure. Contact details of the District Courts are also given. The site is available to view in Portuguese only.

Inter-American Court of Human Rights Database

Searchable summaries of Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) decisions, in English. Detailed summaries are available for some cases, covering the facts, procedural history, merits, and state compliance with the judgment; for other cases only a short abstract is provided. The database can be searched by case name, country, topic, treaty article and other criteria. It is an initiative of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. (For full IACHR judgments, in Spanish, see the Court’s own website.)

United Kingdom Supreme Court

A BAILII database, providing all decisions of the UK Supreme Court from October 2009 (when it replaced the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords as the UK's highest court) onwards. The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) is a collaborative service aiming to deliver free access to primary legal materials for the UK and of Ireland.

JADE

JADE (Judgments and Decisions Enhanced) is a free Australian legal research platform produced by BarNet, a not-for-profit group set up by lawyers. It provides a searchable and browseable collection of Australian court and tribunal decisions and aims for comprehensive coverage of new cases. There is also a case citator called ‘CaseTrace’. Cases can be bookmarked and annotated, and RSS or email alerts are available for new cases. Additional features are available to subscribers.

Travel Law Quarterly

Website of Travel Law Quarterly (TLQ) which is published by the Leisure Industries Section of the International Bar Association. TLQ is aimed at travel industry professionals, lawyers and students and covers topics such as “travel agency, tour operations, cruise law, air law, timeshare, hotel law as well as the regulation and licensing of the travel industry”. The full journal is available by subscription but TLQ Online, which provides additional content, is freely available on the website.

Supreme Court of Hungary

Official website of the Hungarian Supreme Court (Kúria) which is offered in Hungarian with an English interface. Information provided in English covers the history, organisation and jurisdiction of the court and the reform of the Hungarian judicial system following the country’s change to a democratic system of government . A selection of civil, criminal and administrative decisions of the court are provided in full text, in English.

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