This part of the UK Parliament website provides all House of Lords judgments delivered from 14 November 1996 to 30 July 2009. The Supreme Court replaced the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords as the highest court in the UK in October 2009.
5RB is a set of barristers specialising in media and entertainment law; areas covered include defamation, privacy, breach of confidence, intellectual property, sport, publishing and harassment. The 5RB website provides a collection of case reports, with commentary, which may be searched by key word or browsed by year, party name or topic. It also includes a collection of articles by barristers from 5RB.
Website of the Care Tribunal for Northern Ireland which was established under the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003. The Tribunal hears appeals against decisions relating to the regulation of residential care homes, nursing homes, children’s homes and nursing agencies. The site provides the names of the panel chairs and members and full text decisions of the Tribunal.
Voices of American Law is a collection of teaching materials compiled by the Duke University School of Law. The aim of the project is to assist with the teaching of American constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court. Legal materials relating to a number of important constitutional cases have been made freely available on the site including court documents, opinions, articles, interviews and photographs. Accompanying the documentation is a selection of videos featuring interviews with the parties, their lawyers and the judges who presided in the case.
This WorldLII library brings together 76 searchable databases concerning international law. The databases include the International Courts and Tribunals Collection which has, among others, decisions of the International Criminal Court, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Caribbean Court of Justice and the Timor Leste Special Panel for Serious Crimes. The Treaties & International Agreements Collection has 7 treaties databases from international organisations the League of Nations and the United Nations.
This website provides access to a digitised collection of pre-1923 piracy trials held by the Law Library of Congress in the United States. For each publication there is a catalogue record, brief title, the date of the trial and a link to the digital version of the full text book. The dates of the trials range from 1696 to 1904 and include trials that took place in a range of jurisdictions including Scotland, England, the United States and Canada.
Online (PDF) version of a report published by Human Rights Watch which provides a digest of judgements of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The digest is organised by subject including genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, individual responsibility, command responsibility and fair trial requirements and includes judgements available up to the end of 2008.
The JURE (JUrisdiction Recognition Enforcement) is a database of case law developed by the European Commission. It is now part of EUR-Lex. It contains judgments of the European Court of Justice and the courts of Member States concerning the Brussels Convention (1968), the Lugano Convention (1988), the Brussels I Regulation (2000), the Brussels II Regulation (2000), the New Brussels II Regulation (2003) and the New Lugano Convention (2007). The judgments are in the original language, with summaries in English, French and German (and the original language, if available).
The Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII), founded in 1992, provides free access to US federal and state legal material, including US Supreme Court decisions, decisions of the US Courts of Appeals and other federal courts, the US Constitution, the United States Code, state constitutions and statutes (via links to state websites), and state regulations. Secondary materials on the site include 'Wex', an open access legal dictionary and encyclopedia, and the 'Introduction to Basic Legal Citation' by Peter W. Martin.
The European Commission for Democracy through Law, known as the Venice Commission, is a Council of Europe body that was established in 1990. Originally set up to assist Eastern European countries in the re-engineering of their constitutions, it now monitors and provides assistance to countries all around the world and has more than 60 member states. The website outlines the Commission's activities, which include providing advice and training to individual states on constitutional matters, elections and referendums and constitutional justice.
