Information and links for those representing themselves in court in the UK, compiled by law librarian Sally McLaren and last updated in August 2025. Covers legal textbooks, cases and legislation, the courts, fees and funding, library facilities (in London), advice centres, online courses and other topics.
Global Online Access to Legal Information (GOALI) gives developing countries free or low-cost online access to journals, books and reference sources for law. Its web page has information about who is eligible to use the service, and how to register. There are also links to training materials, which are available to all: video tutorials, MOOCs and webinars about research skills and related topics. GOALI is a partnership between the International Labour Organization (ILO), Brill Nijhoff, Cornell Law School Library and Yale’s Lillian Goldman Law Library.
A database of Philippine primary legislation, cases and reference material, compiled by the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Covers Supreme Court cases, laws, executive issuances, references and treaties. The Supreme Court cases section of the Bookshelf encompasses decisions and signed resolutions back to 1996 only, but cases are available back to 1901 using the search facility (E-Library Search). The Laws section covers acts, constitutions, presidential decrees and other legislative material from 1900 to the present.
Online collection of documents, maps, photographs and videos recording the history of the people of the Chagos Islands (also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, or BIOT), their exile when the US-UK military base was set up on Diego Garcia, and the resulting legal disputes. The archive includes US and UK official documents; UN documents; documents from court cases; birth, death and marriage records; material from Chagossian organisations; literature about the Chagos Archipelago its people; and material from the national archives of Mauritius and the Seychelles.
A searchable bibliography of Turkish journal articles provided by the National Library of Turkey. Covers more than 5,000 Turkish journals, on law and other subjects, from 1923 to the present. Basic and advanced search facilities are available. The bibliography is entirely in Turkish.
The website of Epravo, a Czech legal publisher, provides a wide range of Czech legal material, including news, legislation, cases, and articles on various areas of law. The site is available in Czech only.
The Maori Legal Archive is a collection of digitised documents made freely available by the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. The aim of the collection is to provide an insight into the interaction between the Māori people and the colonial legal system of nineteenth century New Zealand. The documents, which date back to the nineteenth century, are grouped by category and include Māori-language translations of Acts and Bills, speeches of Māori members of Parliament, land deeds, petitions and evidence submitted by Māori to various commissions of inquiry and tribunals.
The Legal Māori Resource Hub forms part of the Legal Māori Project at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and was compiled by a research team in the Faculty of Law between 2008 and 2013.
