Website of the Mercantile Courts which are regional courts of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court dealing with commercial transactions and disputes. Mercantile Courts are located in a number of UK cities including London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Newcastle. The site provides a detailed Mercantile Court guide and contact details for mercantile judges and clerks.
Parking on Private Land Appeals (POPLA) is an independent resolution service set up under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 which hears appeals from those who have been issued with parking charge notices in respect of vehicles parked on private land. The site has guidance on making an appeal and a selection of FAQs. POPLA annual reports and a page of links to related websites are also given.
Website of the Bar Tribunal and Adjudication Service (BTAS) the body responsible for appointing and administering the Disciplinary Tribunals for barristers facing charges of professional misconduct. BTAS also appoints and administers panels who consider admission and disciplinary cases brought by the Inns of Court against student members or applicants. There are decisions of the Disciplinary Tribunals, policy and guidance documents and annual reports provided on the site.
Online catalogue of British Privy Council appeals from the 13 colonies that became the United States and from colonies in Canada and the Caribbean heard before the creation of the United States Supreme Court in in 1789. The catalogue was compiled by Sharon Hamby O’Connor and Mary Sarah Bilder and made freely available online by the Ames Foundation in the United States. The catalogue can be searched using a simple keyword search option or by party, participants or counsel. Appeals can also be browsed by colony. Links are given to digital images of original documents.
The Pensions Regulator is the UK regulator of work-based pension schemes. They work with trustees, employers, pension specialists and business advisers, giving guidance on what is expected of them. Their principal aim is to prevent problems from developing. They use their powers with the aim of putting things right and keeping schemes, and employers on the right track for the long term.
The website provides access to reports, documents and information for trustees, employers, business advisers and individuals.
The aim of the Association of Commons Registration Authorities (ACRA) is to support Commons Registration Officers and staff whose work includes all aspects of common land and town and village greens.
Mental Health Online is a free portal website providing an internet resource on mental health law, and mental capacity law, for England & Wales. The site provides links to case law, legislation and general information on mental health; as well as producing an Annual Review which contains all news items, arranged thematically, which were added to the website during that year
The report of the Kerr/Haslam Inquiry, which was concerned with how NHS services in Yorkshire dealt with concerns raised about two consultant psychiatrists, Dr William Kerr and Mr Michael Haslam, who were involved in the sexual abuse of psychiatric patients. The Inquiry’s report was published in July 2005 and is available here on the Gov.UK website, the website for the UK government.
This web page forms part of the UK Government Web Archive which is maintained and hosted by the National Archives website. This page provides access to the archived websites of a number of completed and ongoing public inquiries and inquests. The inquiries are arranged alphabetically and the links give access to documents and reports generated by each inquiry. Inquiries accessible from this page include
the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, the Shipman Inquiry and the Baha Mousa Inquiry.
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).
