A research guide on the legal history of Australia and the UK created and maintained by the Law Library at Melbourne Law School. Links are given to legal history resources and materials held in collections at the University of Melbourne. There are sections including legal history blogs, resources focusing on Australia and the Common Law Tradition and legal history societies and collections.
Website of the Centre for Competition Law and Policy (CCLP) at the University of Oxford. Teaching and research focuses on competition regulation in the UK, EU and US, as well international aspects of competition law and antitrust economics. Training programmes on competition law and policy are offered to practitioners, judges, academics and students. The site has profiles of staff and details of conferences, workshops and lectures taking place at the CCLP.
This website provides free access to the Hamlyn Lectures, a collection of public lectures by judges, legal academics, practitioners and other eminent speakers. The lectures are made available by the Hamlyn Trust, a charity supporting public legal education in the United Kingdom, and hosted on the website of the University of Exeter, School of Law. This collection has selected lectures delivered from 1949 to 2004 including contributions from Lord Denning, Lord Devlin, Lord Scarman, Henry Cecil, Lord Hailsham and Lord Woolf.
Website of the Business Law Department of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) providing information on legal and regulatory issues affecting accountants. There is a section on company law, providing guidance on the Companies Act 2006 with links to ministerial statements, government guidance, a copy of the Act and useful links. The Business Crime and Misconduct section includes guidance for accountants on bribery, corruption and fraud, unlicensed arms dealing and criminal cartels.
Website of Doughty Street Chambers a UK based chambers specialising in human rights and civil liberties law. The site provides profiles of barristers, academic experts and other staff at the chambers and information on the areas of law covered. A collection of articles and papers and CPD podcasts by Doughty Street Chambers' barristers, associate tenants and academic experts are available to download from the site. Free registration is required to download the podcasts. The site also has a page of links to related human rights websites.
Website of ClientEarth, an independent environmental charity whose aim is to protect the environment through the use of law. The site has profiles of the trustees, staff, associates and advisors of ClientEarth along with an outline of the main programme areas ClientEarth is concerned with. These cover climate and energy, environmental justice and marine protection.
Website of Insite Law magazine which is produced by Mike Semple Piggot and aimed at legal practitioners and students. The site offers podcasts of interviews with people working in different areas of the law and legal education. Recent podcasts have covered topics such as standards in UK universities, the rising costs of legal education and what is involved in doing a Ph.D. There are also interviews with the Chair of the UK Innocence Network Committee, Head of Legal at Liberty and the Director of Justice along with a series of podcasts focusing on the Bar and pupillage.
Website of Gibbs Wyatt Stone, a UK-based law firm specialising in legal costs disputes. Includes a regular newsletter, Costs Law Update, which has information on legal developments, cases and publications in this area of law. There is also a blog, with an archive of posts back to 2002.
The Public Law Project (PLP) is a UK-based legal charity whose aim is to improve access to justice in public law matters. The site provides information about the PLP and its work, including research, casework and training. Background information is given about public law is and there are leaflets on topics such as judicial review and making a complaint to the Ombudsman. Research reports, articles and press releases can be downloaded from the site.
Website of the City of London Law Society (CLLS) the professional body representing solicitors and law firms in the City of London. The site provides organisational information about CLLS including the names of committee members, a copy of the constitution and business plan. There is information about CLLS µs specialist committees including minutes of meetings, reports and other documentation. News of the Societyãs latest activities is delivered via an e-briefing which can be downloaded from the site along with a selection of precedent documents.
