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
Collection of legal aid materials for solicitors, provided by the Law Society of England and Wales. Consists of Law Society guidance, practice notes, policy documents and press releases.
Information about alcohol licensing, provided by the Home Office on the UK government website. Explains the licensing regime and how to apply for a licence; provides links to forms, notices, guidance and other information. Also covers the hearings held when doubts have been raised about the grant of a particular licence.
Nominet is the registry for the “.uk”, “cymru” and “.wales” internet domains. It also offers a dispute resolution service. The Nominet website has a searchable register of domain names and provides information about registering a new name. There is also a database of domain name disputes decided by Nominet, together with procedural guidance for dispute resolution. News, reports and statistics are available on the site and there is a timeline showing the history of the internet.
Blog by Alan Trench, Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster, about devolution in the UK. Includes numerous posts on the Scottish independence referendum of 2014. Provides a briefing called ‘Devolution: the basics’ as well as information about the West Lothian Question, the Barnett Formula and the Sewel Convention. The blog features Trench’s Twitter feed and also offers RSS feeds for new blog posts and comments.
Online guide to the law in Wales written by Dr. Catrin Fflur Huws who is lecturer and Director of the Centre for Welsh Legal Affairs in the Department of Law and Criminology at Aberystwyth University and Lillian Stevenson who is Academic Services Manager and Law Librarian at Aberystwyth University. The guide was published in 2012 (and updated in 2024) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.
BILA is an organsiation for insurers, insurance brokers, academic lawyers and practising lawyers; its membership is drawn from Britain and also from overseas. As well as being an association in its own right, it is the British chapter of the Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances (AIDA). BILA’s website describes its work and gives details of its events, but most of the content - such as the Journal and the Research pages - is restricted to members.
This facility on the website of New Square Chambers will calculate the dates of the legal terms (court sittings) for the High Court and Court of Appeal from 1972/73 up to 2200/2201. It is accompanied by a Historical Note explaining the use of legal terms from medieval times onwards and by links to the current rules regarding term dates.
Digital library of British historical sources from the 11th to 19th centuries, provided by the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Includes an Administrative and Legal History section, with acts of the Privy Council, the Statutes of the Realm, records of the courts of quarter sessions and assize courts, the Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum and many other materials.
The Family Law Bar Assocation (FLBA) is a specialist group for barristers. The Resources section of its website includes the Assocation’s responses to government consultations, judgments, news items and FLBA reports. Some other areas of the site are restricted to members of the Association.
