This website provides full text access to the 1999 report of the Inquiry into Crown Prosecution Service Decision-Making in Relation to Deaths in Custody and Related Matters chaired by Gerald Butler QC. There are chapters dealing with the specific cases of Richard Joseph O’Brien, Oluwashijibomi Lapite and Derek John Treadaway and other death in custody cases.
Full-text report of the inquiry into the police investigation of the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence which was published as Cm 4262-1 in February 1999. Volume one examines the racially motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993, analyses the police handling of the case including the initial gathering of evidence at the scene, surveillance of suspects and the failure to prosecute the prime suspects. Recommendations for the reform of the Metropolitan Police service and UK police forces as a whole are made in the report.
The website of barristers’ chambers Thirty Nine Essex Street provides access to information on Planning, Environment & Property from 2014 onwards. The website provides access to newsletters, research papers and information on some cases.
Website of the Association of Costs Lawyers (ACL), the organisation representing and regulating costs lawyers in the UK. Resources on the site include a list of members and the rules relating to costs lawyers. Parts of the site are restricted to members.
Legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. The website’s Council Meetings pages provide information about legislative proceedings and make available bills, draft subsidiary legislation, ordinances, subsidiary legislation, legislative papers and parliamentary questions from the current and two previous sessions. A large set of older materials – going back to 1884 - may be found on the Records of the Legislature pages.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is the highest court of appeal for the UK’s overseas territories and crown dependencies, and for certain Commonwealth countries. Its website provides a description of the Committee’s work, together with biographies of the justices, practice directions, rules and forms. Judgments are available from November 2009 onwards (earlier judgments are on the Privy Council Office website and BAILII) and summaries of pending cases are also provided.
Website of Gibraltar’s Public Services Ombudsman, who deals with complaints about government departments and agencies. A few Special Reports (reports of cases where injustice has been found) are available on the site, together with the Ombudsman’s annual reports, which include case summaries. A description of the history and work of the Ombudsman is also provided.
The Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) of Cyprus are British overseas territories with their own administration and legal system. Almost all current SBA legislation is available on the SBA website via an index of legislation in force. There is also an index to repealed and revoked legislation, a list of multilateral treaties applicable to the SBA and a set of constitutional documents. There are descriptions of the court system and procedure, but no judgments are available.
Focus Business Services provides law, tax, accounting and other services for international clients. Cyprus double taxation treaties and Cypriot tax and companies legislation are available in English on its website, together with general tax and company information relating to Cyprus.
The decisions of the Supreme Court of Cyprus are available on this site from 1976 to 2003, as published in the Cyprus Law Reports. The interface and many of the older reports are in English, but from about 1990 onwards the reports are in Greek. The resource is provided free by technology company NetVeil Ltd, as a demonstration of their capabilities.
