Website provided by the Queen’s Counsel Selection Panel’s Secretariat. Has information for applicants for the award of Queen’s Counsel (QC). Also includes press releases, and a statistical breakdown of recent applications by gender, ethnicity, area of law and other criteria.
Online version of the Highway Code, on the UK government’s DirectGov website. The Code applies to England, Wales and Scotland. The Introduction includes a link to a page called “The road user and the law”. The site warns that only the Department of Transport’s current printed edition should be used in legal proceedings.
Alphabetical table of nominate reports giving the corresponding volume numbers in the English Reports, together with each report’s abbreviation and the time period and court that it covers. The table is provided by Lancaster University Library.
Guide to researching Gambian law, by Nigerian lawyer Flora Obguitepu. The research guide was published in 2012 (and updated in 2021) on the Globalex website, which is run by the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University. It covers the Gambian legal system, sources of law, the court system, the government, legal publications and websites.
Guide to the legal system of Panama, by Panamanian lawyers Alvaro Aguilar-Alfu and Kedar Rudy. The research guide was published in 2011 on the Globalex website, which is run by the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University. It covers the development of the legal system, Panamanian legal concepts and the court system and government of Panama. Links are provided to legal and governmental websites for the jurisdiction.
This website provides information and analysis relating to death penalty law and practice in around 90 countries. It was established by Professor Sandra Babcock of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern Law School's Bluhm Legal Clinic in the US, in partnership with the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The site’s main component is the Death Penalty Database, covering capital offences; treaty ratifications; national and international cases; methods of execution; statistics on death sentences and executions; and other topics.
The site presents a systematic overview of the cases heard and sentences passed for Nazi Crimes both in East and West Germany. The content is taken from the printed series “Justiz und NS Verbrechen: Sammlung Deutscher Strafurteile wegen nationalsozialistischer Tötungsverbrechen” which began publication in 1945 and is still ongoing. The trials featured are the National Socialist homicidal trials. It is currently possible to browse using different entry points eg. defendants, victims or category of crime.
The Latin American Government Documents Archive (LAGDA) is one of several resources managed by the Latin American Web Archiving Project, which is based at the University of Texas Libraries. Its aim is to preserve and make available archives of websites from the governments of 18 Latin American countries. The archived sites include documents and video and audio recordings. The records available start in 2005-6 and the project is ongoing. The materials can be selected from a list according to jurisdiction and government department and can also be searched by keywords.
The official website for the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO). The JCIO took over the responsibilities of the Office for Judicial Complaints (OJC) in 2013. The website provides information on the role of the JCIO, how to make a complaint about the personal conduct of judicial office holders, relevant rules and regulations, and JCIO/OJC annual reports from 2006. Disciplinary statements are available on the website.
