UK Law Resources

Links to English Legal Sites

Contents

• Firms of solicitors on the WWW
• Law, Compliance and Regulation
• Other Links
• Extracts from The Legal Information Network (as formerly maintained by the Law Society

Firms of solicitors on the WWW

• The Centre for Commercial Law Home Page has information from The Legal 500 with data on each firm featured and has links to law firms' own home pages
• Delia Venables has a series of Legal Resources Pages with information for potential clients to identify lawyers and for lawyers themselves
• Most of the big City firms now have an Internet site including the following Top-40 English firms (ranked according to Total fee earners worldwide (1998) (except for foreign firms) by the Centre for Commercial law):
  • Clifford Chance.
  • Eversheds.
  • Linklaters.
  • Freshfields.
  • Allen & Overy.
  • Dibb Lupton Alsop.
  • Cameron McKenna
  • Lovell White Durrant.
  • Simmons & Simmons.
  • Herbert Smith.
  • Slaughter and May.
  • Norton Rose.
  • Ashurst Morris Crisp.
  • Irwin Mitchell.
  • Shoosmiths & Harrison.
  • Nabarro Nathanson.
  • Denton Hall.
  • Pinsent Curtiss.
  • Wilde Sapte.
  • Wragge & Co.
  • Masons.
  • Clyde & Co.
  • Edge & Ellison.
  • Barlow Lyde & Gilbert.
  • Thompsons.
  • Rowe & Maw.
  • Baker & McKenzie.
  • Bevan Ashford.
  • Berwin Leighton.
  • Walker Morris.
  • Taylor Joynson Garrett.
  For more links to law firms, see Delia Venables' Firms of Solcitors on the World Wide Web, the Law Society's links to the home pages of solicitors' firms on the World Wide Web or Yahoo's list.
  

Law, Compliance and Regulation

• Since 8th February, 1996, Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) started adding summaries and full texts of UK Acts of Parliament to their Internet site. With effect from the first Public General Act of 1996, all new Public General Acts (and the Data Protection Act 1984) have been and are intended to be published in full text form and with effect from the first Local Act of 1997, all new Local Acts have been and are intended to be published in full text form. The aim is that all new Acts of Parliament should be published on the Internet within 10 working days of their publication in printed form, and all Statutory Instruments starting with the first printed one of 1997 will be published on the Web site within 15 working days, in each case after publication in printed form.
• Jonathan Halsey's excellent UK Compliance Officers' Site includes a regulators page linking to the homepages of investment and securities regulators (some regulators provide the text of their rulebooks online) and an associations page covering some of the various trade bodies that have an interest in the investment industry.
  Since he covers a number of areas of interest to me in my professional specialities, I liked this site. He includes links to a number of UK and other regulators including
  • the UK Financial Services Authority (formerly the Securities and Investments Board or SIB),
  • HM Treasury,
  • the Inland Revenue,
  • the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and
  • the Jersey Financial Services Commission (the successor to the Financial Services Department).
  There's a lot more so it's worth a look
• The Data Protection Registrar is now online including a summary of the Data Protection Act and his full annual report
• There are a great many governmental sites maintained on the CCTA Government Information Service server (by the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency) including the Law Commission as well as local authorities (or links to them) and other legal sites.

Other Links

This is a miscellaneous collection of links that caught my eye at one time or another!

• The Society for Computers & Law's home page
• Information for Lawyers has a good selection of British legal links, including some that are not in the Law Society list extracted below or my selection here. Access speed has dramatically improved as well. I like the new improved version.
• The British Library is now online and provides access to the Magna Carta
• The Law Journal Extra also has Internet-related legal information
• Tyndallwoods has started a pro bono legal service for the community and environmental groups accessible via the internet
• Lawnet online (limited) legal service (https secure protocol)
• The Universities of Warwick and Strathclyde online Journal of Information, Law and Technology is now available
• The British Official Publications Current Awareness Service (BOPCAS) provides, free-of-charge, a World Wide Web searchable database; lists of recent UK Official Publications categorised by date; department; publication type and subject area
• The Law Society of England and Wales has a new web site with information on becoming a solicitor and training.
• There is a separate Internat Law Web site with free access to their extensive legal links database accessed via a search engine replacing the old (no longer maintained) Alphabetic List of (mainly US) Law Resources on the Internet. Before the listing was abandoned, I extracted some of the links more obviously relevant to England or the UK below. I didn't select on the basis of any judgment as to usefulness.

Extracts from The Legal Information Network

This list is not maintained any longer

Jump to the appropriate section of the list by clicking on a letter:

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• Belfast Law School (Queen's University of Belfast, Faculty and School of Law) (UK)
• Bird & Bird's Office on the Web [corrected URL (again)]
• Bodleian Law Library [this is a gopher site, but there is also a Web site with links to library catalogues and other sites]
• University of Bristol Faculty of Law (UK) [Andrew Hougie's note - this site has some good links to UK and other legal resources]
• Business Legal Support legal education in the UK
• Chadwick Nott Recruitment UK Jobs in the Legal and Accountancy marketplace.
• CompuForms Electronic Forms Over 600 statutory forms compatible with MS Word 6.0 and WordPerfect InForms.
• Coopers & Lybrand the UK's largest organisation of chartered accountants and management consultants.
• Copyright Law Myths - Usenet FAQ
• The DMR Information and Technology Group Providing Legal Information Services and Computer Software Solutions to the UK Legal Community
• Electronic Forms Over 600 statutory forms compatible with MS Word 6.0 and WordPerfect InForms.
• EURO-LEX List. All European Legal Information Exchange List
• The European Commission
• European Commission Legal Advisory Board
• EC - Maastricht Treaty
• Faegre & Benson Professional Law Practice in USA, UK, Germany and Kazakhstan (a tasteful Web Site)
• Fox Williams City of London business law firm
• Hieros Gamos A Comprehensive Site for the Legal Profession. With virtually every organization, bar association, law school, vendor, service provider, etc. listed by name, address, telephone, fax and contact, the site is one of if not the largest in the legal profession. Links have been established to all known organizations currently on the Internet in the legal profession. HG is one if not the only site that is also in five languages.
• I'M - Europe Information Market - Europe. An initiative of Directorate-General XIII of the EC to provide the World Wide Web with information about Europe and the European electronic information market. [Also has the European Union Home Page and links to other related sites]
• Interleges international association of 20 independent law firms, one in each of the United States, Canada, and the nations of the European Union, and in other key countries of Eastern Europe, including the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary.
• International Association of Constitutional Law
• EC - Maastricht Treaty
• How not to be a Money launderer by Nigel Morris-Cotterill
• The University of Newcastle Web Journal of current legal issues
• University of Newcastle Law School
• Parking Appeals Service site a tribunal established to deal with appeals arising from parking tickets issued under Road Traffic Act 1991.
• Practical Solutions for Lawyers UK based consultancy for Business Affairs
• Recruitment UK Jobs in the Information Technology marketplace from EXE Magazine.
• Recruitment UK Jobs in the Legal and Accountancy marketplace from Chadwick Nott.
• Sweet & Maxwell, Legal Publishers
• United Kingdom - CCTA Government Information Service Central government information in the U.K.
• United Kingdom - Historical Documents Related to Law. Includes the Magna Carta [Andrew Hougie's note - I couldn't get on to this but the Magna Carta is also available from the British Library's site referred to above]
• UK Law Practices
• University of Warwick's Law Technology Centre (Gopher)
• University of Warwick Law Technology Centre home page
• University of Warwick Law Courseware
• Waterlow - Legal and Company Services
• Web Journal of Current Legal Issues
• About the University of Westminster Law School
• World Wide Legal Information Association (WWLIA)
  • International Legal Dictionary
  • International Legal News

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