Law databases
Archbold: Criminal Pleading Evidence and Practice (via Westlaw)
- All the material needed when preparing for a case and during a trial.
- Includes both substantive law and practice and procedure of the courts.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Atkin's Court Forms (via Lexis+ UK)
- UK encyclopaedia of civil litigation forms, precedents and procedure.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Blackstone's Criminal Practice (via Lexis+ UK)
- An annual publication from Oxford University Press which covers all areas of criminal law and is divided into 6 different subject areas.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Brightmine (formerly XpertHR)
- A major resource of information for human resources.
- Provides journal articles, case studies, model policies, legislation, statistics, news, commentary, surveys, and analysis.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Butterworths Personal Injury Litigation Service
- Covers all aspects of personal injury law and litigation.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
- A web-based service which allows users to search for the meanings of abbreviations of English-language legal publications or enter the title of a law publication to find the abbreviation.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Chitty on Contracts via Westlaw
- Definitive practitioner text on contract law.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Civil Procedure Rules (White Book), via Westlaw
- The definitive statement on civil procedure. It provides high quality commentary and expert opinion as well as links to primary sources referenced.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Clarke, Hall and Morrison on Children
- Leading work on both the civil jurisdiction of the family courts and the criminal jurisdiction of the youth courts.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Clerk and Lindsell on Torts via Westlaw
- Definitive practitioner text on torts.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Curia: European Court of Justice
- Case-law database on the official web site of the European Court of Justice (as well as the General Court and the European Union Civil Service Tribunal).
- NOT included in the main library search.
Current Sentencing Practice, via Westlaw
- A comprehensive service on the law and practice of sentencing in England and Wales.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Edward Elgar Online
- A journal and e-book selected collection which you can browse, read on screen, or download.
- Included in the main library search.
Encyclopedia of Compulsory Purchase and Compensation, via Westlaw UK
- A guide to the law relating to the compulsory purchase of land and the compensation provisions.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Encyclopedia of Environmental Health Law and Practice, via Westlaw UK
- Coverage of the legislation and guidance relating to environmental health law.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents
- Covers areas such as sale of land, landlord and tenant, commercial law, wills and trusts, and family law.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Encyclopedia of Highway Law and Practice, via Westlaw UK
- A major work on highway law including full text of all relevant legislation, complete with annotations.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Encyclopedia of Housing Law and Practice, via Westlaw UK
- Aimed at practitioners and includes commentary on all relevant legislation.
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
- Covers a wide range of topics, including key organisations, events, and leading figures.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Encyclopedia of Local Government Law, via Westlaw UK
- Acts and regulations, with a detailed commentary and full references to relevant judicial authorites.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Encyclopedia of Planning Law and Practice, via Westlaw UK
- A comprehensive source of guidance and policy on planning law.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Encyclopedia of Road Traffic Law and Practice, via Westlaw UK
- Comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information on road traffic law and practice.
- NOT included in the main library search.
English Reports, via HeinOnline
- Covers the decisions of the English Courts prior to the start of the Law Reports in 1865.
- NOT included in the main library search.
EThOS
- British Library database of full-text UK Higher education research theses.
- NOT included in the main library search.
EUR-Lex
- Direct access to European Union law.
- Subject areas: Europe; Law; European Union; EU
- NOT included in the main library search.
European Sources Online
- Information on the institutions and activities of the European Union, the countries, regions, and other international organisations of Europe.
FAME
- Company accounts, ratios, activities, ownership, and management for the largest 2.6 million UK and Irish companies plus summary information for a further 1 million smaller businesses.
- NOT included in the main library search.
FLAG (Foreign Law Guide)
- Holdings of foreign primary-source materials in UK libraries.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Halsbury's Laws of England (via Lexis+ UK)
- A general legal encyclopaedia covering the whole spectrum of English law.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Halsbury's Statutes Citator (via Lexis+ UK)
- Provides a citation for the current status of over 7,600 statutes. There are links through to the full text.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Halsbury's Statutes known as UK Parliament Acts on Lexis+ UK
- UK Parliament Acts contain the full, amended text of all public general Acts that are currently in force.
- Legislation that has been recently enacted but is not yet in force is also included.
- Public general Acts that are no longer in force do not appear in full text but a note explains why the enactment no longer applies.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Hansard
- Edited verbatim report of proceedings in the Commons Chamber, Westminster Hall, and Standing Committees.
- Contains written ministerial statements and written answers.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law
- Provides commentary on industrial relations and employment law and practice.
- It analyses the law, and fills in the practical background.
- NOT included in the main library search.
HeinOnline
- A full-text, searchable archive of law journals.
- Pages appear as they would in the original hardcopy including all charts, graphs, and photographs.
- Included in the main library search.
HUDOC
- Provides access to the case-law of the Court, the European Commission of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers.
- NOT included in the main library search.
i-Law
- A commercial law database offering specialist commentary and analysis as well as access to some case reports in maritime and commercial law.
- Includes cases.
- NOT included in the main library search.
ICLR Online
- Incorporated Council of Law Reporting Online provides full-text access to the The Law Reports for the Superior and Appellate Courts of England and Wales.
- Includes court ready PDFs, WLR daily case summaries and a citator.
- NOT included in the main library search.
IDS Employment Law Handbook via Westlaw
- Expert guidance on the wider implications of new judgments and legislation, flagging up trends in employment litigation and practice.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, via HeinOnline
- Index to articles and book reviews appearing in more than 500 legal journals published worldwide.
- Coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, the UK, Canada, and Australia.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text
- A bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law books published or edited in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
JSTOR
- UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
- A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.
Kemp on Lawtel (via Westlaw Edge UK)
- A collection of personal injury quantum reports and practice tools.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Law Trove
- Provides full text access to 200 Oxford University Press (OUP) Law textbooks.
- Included in the main library search.
Lawtel
- A current awareness service for legal practitioners.
- Provides access to comprehensive personal injury information.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Legislation.gov.uk (via Westlaw Edge UK)
- UK Parliament Public General Acts (from 1988) onwards and all Local Acts (from 1991) onwards.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Lexis+ UK
- Covers UK legal materials including cases, legislation, journal articles, and practitioner texts.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Lexis Practical Guidance
- Current legal information briefings applied to Commercial, Corporate, Employment and Tax.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Lexis+ UK International
- International legal materials from a range of sources (cases, legislation, forms & precedents, and secondary materials).
- Includes cases.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Lindley and Banks on Partnership (via Westlaw)
- Definitive practitioner text on partnership law, covering both general and limited partnership.
- NOT included in the main library search.
LinkedIn Learning (previously Lynda.com)
- Video training for a vast number of software products, IT topics, and design and business skills.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Nexis
- Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers, and worldwide newspapers and magazines.
- Includes access to the Financial Times.
- Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Orbis
- Comparable global data resource on private and public companies.
- Contains 10 years of historical data.
- NOT included in the main Library Search.
Overton
- A searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Oxford English Dictionary Online
- The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Practical Law
- Legal know-how covering practice notes, standard documents and drafting notes, and the practical implications of key developments.
- NOT included in the main library search.
ProQuest Criminal Justice
- U.S. and international criminal justice journals including abstracts and indexing for 250 titles.
- Included in the main library search.
PsycBooks (APA PsycBooks)
- A crucial research tool for the behavioural sciences.
- Access to 3,733 scholarly titles within psychology and its sub-fields.
SAGE Research Methods
- A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
- SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
- Included in the main library search.
Simon's Direct Tax Service
- An authorative source on UK income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and international taxation.
- Includes worked examples and is cross-referenced to the legislation, source materials and tax treaties.
- NOT included in the main library search.
The Times Digital Archive
- Access to back issues of The Times (London) newspaper online.
- One of the most highly regarded resources for the study of 18th century history and onward.
- Included in the main library search.
UK Parliamentary Papers
- Includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to 2005, with supplementary material back to 1688.
- UKPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing.
- NOT included in the main library search.
vLex Justis
- An online legal research tool that allows you to find the key current legal authorities (case law, legislation) for a topic.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Westlaw Edge UK
- Used extensively in legal practice, providing full-text access to current and historic UK, European Union and worldwide case reports and legislation.
- Includes access to the Legal Journals Index, some full text law journals, and many law electronic books.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Westlaw International
- Westlaw International is an additional resource to Westlaw Edge UK.
- The general subscription covers legal materials from non-UK English speaking jurisdictions such as the United States and Canada, Asian materials and international treaties.
- NOT included in the main library search.
White Book (Civil Procedure Rules), via Westlaw
- The definitive statement on civil procedure.
- Provides high quality commentary and expert opinion as well as links to primary sources referenced.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Woodfall: Landlord and Tenant, via Westlaw
- Woodfall's Landlord and Tenant is the definitive guide to all aspects of landlord and tenant law
- NOT included in the main library search.
XpertHR
- A major resource of information for human resources.
- Provides journal articles, case studies, model policies, legislation, statistics, news, commentary, surveys, and analysis.
- NOT included in the main library search.
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