Westlaw UK and Lexis®Library both have UK law reports from 1220 onwards, with case citators for updating purposes.The Law Reports (the leading UK series, published by ICLR) and some other series are on both Westlaw and Lexis, but for the most part the collections do not overlap: for example, only Lexis has the All England Law Reports, Commercial Law Cases is on Westlaw but not on … It also has Northern Ireland Orders in Council* from 1991 onwards as amended. These are statutory instruments made by the Welsh authorities since devolution; they have reference numbers prefixed 'W.' A list of all legal databases in the Bodleian are contained on our website at The Law Reports series - from 1865; The All England Reports (main series as well as specialist series) The UK database collects and stores the information of thousands of UK and Irish court cases where a offender has been convicted and sentenced. Northern Ireland Orders in Council are Northern Ireland statutes published in the form of UK statutory instruments. These are the most useful databases of English law: BAILII: Freely available British and Irish public legal information.
Westlaw includes UK SIs applying only to Scotland, but Lexis does not.Is from 1949 onwards.
In pursuit of these goals, the Library has built a collection in excess of 850,000 volumes representing 340,000 titles in a variety of print, microform, and electronic formats. Publishing all UK legislation is a core part of the remit of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), part of The National Archives, and the Office of the Queen's Printer for Scotland. Contents include:Justis One is a new combined database incorporating Justis and JustCiteThis is a free database produced by the UK Government. OU members have access to the Maritime material which includes:If you are interested in inter or cross disciplinary research areas/topics, the A-Z Database list can help you discover those which are available at Oxford, the majority are those to which the Bodleian has a subscription but there are some OA/free web sources included when these have been recommended by subject librarians.Lexis Library is produced by Lexis Nexis (formally Butterworths) and is one of the major UK legal databases. It is a subscription database which is available to OU members via Oxlip+.
Database rights that exist in the UK prior to exit will continue to exist in the UK for the remainder of their duration. On this page is a selection of some of the major UK databases. Under the terms of its licence the material it can include is restricted which means that the more recent articles may not be available (and it differs from title to title). Lexis Library is produced by Lexis Nexis (formally Butterworths) and is one of the major UK legal databases. This website is managed by The National Archives on behalf of HM Government. Do a Title search for the name of the journal (not the article), for example, If the journal is available online at IALS, there is usually a link on the catalogue record (however, not all the journals on Lexis®Library currently have links from the Catalogue).Dawson ERA: selected e-books from various different publishers, some of which are about UK lawElgaronline: e-books from Edward Elgar Publishing, including UK law titlesHart e-book collection: law titles from Hart Publishing, including some focusing on the UKLegal Classics library includes important UK law treatises from the Oxford Scholarship Online: law e-books from Oxford University Press that are classed as postgraduate-level or higher (does not include textbooks or handbooks); includes UK titlesWestlaw UK: over 300 books and encyclopedias, most of them on UK lawWestlaw has unreported cases from 1967 onwards; Lexis has them from 1980 onwards.Westlaw has numerous Scottish law reports, including Westlaw UK has Westminster acts as amended. There are online tutorials for these on the Legal Research Skills Libguide.