BAILII primarily provides recent British, Irish and European cases.
Tip: Includes Case Lists (A-Z case name indexes) and Case Law Search template.
Reporters published by The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for
The Law Reports (1865-) and Weekly Law Reports (1953-) are available in ICLR Online subscription database. In the SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION--ICLR. (Campus/BLS residence use or implement proxy instructions.)
The Law Reports
Current series of The Law Reports:
There are also many privately published reports, such as the general All England Law Reports (1936-) and the subject-specific Criminal Appeal Reports. See box: Databases that Include Cases from Other Sources.
Westlaw: United Kingdom Cases
https://lawschool.westlaw.com > click link at top of screen: Westlaw, TWEN, Practical Law... > in pull-down menu, select: Westlaw UK Edge (which directs researchers to: Westlaw Edge UK). See this helpful Westlaw UK User Guide: About Cases Content. But note: The Law Reports series published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales is not available to BLS patrons.
Includes tab: Cases
Cases Search template
Courts (to search for decisions by court)
Path: Lexis+ for Law School > tab: Go to Lexis+ > Explore Content: tab: International > United Kingdom > All United Kingdom Cases
Includes unreported cases (1980-).
Bloomberg Law > Browse All Content: All Legal Content Search > Select Sources by Global Jurisdiction > Europe > United Kingdom > Courts
English Reports (scope: 1220-1873, coverage varies by court, based on when a court came into existence)
English Reports, Full Reprint (Campus/BLS residence use or implement proxy server instructions.)
CommonLII, free English Reports database
Reference work that evaluates the quality of nominate reports:
John William Wallace, The Reporters: Arranged and Characterized with Incidental Remarks (4th ed., 1882) (Campus/BLS residence use or implement proxy server instructions.)
Year Books (1268-1535)
David J. Seipp, compiler, Legal History: The Year Books
Indexes and summarizes law reports published in the Year Books. Links to selected texts.
BLS Library catalog searches:
This search yields all BLS Library holdings of the Year Books Series published by the Selden Society.
Use the search below if you are seeking a year book from a specific sovereign's reign.
Keyword search: year books [sovereign’s name]
Example: keyword search: year books henry vi
J.H. Baker & S.F.C. Milsom, Sources of English Legal History: Private Law to 1750 (1986)
One-volume work that includes the English language text of some old, key cases.
Westlaw Edge UK: Cases Search template
Enter parties, citation or words in case text.
https://lawschool.westlaw.com > click link at top of screen: Westlaw, TWEN, Practical Law... > in pull-down menu, select: Westlaw UK Edge (which directs researchers to: Westlaw Edge UK).
Cases pull-down menu includes option: Cite & Print. Enter multiple cites separated by semi-colons or enter multiple cites on separate lines.
ICLR Online (includes The Law Reports) provides a case citator (see: cases citing).
Westlaw provides United Kingdom Case Law Locator.
https://lawschool.westlaw.com > click link at top of screen: Westlaw, TWEN, Practical Law... > in pull-down menu, select: Westlaw UK Edge > tab: Cases -- retrieve a case and look for: Case Analysis, Case Analytics (includes a Precedent Map & [Judicial] Treatment)
Free LawCite provides an automatically generated case & legal journal citator.
Civil Procedure:
GOV.UK, CPR Rules & Practice Directions
Westlaw UK Edge includes:The White Book 2023 (= "the CPR and associated commentary")
Criminal Procedure:
GOV.UK, Criminal Procedure Rules and Practice Directions 2020 (last updated April 3, 2023)
Westlaw UK Edge includes: Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice 2023 ed.
Bloomberg Law > Browse All Content: All Legal Content Search > Select Sources by Global Jurisdiction > Europe >
Includes case documents filed with the
The Queen's Bench Division filings include Commercial Court, Queen's Bench Division filings and Technology and Construction Court filings, as well as some Administrative Court filings.
Westlaw Edge UK: Searchable Queen's Bench Division and Chancery Division Dockets