English Legal Sources Available through BLS Library

• Lexis+ > in left frame of screen, click: Legal News Hub.  If visible, click: All Sections.  If "All Sections" is not visible, click the three parallel lines (on right of screen) > then click: All Sections.  Scroll down screen & click: UK. 

  • BLS students, faculty and administrators can select these Law360 UK topics:

    • Commercial Litigation UK, Corporate Crime & Compliance UK, Employment UK, Financial Services UK, Insurance UK, Intellectual Property UK, Pulse UK (= news about the business of law and regulation of the legal industry), and Transactions UK.

    • Tip: At subscription site Law360.com UK, it appears that BLS researchers can only access "Top Stories." 

      • BLS researchers can use Lexis+ Legal News Hub > All Sections > UK  to obtain the text of additional Law360 UK legal news stories/analysis.

• Westlaw database: United Kingdom Current Awareness describes legal and regulatory developments in the U.K.  Searchable.  BLS students, faculty and administrators also can select narrower databases:

  • Agriculture, Bills, Cases, Communications/Media/IT, Company/Commercial, Constitutional & Administrative Law, Corporate Business Highlights, Criminal Justice, Damages, Employment, European Union, Family/Social Welfare, Finance & Banking, Human Rights, Human Rights Highlights, Immigration, Insolvency, Intellectual Property/Communications Media Highlights, International Law, Landlord & Tenant, Legal Profession, Legislation, Litigation Highlights, Local Government, Newspapers & Journals, Planning & Environment, Private Client, Property, Scots Law, Shipping, Tax, Torts, Transportation, Utilities & Industries, and Official Publications & Press Releases.

• Additional database: Westlaw UK tab: Current Awareness pull-down menu link:
  • Current Awareness Search, Today, and Best of the last 5 days.

• Thomson Reuters Practical Law: UK Home > Legal updates  Searchable.  BLS students, faculty and administrators also can select a specific practice area.

• Lexis+ > Legal Research > Explore Content: News > International by Geography > Europe.  Post-search filters support narrowing results by subjects and sources.   

• Lexis+ > Legal Research > Explore Content: News > International by Country and Region > England & Wales or United Kingdom. 

• Scan headlines at The Times (London).  BLS researchers can find the text of many stories published in The Times (London), including today's stories, through path: Lexis+ > Legal Research > type in search box: the times london > click: The Times (London). 

• Tip: BLS students, faculty and administrators also can create their own accounts in FT.com (= Financial Times).  To register for an account, access BLS Library's SARA catalog record for FT.com > in line: Online resources, click: (FT.COM) - REGISTRATION REQUIRED (One-Time Account Set Up). 

News Now: UK Law

• Culls U.K. legal news from thousands of websites.

GOV.UK includes:

• Government Activity: News and communications
• Retained EU law dashboard