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Contains a homepage for each practice area (Company Commercial, Property and Dispute Resolution) holding essential resources chosen and compiled by an expert team of solicitors and barristers. LexisPSL provides KnowHow, primary law, precedents, forms and excerpts from authoritative Butterworths commentary. Additionally, links to Lexis Library take you directly to a broader range of relevant legal resources.
Covers the whole spectrum of English law and is designed to enable practitioners to answer the full range of questions likely to arise in the course of their work. It provides a comprehensive narrative statement of the law of England and Wales, containing law derived from every source.
Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents
Available online via Lexis Library (in your bookshelf on the right, or from the Forms and Precedents tab). Comprehensive source of precedents for (non-litigating) solicitors. It contains around 15,000 forms and precedents (including those for sale of land, landlord and tenant, commercial law, wills and trusts, family law).
Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
This database allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications or search a publication title to find the approved abbreviation.
These set out the standards and requirements the SRA expect their regulated community to achieve and observe, for the benefit of the clients they serve and in the public interest.
RSS feeds and email updates can be created with both paid for and free resources so you can easily keep up with developments in the law.
The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR) is the authorised publisher of the official series: The Law Reports for the Superior and Appellate Courts of England and Wales. They provide email and RSS alerts for Latest Case Summaries and Latest Published Cases.
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) is an organisation that aims to make the law available for free on its website. If you are interested in receiving notifications of new judgments from individual courts in the UK, or recent cases of interest, you can set up an RSS feed here: http://www.bailii.org/rss
Court websites
Many courts now publish judgments on their websites and often have an RSS feed option to allow you to stay up-to-date with new judgments. Here are a couple of examples:
Get a certificate of your law research skills!
These comprehensive guides and tutorials provide an in-depth course in using these products. For many databases you can work through a tutorial to receive a certificate of achievement.
