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Westlaw is produced by Thomson Reuters and is one of major UK Legal databases. It is a subscription database and available to OU members with an Oxford SSO.
Law Reports and Cases
- The Law Reports series - 1865 onwards
- Weekly Law Reports
- A large number of subject specialist reports
- The English Reports (reprint of the nominate reports)
- Unreported transcripts
- Case Analysis documents including case summaries and citator information
Legislation
- Fully consolidated full text of acts since 1267 (currently in force)
- Statutory Instruments since 1948 (currently in force)
- Selected historical versions of acts
Journals
- The Legal Journals Index which has abstracts of every UK published legal article from 1986
- A large number of full text journals including the Criminal Law Review, Public Law, Cambridge Law Journal and Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Books
- The Common Law Series including Chitty on Contract and Clerk and Lindsell on Tort
- Dicey and Morris on Conflict of Laws
- White Book (Civil Procedure)
- Archbold on Criminal Procedure
British Law Silk
Guides and tutorials
British Law Schools
See the Legal Skills Libguide for a list of guides and tutorials.
The UK hard copy collection in the Bodleian Law Library is mostly situated on the main floor of the library. Law reports are at Cw UK 100, and journals at Cw UK 300. UK legal monographs are catalogued using different classmarks which allows for easier browsing, this section starts at K through to KZ before the main run of law reports and journals. Hard copy legislation can be found on Floor 1.
There is a multi-volume encyclopaedia which covers the law of England and Wales called Halsbury's Laws of England which is a great place to start your research and this can be found at K1 or it is available online on Lexis®Library. Alternatively you can search SOLO for other resources.
British Law Society
There is no one database that contains all UK legal material but the 2 main databases are Westlaw UK and Lexis®Library. OU members can access both using their Oxford Single Sign On details. For information on these, and for a list of other useful electronic resources (including free resources) then see the database section in the left hand column or look at the specific tab above for specific types of material.