The Cabinet Office has been described as the "head office" of government. It performs a variety of functions in support of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, including some aspects of Civil Service staffing management and the reform of the Civil Service. This section of the GOV.UK web site provides access to information on its activities, policies, announcements and publications, and to information more widely across the whole government. Specific Cabinet Office publications such as the Ministerial Code and the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers may best be found via a Publications search.

This page on the Cabinet Office web site provides information about the process of scrutiny by UK parliamentary EU select committees, and evidence supplied by the government on EU documents deposited in Parliament, allowing government Explanatory Memoranda on these documents to be viewed.

Cafcass (the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) is a government agency set up to look after the interests of children involved in family court proceedings. The site is largely aimed at the general public, but it has a section (within "About Cafcass") on "The law about children". The “Publications” section contains a selection of publications and reports and a "Resources for Cafcass staff" area which includes a variety of policy and guidance documents, and “News” includes an archive of press releases 2009 onwards.

Cains is an Isle of Man based law firm with offices also in London and Singapore. Its web site includes several "Briefings" on aspects of Manx law, particularly in relation to its status as an international finance centre.

The major academic and reference publisher Cambridge University Press has an extensive law list. The Law section of the online catalogue is arranged primarily by legal topic and also includes an online version of the current hard copy Law Catalogue. The site includes search and online ordering facilities.

The Campaign for Freedom of Information is an independent non-party, non-profit organisation campaigning to improve access to official information. The site includes information and commentary on the Freedom of Information Act 2000, its implementation, and issues concerning its present operation, as well as links to the relevant legislation.

The Canada Gazette is Canada's official newspaper, divided into three parts: Part I, Notices and proposed regulations; Part II, Regulations; Part III, Acts of Parliament. This site contains Gazettes from 1998 onwards. The Canada Gazette is available in both pdf and html format. The pdf version is regarded as official from 2003 onwards.

This site is maintained by the Treaty Section of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. It provides information on (and in some cases the text of) treaties entered into by Canada, whether bilateral, multilateral or plurilateral. There is in addition a lengthy chapter on treaty practice and procedure.

The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) is a voluntary professional organisation whose members include approximately two thirds of all practising lawyers in Canada. Freely accessible site content includes an archive of news releases 1999 onwards, calendar of events, code of professional conduct, information on facilities available to members, and the monthly magazine National, January 2012 onwards. The CBA's official journal Canadian Bar Review is amongst content accessible only by members.

CanLII is the Canadian Legal Information Institute, a gateway site developed by LexUM (University of Montreal) for the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. Federal and provincial case law and legislation may be searched or browsed individually, or the whole database searched.

This research guide on the GlobaLex site was prepared by Don Ford, Foreign, Comparative and International Law Librarian at the University of Iowa College of Law. It includes a general overview of the subject, followed by sections relating to the Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran Churches, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons). Each section includes lists of print sources and links to relevant web sites. This edition is dated May 2010: the original edition dated June/July 2007 is also accessible.

Extensive legal abbreviations index, with coverage concentrated on English language legal publications from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, together with selected major foreign language publications. The emphasis is on law reports and legal periodicals, with the addition of some legislative publications and major textbooks. The index can be searched from title to abbreviation, as well as from abbreviation to title.

This site provides free basic information on social and health care law and practice in the UK. Its “Care and Health Law database” includes full text of relevant legislation, case digests and articles. For those requiring in-depth analysis there is also a subscription option. The site, produced by solicitor and former barrister Belinda Schwehr, is updated weekly.

CSSIW is the body responsible for regulating and inspecting establishments and agencies which provide social care services in Wales. Links to legislation are provided in the section "The Law". Other sections have inspectorate reports, annual reports, newsletters, information leaflets, and details of the complaint procedure.

The Care Council for Wales, set up under the Care Standards Act 2000, is responsible for registering and regulating social workers and social care workers in Wales. Its online register is searchable. Other site content includes codes of practice, guidance on the complaint procedure, consultations, recent annual reports, newsletters and e-bulletins.

Care Inspectorate is the day to day working name of the body whose formal name is Social Care and Social Work Improvement Scotland (SCSWIS). It regulates and inspects social care, social work and child protection services in Scotland. Documentation on the site includes guidance, inspection reports, and documents relating to inspection, complaints and enforcement. Archived publications include those of the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care ("the Care Commission"), the body which was replaced by SCSWIS on 1 April 2011.

The Care Quality Commission regulates all health and adult social care in England, and protects the rights of people detained under the Mental Health Act. Established under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, it replaced the Commission for Social Care Inspection, the Healthcare Commission and the Mental Health Act Commission on 1 April 2009. The site provides background information, consultations, guidance and other documents, including key publications of the bodies it replaced.

The First-tier Tribunal (Care Standards) hears appeals under the legislation relating to the care of children and vulnerable adults in England and Wales. It was originally established under the Protection of Children Act 1999 as the Protection of Children Act Tribunal, and has since 3 November 2008 formed part of the First-tier Tribunal's Health, Education and Social Care Chamber. There is background information about the Tribunal and its jurisdiction; links to relevant legislation; guidance on the appeals process and procedures; forms; and links to published decisions (including those of its predecessor the Registered Homes Tribunal) on the Tribunals Judiciary web site.

The Care Tribunal was established under the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 to hear appeals against decisions relating to the regulation of care services and to the employment and registration of social workers in Northern Ireland. Information on its web site includes a guide to the appeals process and procedures, links to legislation, and published decisions to date.

Carey Olsen is a law firm with offices in Jersey, Guernsey, the Cayman Islands and London. The site's Publications section contains a number of articles relating to Jersey and Guernsey law.

This Court was established in 2005, and in addition to replacing the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as a court of final appeal for member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), it is vested with an original jurisdiction in respect of the interpretation and application of the Treaty Establishing the Caribbean Community. The web site contains the Rules of the court, information on the judges and on the administration of the court. All judgments of the Court are available, in pdf.

This guide, on the LLRX.com web site, is written by Yasmin Morais, Resident Librarian at Georgetown University Law Center, Edward Bennett Williams Law Library, Washington, D.C., and was published February 2008. It traces the court's history and outlines its mandate and structure. It also provides information on the court's funding, its justices and recent judgments.

CaribInLaw is a gateway site providing legal information relating to English-speaking Caribbean countries. Within each country in the Country Links section the information is sub-divided as follows: Government Departments and Institutions; Legislation; Treaties; Judgments; Lawyers, Law Firms and Legal Institutions; Legal Articles; and General. Other site sections include Regional Links and General Links.

Casecheck is a free service for which registration is required. It provides summaries of cases in the Scottish High Court, Sheriff Court and EAT (with links to the full-text decision in each case) and weekly current awareness bulletins. Cases are classified by subject. Some have associated commentary ("expert opinions"). The monthly archive extends back to 2000.

The official web site of the Cayman Islands Government provides information about the legal system and contacts for government departments and agencies. There is a link to the separate web site of the government's Gazette Office, where legal notices are available in the Cayman Islands Gazette 2004 onwards and Acts, Regulations and Bills in the Gazette supplement, also 2004 onwards. Also available on the Gazette Office site is the latest annual Consolidated Index of Laws and Subsidiary Legislation in force.

This site, part of the Lowtax Global Tax & Business portal, provides information and news regarding the legal and tax regimes primarily of "low-tax" or offshore jurisdictions. The "Cayman Islands Law of Offshore" section here concentrates on Trust law, Banking, Insurance and Mutual Funds. The regime is discussed in some detail; however individual statutes are not reproduced in full.

Cayman Islands Laws and Regulations relating to banking, trusts, companies, insurance, investment business etc. are available on this web site, as well as the Authority's own Regulatory Handbook. See "Regulatory Framework".

This is an official web site shared by two Cayman Islands administrations: the Judicial Administration and the Portfolio of Legal Affairs. It provides information on the courts and their officers, court rules and practice directions, and lists of attornies and law firms. Provision of case law is in development. At the moment there are cases from the Cayman Islands Law Reports, 1952-2010. Access is free of charge but registration is required. Legislation is accessible via an alphabetical list. Anonymised Grand Court judgments 2004-2005 are available without registration.

The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) acts as the liaison between the European Union and Europe's national bars and law societies. Its web site includes the CCBE's Code of Conduct for European Lawyers as well as national codes of conduct, reports from committees looking at various topics and subject areas, position papers, newsletters 2007 onwards and press releases 2005 onwards.

The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a nonprofit organisation which works to use international law and institutions to protect the environment, promote human health, and ensure a just and sustainable society. Its web site includes a wide variety of documents relating to international environmental law, and an archive of press releases 1999 onwards.

The Central Arbitration Committee is an independent body which exercises certain statutory powers relating to the recognition and derecognition of trade unions, and determines certain kinds of disputes between trade unions and employers. It also provides voluntary arbitration in industrial disputes. The site has decisions from June 2000 onwards, details of forthcoming hearings, press releases, recent annual reports, guidance and forms.

The Laws and Regulations section of the Central Bank's web site gathers together the major legislation governing the supervision and regulation of banks, credit unions and other financial institututions in Belize.

The Centre was established by the University of Melbourne in January 1996, its purpose being to undertake and promote research on corporate law, corporate governance and securities regulation. The web site includes a monthly Corporate law bulletin, September 1997 onwards (subscription is required to view the most recent bulletins), a substantial collection of research reports (see Centre Activities>Research), and annual reports, 1996 onwards. The section "History of Australian Corporate Law" includes links to key Australian and UK legislation, reports and other documents from the 1800s onwards.

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS) is an educational charity focusing on crime and the criminal justice system. It runs courses and conferences and publishes research papers, journals and conference reports. Most of its publications are available to download free. Following the discontinuation in 2011 of the HM Prison Service web site it now also hosts the Prison Service Journal September 2010 onwards.

The Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL), at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, promotes the study and understanding of Islamic law and modern Middle East legal systems. The site includes reading lists for the study of Islamic law and a list of publications which have resulted from CIMEL's conferences and lecture series. Some documents are reproduced on the site. Also accessible here is information and materials relating to the 'Honour Crimes' Project which is jointly co-ordinated by CIMEL and INTERIGHTS.

The Certification Officer performs various roles in the regulation of trade unions and employers' associations, including the determination of complaints concerning trade union elections, certain other ballots and breaches of trade union rules. Site content includes all decisions made after August 2001, together with selected earlier key decisions; annual reports 1999/2000 onwards; guidance; and lists of trade unions and employers' associations, with links to those having their own web sites.

Online version of Chambers UK, the evaluative directory of solicitors, barristers, law firms and chambers, published by Chambers and Partners.

Online version of Chambers USA, the evaluative guide to leading lawyers and law firms in the USA, researched and published by UK publisher Chambers and Partners.

Searchable database providing contact details and short descriptions of aims and activities relating to over 160,000 charities in the UK. Search options include sector, name, location, and charity registration number.

The Charity Commission is the regulator and registrar of charities in England and Wales. Its site has a searchable database of all registered charities, which includes records of their financial histories. Publications include Commission decisions, guidance, inquiry reports, regulatory case reports, recent annual reports, press releases, and links to relevant legislation.

The First-tier Tribunal (Charity) hears appeals and applications for review from certain decisions of the Charity Commission, and considers matters referred to it by the Attorney General or by the Charity Commission. It was established by the Charities Act 2006 and has formed part of the First-tier Tribunal's General Regulatory Chamber since 1 September 2009. This section of the Justice portal site includes forms and guidance and a register of current cases. Links are provided to relevant legislation on the Legislation.gov.uk site and to decisions on the Tribunals Judiciary site.

CIPA is the professional and examining body for patent attorneys (also known as patent agents) in the UK. Its site includes a searchable register of patent agents; an overview of the law of patents, trademarks, domain names, industrial designs and copyright; briefing papers (aimed at IP professionals) on matters of current interest; press releases; and links to IP organisations, overseas patent offices and legal texts (chiefly conventions).

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), which was founded in 1930 and granted its Royal Charter in 1994, is a UK based professional body concerned with all aspects of taxation. The “Policy and Technical” section of the web site  includes technical articles from CIOT's monthly journal Tax Adviser January 2000 onwards. "Professional Standards" includes CIOT's byelaws and regulations as well as a number of guidance documents intended for members but freely available on the site. Annual reports 1997 onwards are in the "About Us" section. There is also an archive of press releases January 2001 onwards in "Media Centre."

These legal resources are provided by a Maltese law firm, and comprise outlines of the law on various subjects and a collection of articles.

The Chief Registrar's Office is responsible for the administration of the courts in Malaysia. The web site provides information on the Federal Court, the Court of Appeal and the High Court, and includes cause lists, court rules, practice directions and biographies of senior judiciary. Federal Court and Court of Appeal judgments are available in pdf from 2007 onwards. There are also links to mini-sites relating to the subordinate courts in the various Malaysian states. Much of the content of these is in Malay only.

This section of the Church of England's web site includes a list of Measures of the General Synod of the Church of England in force 1920 onwards, Statutory Instruments relating to the Church of England 1964 onwards, and legislation in progress. The Canons of the Church of England (7th edition 2012) are available to view online. There is also general information on the Synodical legislative process, and information about the Church of England's disciplinary process.

The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) is a professional body representing around 22,000 members. Its web site includes a searchable directory of legal executives, annual reports 2003 onwards, press releases 2008 onwards, the ILEX Professional Standards (IPS) Code of Conduct, and information about education and training. Access to the content of the Institute's official journal The CILEx Journal is restricted to members.

Also known as the Westminster Union List of Periodicals (WULOP), this database provides information on the periodical holdings of all Westminster public libraries. Publications can be searched for by title, subject or location.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) regulates all aspects of civil aviation in the UK. Its functions include economic regulation, safety regulation, consumer protection, and the regulation of airports, air traffic services, airlines, tour operators and air travel organisers. In relation to air traffic services it also has competition powers. The site has an Aviation Legislation section (select "About the CAA" > "Our Role") with links to the Air Navigation Order 2009 and other UK and EU legislation. Also available to download is the full text of the loose-leaf publication CAP 393: Air Navigation: the Order and the Regulations, which sets out the provisions of the Air Navigation Order as amended and regulations made thereunder.

The Civil Justice Council (CJC) is an advisory body which oversees and co-ordinates the modernisation of the civil justice system in England and Wales. It was established in 1998 under the Civil Procedure Act 1997 and is currently sponsored by the Judicial Office. This section of the Judicial Office's site (Judiciary of England and Wales and Tribunals Judiciary) includes information about the CJC's working parties, consultations, responses and other documents on a variety of subjects, and annual reports 2003 onwards.

The Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) apply in the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the county courts in civil cases in England and Wales. The current text of the Rules and related Practice Directions are provided here in the Guidance section of the Justice portal site. There are links to forms and court guides, and the site also includes links to archived consultation papers and responses 2003 onwards.

The Civil Service Commission is a non-departmental public body, independent of Government and of the Civil Service, which regulates recruitment to the Civil Service and hears complaints under the Civil Service Code. Site content includes the Civil Service Code and related guidance, recruitment guidance, annual reports 1996-1997 onwards, and information on the complaints procedure.

Mary Munro and colleagues produce this blog, presenting the latest news on criminal justice issues in Scotland, gathered from news media, government sources and criminal justice organisations. The archive extends back to November 2003.

Regulation of claims management activities was introduced under the Compensation Act 2006 and came fully into force on 23 April 2007. The regulator is the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Content of this section of the Justice web portal includes links to relevant legislation and rules; guidance and policy documents; consultations; and an occasional bulletin. There is also a search facility for checking whether or not a business has been authorised.

The First-tier Tribunal (Claims Management Services) hears appeals from businesses and individuals relating to decisions of the Claims Management Regulator. It was established in February 2007 by the Compensation Act 2006 and has formed part of the General Regulatory Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal since 18 January 2010. This section of the Justice portal site includes procedural rules, forms and guidance, a register of current cases, and a link to decisions on the Tribunals Judiciary web site.

The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) is a global network of over 2500 non-governmental organisations advocating a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC). Its web site provides information on the background and history of the ICC, and on current develpments and cases before the Court. Many ICC publications, and publications of other bodies, are reproduced on the site in addition to those of CICC itself.

The full text of the Code for Leasing Business Premises in England and Wales 2007 may be downloaded either from the web site of the British Property Federation or from this dedicated site, which also provides some additional background information.

Full text of the consolidated code of [Roman Catholic] canon law, dated 2007, cross-referenced by means of hypertext links and including wordlists and concordances.

The Codex Alimentarius Commission was established in 1963 under the joint auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and the World Health Organization to produce international food standards, guidelines and codes of practice. All standards are listed, with the texts of most available for downloading.

Collas Crill was formed in April 2011 by a merger of the law firms Collas Day in Guernsey and Crill Canavan in Jersey. There are articles, newsletters and other publications on various topics in Channel Islands law in the site's "Knowledge & Resources" section.

This UNESCO web site provides a portal to national copyright laws of member states of UNESCO, with links to pdf or html versions of the legislation. The full text of the laws may not be available in English.

Comité Maritime International (CMI) is an international non-governmental organisation, founded in 1897, whose aim is the unification of all aspects of maritime law. Site content includes information on the status of ratification of maritime conventions and a database containing summaries of decisions by national courts on the interpretation of maritime conventions. Publications available for download include the CMI Yearbook 1998 onwards, and documents either on-site or downloadable include both the English and the French texts of the 1994 and 2004 versions of the York-Antwerp Rules.

ComLaw (Commonwealth of Australia Law) is a legal information retrieval system owned by the Attorney-General's Department, permitting full-text searching of legislation of the Commonwealth of Australia. For each item of legislation it is possible to view multiple versions, as in force at various dates. Government notices as published in the Gazette are available from October 2012 onwards. This resource incorporates FRLI (Federal Register of Legislative Instruments) and has replaced SCALEplus, which was decommissioned on 8 October 2010.

The role of the Commissioner for Public Appointments in England and Wales is to regulate, monitor, report and advise on appointments made by UK ministers and by members of the National Assembly for Wales to the boards of around 1100 national and regional public bodies. The post was created in response to the publication in 1995 of the Nolan Committee's first report on Standards in Public Life (Cm 2850). Publications on the site include annual reports 1997-98 onwards, a code of practice, a complaints leaflet and other guidance.

The Commissioner regulates the process by which many of the public appointments in Northern Ireland are made. The post was created in 1995 in response to the publication of the Nolan Committee's first report on Standards in Public Life (Cm 2850). Publications on the site include annual reports 2000/2001 onwards, a code of practice, a complaints leaflet and other guidance.

The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) is the self-regulatory body which creates, revises and enforces the various broadcast and non-broadcast advertising codes that are administered by the Advertising Standards Authority. The codes and other rules and guidance issued by the CAP may be viewed directly online or downloaded as pdf documents.

The CAJ is an organisation campaigning for human rights and civil liberties in Northern Ireland. Publications available online include various key documents, annual reports, press releases, and a monthly newsletter Just News.

The Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) aims to provide one central internet location from which it is possible to search - for free - core legal information from all Commonwealth countries. Depth of coverage varies from country to country, but so far there is at least some primary material (legislation and case law) for all but a very few countries.

The Caribbean Law Project is a resource within CommonLII (the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute) providing access to legal information from all Caribbean jurisdictions. There are two main components. "Databases" contain material available via CommonLII, and "Catalog and Websearch" enables searches of Caribbean law on other web sites. Coverage includes cases, legislation, treaties and other materials.

Based on data provided by Justis, this section of the CommonLII web site includes all of the reports from English Reports, covering the years 1220 to 1873, as pdf page images. The cases can be browsed by name or by year, or the database can be searched via the search options near the top of the page.

Commons Commissioners were appointed under the Commons Registration Act 1965 to settle disputed entries in local authority registers of common land and town and village greens and to determine the ownership of unclaimed common land and greens. Decisions were issued from 1972 onwards. Most decisions of the Commons Commissioners are available to download from this page on the web site of the Association of Commons Registration Authorities (formerly the Commons and Greens Registration and Management Association). The Commons Commissioners were abolished on 1 December 2010.

The Commonwealth Secretariat is the central institution of the Commonwealth. Its web site provides information on the constitution, politics and economics of all Commonwealth member states. The "Rule of Law" section (accessed via "What we do" in the menu bar) includes model laws, reports of conferences and declarations.

The Documents section in this area of the Commonwealth Secretariat site includes a table showing the ratification status of human rights treaties in Commonwealth countries, a number of declarations of principle on human rights, and documents produced by meetings of Commonwealth Heads of Government. The Documents section includes Best Practice guides and a twice-yearly Human Rights Update, January 2003 onwards.

Created by a team at the University of Hong Kong, this is an easily digested guide, mostly in question and answer form, to the Hong Kong legal system, legal sources and a number of specific legal topics. There are links to sources throughout the text.

Companies House, an executive agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, carries out a number of functions, including registration, relating to limited companies and company records in the UK. Basic company information, a list of disqualified directors, forms and guidance booklets are accessible free of charge. An extensive section is devoted to the Companies Act 2006. More detailed information and a range of other services are available as subscription services.

Company Law Club is a web site of Incorporation Services Limited, a Newcastle upon Tyne based firm which provides company registration and related services. Free information on the site includes a searchable and browsable company law database; an annotated list of the main UK companies legislation, with links to full text on the Legislation.gov.uk site; links to government and other company law web sites; and recent newsletters.

The Company Names Tribunal, which was created 1 October 2008, adjudicates on disputes about opportunistic company name and limited liability partnership name registrations. It is administered by the UK Intellectual Property Office. There is a fact sheet (which includes links to legislation), a practice direction, forms and decisions.

The Competion Appeal Tribunal (CAT) hears and decides appeals and other applications or claims involving competition or economic regulatory issues. It was created by the Enterprise Act 2002 and replaced the former Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal. Information and guidance on appeals to the Tribunal includes the text of the Tribunal's rules and a Guide to Proceedings. There are summaries and full documentation (judgments, transcripts, orders, etc) relating to all cases 2001 onwards.

The Competition Authority is an independent statutory body responsible for enforcing Irish and European competition law in Ireland. The site includes decisions 1992 onwards as well as civil and criminal court cases relating to competition law. There is legislation and related guidance, and a range of publications including articles and papers, information booklets, and annual reports 1998 onwards.

The Competition Commission is an independent body responsible for investigating mergers, market shares and conditions, and the regulation of the major regulated industries. Its site provides extensive information on the work of the Competition Commission, which replaced the Monopolies and Mergers Commission in 1999 and currently operates under the Enterprise Act 2002. The "Our Work" section contains details of market investigations, merger inquiries, regulatory references and appeals, and a directory of completed inquiries. There is a link to the National Archives web site for reports of pre-Enterprise Act 2002 inquiries (1950 to 2003).

Competition Law Review is a refereed online journal published twice a year from 2004 onwards by the Competition Law Scholars Forum (CLaSF), an organisation which aims to promote competition law scholarship in the UK, member states of the EU, and states which may accede to the EU. All issues to date are available to download free of charge.

The Competition Tribunal was established in 1999 and adjudicates on such matters as restrictive practices, abuse of dominant position and mergers. The web site includes the Competition Act, the Tribunal's rules, forms, and a large collection of decided cases. The Publications section contains annual reports, 1999/2000 onwards.

This online research facility for compliance officers and others involved in the business of managing investments is provided by Jonathan E. Halsey, a certified public accountant. Coverage is worldwide and the range of links provided includes investment supervisors and regulators, governance codes, associations, exchanges, and investment firms and services.

The Council of the European Union is the EU's main decision-making body. Its web site includes the Council's register of documents 1999 onwards, with access to full text of those documents which have been released to the public under legislation relating to transparency or upon request, and information about the meetings and activities of the Council.

An alphabetical listing of the nations of the world with links to their constitutions, charters and other related documents is provided here by the University of Richmond School of Law.

The Constitution of Ireland (1937) is provided here on the web site of the Department of the Taoiseach. The text is as enrolled on 27 May 1999, with amendments up to November 2004 incorporated. There is also a list of all the amendments effected between 1937 and 2004.

Digitised text of the 1973 Constitution as edited by Makhdoom Ali Khan, published 1986 by Pakistan Publishing House, Karachi, with the addition of amendments up to February 2013.

The new web site of the Constitutional Court was launched in February 2005 to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Court. It includes full text and summaries of the judgments of the Constitutional Court, 1995 onwards, the interim (1993) and final (1996) Constitutions of South Africa, rules of the Court, biographical information on current and former judges, and access to the Library catalogue.

The First-tier Tribunal (Consumer Credit) hears appeals arising from licensing decisions of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and from decisions of the OFT under the Money Laundering Regulations 2007. It came into existence on 1 September 2009, taking over the functions of the Consumer Credit Appeals Tribunal (2008-2009) and forming part of the First-tier Tribunal's General Regulatory Chamber. This section of the Justice portal site includes procedural rules, forms, guidance, and a link to decisions 2008 onwards on the Tribunals Judiciary site.

This is an official site produced by the Secretariat to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It provides the text of the convention, information about meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the convention and other convention bodies, and COP decisions and other recommendations made under the CBD. There are extensive links to other sites and organisations concerned with biodiversity.

Copac is a union catalogue providing free access to the merged online catalogues of over seventy of the major research libraries in the UK and Ireland, including university libraries, the British Library, the National Libraries of Wales and Scotland, and specialist subject libraries.

The Copyright Tribunal (CT), established under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, settles various types of copyright dispute, mainly in the field of collective copyright licensing. Decisions available to download from the site include those of the CT's predecessor, the Performing Right Tribunal, back to 1958. Other content includes procedural rules and an unofficial consolidated version of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

The Legal Information Institute (LII) based at Cornell Law School provides links to the US Code (with update feature) and Constitution, federal and state law, federal court opinions, and Supreme Court opinions (including all SC opinions 1990 onwards and an archive of historic decisions). The site also incorporates Wex, the LII's collaboratively-edited legal dictionary and encyclopedia of legal terms and topics.

The Global section of the Cornell Legal Information Institute site provides links to internet sources of constitutions, legislation, case law and related legal material from around the world, which can be searched by country or by region. It also lists resources and document collections of international law.

This section of the Legal Information Institute web site, produced by Cornell Law School, provides links to resources for Middle Eastern (predominantly Islamic) countries. Inccludes links to constitutions, Government sites and legislation where available.

The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, at Stockwell underground station on 22 July 2005, was held from 22 September 2008 to 12 December 2008. This official site, now archived by the National Archives, includes hearing transcripts, documentary evidence, the coroner's rulings, press notices and background information. Documents added since the close of the inquest include the coroner's report, dated 6 January 2009, made under Rule 43 of the Coroners Rules 1984 (as amended), and the responses to that report of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and the Metropolitan Police Authority. These are all in the "Hearing Transcripts" section.

The inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Mr Dodi Al Fayed, in Paris on 31 August 1997, were opened in January 2004 and concluded on 7 April 2008 when the jury returned its verdict. The coroner during the public hearings (succeeding Lady Butler-Sloss from June 2007) was Lord Justice Scott Baker. The web site, now archived, provides background information, details of sittings, directions and procedural decisions, transcripts of proceedings, and documentary evidence seen by the jury.

Lady Justice Hallett was appointed in November 2009 to conduct the inquests into the deaths resulting from the London bombings on 7 July 2005 (often referred to as the 7/7 bombings). Hearings were concluded on 11 March 2011 and the verdicts and concluding remarks were delivered on 6 May 2011. This official site includes hearing transcripts, documentary evidence, procedural decisions, press notices, FAQs, and the Coroner's Rule 43 Report.

This resource is compiled by Paul Matthews of King's College London, editor of Jervis on Coroners (12th edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2002). As well as an online noter-up to Jervis there is a brief account of the law relating to coroners, an index of articles, and links. Please note that this site has not been updated since 2004.

The freely accessible areas of the Society's site (there is also a separate area for members only) provide information on the role of coroners and their history, plus a database of local coroners' offices, with names, addresses and other contact details, which is searchable both by county and by jurisdiction (district).

The Ministry of Justice is the government department responsible for the law and policy governing coroners and for the operation of the current coroner system in England and Wales. This section of the Justice portal site provides guidance for coroners and for those concerned with burials and cremation.

This site, created by Robert Goddard, a law lecturer at Aston Business School, Birmingham, functions both as a blog and as a portal for corporate (company) law. The blog covers important developments, news and other items, and the portal provides links to the main corporate law and governance primary materials, news sources and organisations.

Peter Cory, a retired Canadian Supreme Court judge, was appointed in 2002 to investigate allegations of collusion between British and Irish security forces and paramilitaries in six high profile cases, four of which related to the deaths in Northern Ireland of Pat Finucane, Robert Hamill, Rosemary Nelson and Billy Wright. All four reports, which were published by the Stationery Office on 1 April 2004, may be downloaded from this Collusion section of the University of Ulster's CAIN web site.

The Costs Lawyer Standards Board (CLSB) is the Approved Regulator of costs lawyers in England and Wales. Documents accessible on its site include the costs lawyers' Code of Conduct, Practising Rules, and Disciplinary Rules & Procedures. There is a searchable register of costs lawyers who hold a current practising certificate and are therefore regulated by the CLSB.

Costs Monkey is a free information site aimed primarily at students on the Association of Costs Lawyers training course. This includes a brief overview of costs law with extensive references to cases and to the Civil Procedure Rules.

The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) is the regulatory body for licensed conveyancers in England and Wales. The Consumers section of its web site includes a searchable directory of licensed conveyancers and details of complaints procedures. The CLC's Rules, Regulations and accompanying Guidance Notes are also available for download.

The Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) is responsible for the regulation of all qualifications (except NVQs, for which Ofqual is responsible) in Northern Ireland. Documents on the site include annual reports 2004-2005 onwards.

The home page of the Council of Europe site provides a useful starting point for all Council of Europe information, with links to the web pages of the Council's many institutions, secretariats, directorates and activities, including the Committee of Ministers, the European Court of Human Rights, the Parliamentary Assembly and the Treaty Office.

The Council of Europe's official treaty web site provides both full text and summaries of the complete European Treaty Series (ETS) 1949-2003, and its continuation the Council of Europe Treaty Series (CETS) 2004 onwards, together with details of signatures, ratifications, reservations, etc.

The Commissioner for Human Rights is an independent institution within the Council of Europe, responsible for promoting human rights within member states. The first Commissioner began work in 1999, and the site has all documentation to date (including opinions, recommendations, reports, seminar papers and speeches).

The Committee of Ministers is the Council of Europe's decision-making body, comprising the foreign affairs ministers of all the member states or their permanent diplomatic representatives in Strasbourg. Documents include (under "Adopted Texts"): full text of Committee of Ministers decisions 1991 onwards and selected Committee of Ministers recommendations 1979 onwards; resolutions 1949 onwards; declarations 1977 onwards; and replies to Assembly recommendations 1982 onwards.

The Data Protection pages of the Council of Europe web site include treaties and other international legal instruments, national laws of member states, reports, news and ECHR case law. Also included is information about the supervisory authorities in member states and selected other territories.

The Council of Europe's Sport homepage includes recommendations, resolutions and declarations of the Committee of Ministers relating to sport generally and also relating to doping in sport and sport-related violence. There are also links to the Anti-Doping Convention, European Convention on Spectator Violence, relevant treaties, reference texts and information about Council of Europe publications. Under the "Doping" heading there is a National policies database.

This is the "legacy site", now archived by the National Archives, of the body which supervised the constitution and working of tribunals and inquiries in England, Scotland and Wales until it was replaced in November 2007 by the Administrative Justice & Tribunals Council.

This is a section of Phil Bradley's Website which provides lists and links for over 4000 country and regional search engines and directory sites based in over 200 countries and regions. Phil Bradley is an independent consultant in electronic publishing and the internet.

Alphabetical listing of all courts in England and Wales, with information on each court's address and facilities, opening hours, contact details, how to get there, and type of work (eg civil, family). The database is searchable by name, region, area of law or court type. There is also an option which allows for searching by parish, or in London by street or postcode.

This section of the Justice portal site provides information on both the Civil and the Criminal Divisions of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. It includes contact details, guidance, a Civil Division case tracker, a "Questions and Answers" section providing general information on Civil Division procedures, a glossary of legal terms, a list of cases provisionally fixed for hearing in the Criminal Division, and links to current daily cause lists.

This collection of Court of Appeal decisions dating from 1809 and from 1872 to 2010 inclusive is available on the CommonLII web site and uses data provided by LawNet, a Sri Lanka Government project. Most of the cases are as reported in the Ceylon "New" Law Reports.

The official web site of the Bahamas Court of Appeal contains selected judgments 2003 onwards, court rules and other information on the procedure and administration of the court, and cause lists.

Also known as the Tribunal Arbitral du Sport (TAS), the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is an independent body, established in 1984 and based in Lausanne, Switzerland, providing a sports arbitration and mediation service. The CAS site includes case law 1986 owards, news and press releases, in addition to general information.

The Court of Justice of the European Union, based in Luxembourg, comprises the European Court of Justice (officially the Court of Justice), the General Court (formerly the Court of First Instance) and the Civil Service Tribunal. The database on this site covers cases 17 June 1997 onwards, with search options that include case number and names of parties. Earlier cases 1954 onwards are available on the EUR-Lex site but may be accessed from this site by selecting “Numerical access”, which can be found under "Case-law" in the site menu. Other site content includes press releases 1996 onwards.

The Court of Protection makes decisions in relation to the property and affairs, and healthcare and personal welfare, of adults who lack the capacity to make decisions for themselves. This section of the Justice portal site provides information on the court, including procedural rules and an external link to practice directions.

Courts of New Zealand covers the New Zealand High Court, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, and a number of lower courts, providing information on the history, structure and role of the courts, practice directions, case summaries and, in the case of the Supreme Court, judgments 2004 onwards in pdf: select From the Courts>Judicial Decisions. "Judicial Decisions of Public Interest" provides prompt access to selected new decisions of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court.

The Courts Service was established in 1999 under the Courts Service Act 1998. Its web site provides information on the Irish courts system, including court forms, rules, practice directions, judgments, court offices, law terms, a legal diary, press releases, annual reports and legal links. The judgments database contains written judgments of the Supreme Court 2001 onwards and of the Court of Criminal Appeal and  the High Court 2004 onwards.

Public daily cause lists for the Royal Courts of Justice and Crown/Combined High Courts, Employment Tribunals and a number of county courts in England and Wales, provided by Courtel Communications Limited. For key London County Court Lists, as well as the Archive, registration is required. There are several additional services for subscribers, providing the very latest updates and lists which are printable (this is not the case with free access) and searchable. The RCJ Express subscription service gives access to Royal Courts of Justice lists by e-mail, before they appear on the internet. Crown Express provides the same facility for Crown Court lists, County Express for County Court lists and Tribunal Express for Employment Tribunal lists. Additional free information on the site includes a directory of chambers, and there are links to external directories of Crown Courts, county courts and Employment Tribunals.

The Crime Survey for England and Wales is an annual survey of the public's experience and perception of crime, reported and otherwise, in England and Wales. It was previously called the British Crime Survey.

CrimeLine is overseen by Andrew Keogh, solicitor and author of the CLSA Duty Solicitors' Manual. It provides an updating service (comprising regular alerts sent out by email) and links to free resources on criminal law and procedure.

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is an independent body established in 1997 to investigate possible miscarriages of justice in the criminal courts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland and to refer appropriate cases to the appeal courts. The Case Library contains details of cases referred on to the Court of Appeal. These may be browsed alphabetically but not searched. There is a note in each case indicating whether or not the full judgment is available; if so this is via BAILII.

This report by Lord Justice Auld, published September 2001, is available here in full text, as archived by the National Archives. There is also a summary of the report.

The Criminal Defence Service (CDS) administers the present system of criminal legal aid in England and Wales. It forms part of the Legal Services Commission (LSC), which was established under the Access to Justice Act 1999 and replaced the Legal Aid Board. The Criminal Defence Service section of the LSC site contains legislation, codes of conduct and manuals, including materials relating to the Public Defender Service, and forms.

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) is the government body which administers the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in England, Scotland and Wales. Its pages on the Justice portal site contain the current, 2012 scheme and the schemes of 1996, 2001 and 2008, guides to those schemes, application forms, and a brief guide to applying for compensation. To access the schemes, select "Am I eligible?".

The First-tier Tribunal (Criminal Injuries Compensation) hears appeals against awards made by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. Formerly known as the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel (CICAP), it has since 3 November 2008 formed part of the First-tier Tribunal's Social Entitlement Chamber. This section of the Justice portal site includes the 1996, 2001 and 2008 schemes, with guidance documents; Chairman's directions, practice statements and protocol; annual reports 2001/2002 onwards; and case summaries with links to full text.

This site has been archived by the National Archives and is no longer active. The criminal justice system of England and Wales was the joint responsibility of the Home Office, the Attorney General's Office and the Ministry of Justice. The web site explains criminal justice policy and activities, with an emphasis on crime investigation and court procedure.

Subscription service. Criminal Law Week began in 1997 as a weekly printed publication and was launched online in 1998. It provides an up-to-date and comprehensive digest of developments in case law and legislation in the criminal law. Services include weekly updates and comment by James Richardson QC, editor of Archbold, a new (2006) Statutes Service, archive of over 10,000 digests from 1997 onwards, powerful search facilities, links to Casetrack full-text judgments, plus cumulative tables and subject index. The Statutes Service provides text of key criminal legislation (as amended) with full annotations (commencement dates, Hansard references and links, etc.). Criminal Law Week was acquired by Sweet & Maxwell in 2008.

The Criminal Procedure Rules (CrimPR) apply in all criminal trials in England and Wales. First introduced in 2005, they are now consolidated annually. The current rules, provided here in the Courts section of the Justice web portal, came into force on 1 October 2012; they gather together rules previously contained in over fifty Statutory Instruments. Practitioners may access from the same page the full text of the rules, the Consolidated Criminal Practice Direction, prescribed forms and amendments to the Rules.

A web portal maintained by solicitor Gavin Burrell and others, for UK criminal solicitors, which includes a case law updater, legislation updater, mailing list and download centre featuring consultation papers and responses.

Crofting is a form of landholding unique to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The Crofting Commission replaced the Crofters Commission as the regulator of crofting on 1 April 2012. The "Forms and Leaflets" division of its web site includes the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 as amended by the Crofting Reform etc. Act 2007, and as it is (or will be) amended by the Crofting Reform Act 2010; transcripts of decisions by the Land Court on Decrofting Appeals, 1980 onwards, code of conduct for board members and notes of assessors' meetings. Recently added is information on how to enter crofts in the Crofting Register, launched 30 November 2012.

This department of the Scottish Government is responsible for investigating deaths and undertaking prosecutions in the public interest. It is headed by Scotland's chief legal officer, the Lord Advocate. The web site explains the role and organisation of the department and provides contact details for each Procurator Fiscal's office. Publications include the Lord Advocate's Guidelines on a variety of subjects.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was set up in 1986 to prosecute criminal cases investigated by the police in England and Wales. Its web site includes the Code for Crown Prosecutors, Legal Guidance on a variety of offences, incorporating charging standards, and many other downloadable publications, including prosecution policies for various categories of offence.

Report of the inquiry by His Honour Gerald Butler QC, published 11 August 1999.

The Central Fraud Division was formed in April 2010 by the merger of the Fraud Prosecution Division and Revenue and Customs Division of the CPS, the latter of which was itself the product of a merger between the CPS and the formerly independent Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO). The web site explains how and in what areas the CFG operates, and the Publications section reproduces legal guidance and the annual reports of the former RCPO, 2005-2008.

Cylaw is a legal information project set up in February 2002 by the Cyprus lawyer Laris Vrahimis. It provides judgments of the Supreme Court of Cyprus 1997 onwards, Competition Commission decisions and law articles (all in Greek) and consolidated Civil Procedure Rules (in Greek and English versions).

Contains the full text of the judgments of the Supreme Court of Cyprus for the period 1976 to 2003. Many of the judgments are in Greek only, but the search engine allows for the use of English keywords.