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Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations

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.

English Reports Table

All of the nominate report series reprinted in the 178-volume English Reports are listed here in alphabetical order. Alongside each nominate title is the volume number of English Reports in which it may be found, its usual abbreviation, and a note of its coverage in terms both of dates and of court. The Table is on Lancaster University Library's web site.

GlobaLex

GlobaLex provides online guides to international, foreign and comparative law research. The site's four sections are International Law Research (guides to over 25 topics), Comparative Law Research, Foreign Law Research (guides to over 100 countries), and Tools for Building Foreign, Comparative and International Law Collections. The guides include commentary, bibliographies and links to online resources, and are written by subject librarians and faculty staff from universities and other institutions from around the globe. The site is produced by the Hauser Global Law School Program (HGLSP) at the New York University School of Law.

Government Actuary's Department: Ogden Tables

The Actuarial Tables for Use in Personal Injury and Fatal Accident Cases, commonly known as the Ogden Tables, may be downloaded from this page of the Government Actuary's Department site. Besides the current 7th edition (2011), the 6th (2007), 5th (2004) and 4th (2000) are also available under the "Knowledge Centre" heading.

Highway Code

Online version, specifically adapted for online use from the current print edition of The Highway Code.

HM Prison Service: Prison Finder

Directory containing information on individual prisons, including contact details. Prisons can be located by name, via an A-Z listing, category, or location.

Legal Hub

Sweet & Maxwell's Legal Hub site provides free online access to the current editions of its publications The Bar Directory, Expert Witness Directory and In-house Lawyer Directory. The site also includes a collection of articles: for full access to these registration is required.

LLRX.com: Legal Research

LLRX.com describes itself as an independent web journal which provides articles, research guides and other resources relating to legal practice, research and law firm management. United States legal research content is set out under three categories in the side menu: Federal Legislative Research, Legislative Research Guide and United States Law (the last being arranged alphabetically by topic). For international, comparative and foreign law content select Foreign & Comparative Law. Within that category, particularly within the "International Legal Research" subcategory, there are articles and guides on international law topics and on researching the law in various countries and regions of the world.

National Archives

The National Archives is the official archive of the UK government, responsible for looking after the records of central government and the courts of law and for making them as widely accessible as possible. It is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice. The site has an extensive range of research guides and other information, including an online catalogue containing 11 million descriptions of documents. For archived digital government information, including archived "snapshots" of current and defunct government department web sites, select the home page quick link to "UK Government Web Archive".

New Square Chambers: Legal Terms Date Calculator

This calculator can be used to determine the dates of the four sittings or "legal terms" of the Court of Appeal and the High Court of England and Wales in every legal year from 1972-73 to 2200-2201. There is also an informative "Historical Note on the Legal Terms", reproduced from A handbook of dates for students of English history, edited by C.R. Cheney and Michael Jones (2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2000).

OSCOLA

The Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) is a system of citation and presentational style for use in legal writing, produced by the Oxford Law Faculty. The fourth edition (2012) and also an OSCOLA-Lite for EndNote, may be downloaded from this site.

Personal Injury Calculator

Online calculator created by Richard Paige, barrister of Sovereign Chambers in Leeds. It can be used to update personal injury awards in line with inflation and, if appropriate, the decision of the Court of Appeal in Heil v. Rankin.

piCalculator

This site, by Rebmark Legal Solutions Limited, provides tables and calculators designed to assist personal injury lawyers to prepare personal injury and clinical negligence claim documents. Tables are reproduced from the 7th, 6th and 5th editions of the Ogden Tables. The calculators are accessible only by subscribers.

Regnal Years of English Sovereigns

Until 1962 the regnal year in which a statute was passed formed an essential part of its citation. This detailed table gives precise dates of all English regnal years 1066-1962. The text is from Sweet & Maxwell's Guide to law reports and statutes, 4th edition, 1962, reproduced as a pdf document here on the web site of Harvard Law School Library.

World Legal Systems

Six legal systems - civil law, common law, customary law, Muslim law, Talmudic law and mixed systems - are briefly described, and the world's "political entities" (mostly countries) are listed and classified according to the system under which they operate. The site is part of the Civil Law section of the web site of the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa.


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