Digests of selected cases relating to media and communications law 1978 onwards, on the web site of barristers’ chambers 5RB. Many have full-text judgments available, either downloadable or via links.

BAILII (the British and Irish Legal Information Institute) provides the most comprehensive set of British and Irish primary legal materials freely available online. There are over 50 case law databases, covering both courts and major tribunals, listed in “BAILII Databases” under the following headings: England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, United Kingdom and Commonwealth, and Europe. Most databases contain predominantly recent material (especially from around 1997 onwards), but older decisions are being added on an ongoing basis along with new cases. To view the current coverage of any specific database select the link in the “BAILII Databases” listing. Recently added decisions, both recent cases and older ones, can also be accessed via the “Recent Decisions”, “Recent Additions”, and “New Cases of Interest” links on the front page. Where decisions have been reported by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting a link to the ICLR web site is provided. There are various options for both basic and advanced searches, and a complete A-Z case name index.

Based on data provided by Justis, this section of the CommonLII web site includes all of the reports from the nominate reports series 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.

The Judgments section of the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary web site has selected judgments from the Court of Appeal, High Court and First-tier and Upper Tribunals, and also sentencing remarks from the Crown Court, judgments of district judges (magistrates’ courts), and County Court and Military Court judgments, late 2011 onwards. The database can be searched and filtered by court or jurisdiction. Judgments from 2009 to 2011 are available via an archived site.

This page on the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary web site links to decisions of all the chambers of the First-tier and Upper Tribunals.

The First-tier Tribunal (Tax) was established on 1 April 2009, replacing four former separate tribunals – the General Commissioners of Income Tax, the VAT and Duties Tribunal, the Special Commissioners of Income Tax and the Section 704/706 Tribunal. The decisions database here on the Tribunals Judiciary site includes decisions of the First-tier Tribunal (Tax) and also of the defunct tribunals, 2002 onwards (searchable April 2003 onwards), with a few selected earlier decisions.

Full text judgments of the House of Lords delivered from 14 November 1996 to 30 July 2009 are archived in this section of the UK Parliament web site.

ICLR.3 is a service from the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR). Freely available material includes summarised reports of cases 2009 onwards heard by the Supreme Court, House of Lords, Privy Council, Court of Appeal, and all divisions of the High Court, as well as the Court of Justice of the European Communities, that are likely to appear in the Weekly Law Reports, Business Law Reports, Industrial Cases Reports, and Public and Third Sector Law Reports. These summaries are available via links to “WLR (D)” references. The database is updated daily Monday to Friday, and can also be used to find references for any case published by the ICLR 1865 onwards, including “index cards” with information about subject matter, appellate history, cases and legislation considered, and consideration of the case in subsequent decisions. There are links to transcripts on the BAILII web site where available. Access to the full text of all the ICLR’s series of law reports 1865 onwards, and to transcripts of all cases decided in the Court of Appeal and Administrative Court 1998 onwards, is available as a subscription service.

This section of the web site of the judiciary in Northern Ireland includes a searchable database of judgments, judgment summaries, practice directions, and Lord Chief Justice’s directions 1984 onwards.

Decisions 1999 onwards of the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) and its predecessor the Lands Tribunal, in a searchable database.

Subscription service. Lawtel contains summaries of reported and unreported cases 1980 onwards, and selected earlier cases, with links to full text transcripts online wherever available. Full text of other cases can be obtained by applying to Lawtel. Cases are put online within 24 hours of judgment being given. A separate database – Lawtel Personal Injury – includes an update service plus case law and articles, and is also updated daily. The Quantum Reports database goes back to 1980. Major personal injury cases are included as are a wide range of unreported cases from the County Court.

Subscription service. Coverage includes full text of All England Law Reports 1936 onwards, All England Commercial Cases 1999 onwards, All England Law Reports European Cases 1995-2015, All England Reporter (All ER (D)) October 1997 onwards, All England Law Reports Reprint (covering reports from 1558-1935), a wide variety of other series of law reports including the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting’s Law Reports, and an archive of full text official transcripts 1980 onwards. Site content is updated daily.

The Decided Cases section of the UK Supreme Court’s web site contains the court’s judgments, October 2009 onwards, published after they are handed down.

This site, produced by retired solicitor David Swarbrick, provides an index to more than 200,000 cases covering all areas of law, mainly in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Europe. Links are provided to full text wherever available (mostly on BAILII). New content is added daily, not only newly decided cases but also selected older cases which were previously available on David Swarbrick’s Lawindexpro subscription service (which closed in November 2015).

Subscription service. The JustisOne service provides access to an extensive database of full text UK case law 1163 onwards, including judgments from the Court of Appeal, High Court, House of Lords/Supreme Court and Privy Council, and also citator information with links to reports and judgments on other sites. Other Justis products available on JustisOne include Times Law Reports, International Law Reports, reports published by the Irish and Scottish law reporting Councils, and reports from various Commonwealth jurisdictions. Other vLex Justis services provide access to legal material from a wide variety of other jurisdictions worldwide.

Subscription service. The case content of Westlaw UK includes full text of The Law Reports and other Incorporated Council of Law Reporting series; English Reports; Session Cases; and many of Sweet & Maxwell’s specialised series including Criminal Appeal Reports. There are also transcripts of unreported cases with extensive coverage 1980 onwards and some earlier transcripts. The service is updated daily.