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EUR-Lex - Information - About this site
In conformity with its mission, which is to publish the whole body of European Union law, and in particular the legislation and the case law, as well as the decisional procedures between the Commission and the other institutions, the EUR-Lex website is the single entry point to the complete collections of EU legal texts in all the official languages,
provides direct access to the official document repositories managed by the institutions or by the Publications Office, as well as other institutional documentary sources, including CELEX with its powerful search tools (chargeable service), in various formats (HTML, PDF, TIF and WORD), with harmonized search functions permitting searches in specific types of documents or across all documents using free text,
and contains explanatory texts on EU legislative procedures, as well as a glossary and descriptions of the decision-making process in the 'About EU law' section.
European Court of Human Rights
Your direct line to the European Union
For your questions on the European Union
EUROPA - Rapid - Midday Express
MIDDAY EXPRESS
News from the Press and Communication Directorate General's midday briefing
Nouvelles du rendez-vous de midi de la Direction G鮩ral Presse et Communication
EU Council
The Council is the main decision-making body of the European Union.
The ministers of the member states meet within the Council of the European Union. Depending on the issue on the agenda, each country will be represented by the minister responsible for that subject (foreign affairs, finance, social affairs, transport, agriculture, etc.).
The presidency of the Council is held for six months by each member state on a rotational basis.
The Council is responsible for decision-making and co-ordination.
The Council of the European Union passes laws, usually legislating jointly with the European Parliament.
The Council co-ordinates the broad economic policies of the member states.
The Council defines and implements the EU’s common foreign and security policy, based on guidelines set by the European Council.
The Council concludes, on behalf of the Community and the Union, international agreements between the EU and one or more states or international organisations.
The Council co-ordinates the actions of member states and adopts measures in the area of police and judicial co-operation in criminal matters.
The Council and the European Parliament constitute the budgetary authority that adopts the Community’s budget.
European Court of Auditors
International Political Cooperation - TLD
Welcome to the Home Page of the Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue.
Intended primarily for the use of Members of the European Parliament and the United States Congress, the page provides links to documentation about the Dialogue itself and about legislation in one institution likely to be of interest to Members of the other institution.
The two components of the Dialogue hope that the public will bring to their attention aspects of legislation being considered that would impinge on trade or other relations between the United States and the European Union.
1. What is the TLD ?
2. The history of EU - US parliamentary contacts
Site map of EUROPARL, the web site of the European Parliament
The European Parliament
The European Central Bank
Legislative Observatory (information)
This administrative database has been developed in the context of the 'legislative backbone' set up at the Secretariat of the European Parliament in April 1993. It is produced and managed mainly by DG I (Presidency), with input from DG II (committees and delegations) and DG III (information). It is updated daily.
Conception of the database
Subjects of current interest
Legislative dossiers and research
Activities of the institutions
The database covers the activities of the institutions involved in the legislative procedure and the decision-making process. This tool should make it possible to follow and monitor the Community decision-making process and to evaluate and monitor the workload of Parliament and its committees, the Commission's annual working programme and the proposals of the different Council Presidencies.
Site map
Legal Media Group - informing global counsel for over 15 years
With over 15 years’ experience writing on legal issues affecting international businesses, Legal Media Group is established as the leading publisher in its field.
Part of Euromoney Institutional Investor, the group’s magazines include International Financial Law Review, International Tax Review and Managing Intellectual Property. Legal Media Group also publishes the annual IFLR 1000 legal directory and Euromoney Expert Guides.
The group’s website is committed to the needs of in-house counsel and private practitioners working on international deals and cases. The site combines the resources of the group’s magazines, expert guides, directories and supplements with added news, analysis, data and discussion that is only available online.
Eurovoc is a multilingual thesaurus covering the fields in which the European Communities are active; it provides a means of indexing the documents in the documentation systems of the European institutions and of their users. This documentation product is currently used by the European Parliament, the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, national and regional parliaments in Europe, national government departments and certain European organisations. Eurovoc exists in the 11 official languages of the European Union (Spanish, Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish). In addition to these versions, it has been translated by the parliaments of a number of countries (Albania, Croatia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Slovenia).
Value-added services in the pay section of the Eur-Lex portal
Please consult the document below for a comparison between the free section of the new Eur-lex portal and the paying section (Celex).
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Please use the login enlu0000 and the password europe.
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Numerical access to the case-law
Access to the case-law by case number makes it possible to find information relating to every case brought before the Court of Justice or the Court of First Instance between 1953 and the present day.
Cases are listed by number in the order in which they were lodged at the relevant Registry. Cases may also be located by party names using the "find (Ctrl+F)" function on the toolbar.
The texts of judgments and orders which have been published in the European Court Reports may be consulted by following a link to "Celex", the interinstitutional database, by clicking on the case number.
Cases lodged before the Court of Justice Cases lodged before the Court of First Instance
from 1953 to 1988 since 1989
since 1989
For the benefit of the public, the electronic version of the texts of the Court of Justice is available free of charge on Internet for information purposes. This version is subject to amendment. The definitive version of these texts will be published in the "Reports of Cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance" which alone are authentic and, in the event of their differing from the electronic version, are alone to be regarded as authoritative. Reproduction of the texts supplied on this site is authorized provided that their source and non-authentic character are acknowledged and it is mentioned that they have been provided free of charge.
Court of Justice - Texts governing procedure- Extracts of Treaties
- Statute of the Court of Justice (15-6-2004)
- Special or additional jurisdiction
- Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice (1-5-2004)
- Supplementary Rules (11-3-1997)
- Instructions to the Registrar of the Court of Justice (3-10-1986)
- Practice directions relating to direct actions and appeals (16-4-2003)
- Information note on references by national courts for preliminary rulings
- Notes for the guidance of Counsel before the Court of Justice
- Lodging of procedural documents
Europa/European Commission - Competition
POLICY AREAS
ANTITRUST:
Overview
Official Journal
Legislation
Cases
Other documents
MERGERS:
Overview
Official Journal
Legislation
Cases
Outside normal scope
Other documents
LIBERALISATION:
Overview
Official Journal
Legislation
Decisions
Other documents
STATE AID:
Overview
Official Journal
Legislation
Register
Scoreboard
Regional Aid
Other documents
INTERNATIONAL:
Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII)
Hong Kong Legal Information Institute
Free access to legal information in Hong Kong and China
British and Irish Legal Information Institute
British and Irish Legal Information Institute
Access to Freely Available British and Irish Public Legal Information
House of Lords Publications
Here you can browse the full text of selected House of Lords publications, [including the Hansard, private bills, public bills, list of members, minutes and order papers, select committe reports, the Standing Orders and the Companion to the Standing Orders.
Inland Revenue: Tax Bulletin Inland Revenue : Tax Bulletins
Tax Bulletin
The content of Tax Bulletin gives the views of our technical specialists on particular issues. The information published is reported because it may be of interest to tax practitioners. Publication will be six times a year, and include a cumulative index issued on an annual basis.
These bulletins can be viewed as HTML web pages and as PDF files.To view a PDF file you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. To save a file to your hard drive, right click on the link and choose the save option.
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http://www.eubusiness.com/guides/competition
EUguides - Competition Policy in the European Union
Effective competition is crucial to an open market economy. It cuts prices, raises quality and expands customer choice. Competition allows technological innovation to flourish. For this to happen, fair play on the part of businesses and governments is essential. The European Commission has wide powers to make sure they stick to European Union rules on fair trade in goods and services.
The main areas of competition policy are:
antitrust and cartels
merger control
liberalisation
state aids
http://www.eubusiness.com/Western_Europe
EU Member Countries
Austria | Belgium | Cyprus
Denmark | Czech Republic
Estonia | Finland | France
Germany | Greece | Hungary
Ireland | Italy | Latvia
Lithuania | Luxembourg
Malta | Netherlands | Poland
Portugal | Slovakia | Slovenia
Spain | Sweden | UK
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Candidate countries
Bulgaria | Romania | Turkey
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Others
Iceland | Norway | Russia
Switzerland | Ukraine
The definitive record of the English language
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/events/law.html
The Internet for Law: Programme
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, Wednesday 12th November 2003
These are the PowerPoint presentations
11.00-11.15
Introduction and overview: JISC Resource Guides
Helen Wharam, Resource Guide for Social Sciences, University of Bristol
Slides [PPT format]
JISC funds a number of national Internet information services to support students, lecturers and researchers in universities. This session will give an overview of some key resources.
11.15-11.30
The Internet for Law: SOSIG Law Gateway
Steve Whittle, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Slides [PPT format]
SOSIG is a national gateway to high quality legal information on the Internet, suitable for education and research. It is part of the UK's Resource Discovery Network. Find out how to use the database to find: primary and secondary legal materials online, the Web sites and online publications of law societies and bar councils, and details of legal researchers, law conferences and courses worldwide.
11.30-11.45
Resources for teaching legal information research skills I: Internet for Lawyers
Sue Pettit, The Law Library, University of Bristol
Slides [PPT format]
Internet for Lawyers is a free online tutorial to help students to practice and develop Internet skills, ideal for including in legal research or induction courses.
11.45-12.00
Resources for teaching legal information research skills II: Lawpaths
Sarah Carter, Templeman Library, University of Kent
Slides [PPT format]
Lawpaths is a resource bank of materials to support the learning and teaching of legal information research skills. These consist of guides, tutorials, workbooks and other materials developed by librarians and legal academics and publishers in a form which can be re-used and customised by other institutions.
1.30-1.45
National legal information: BAILII
Joe Ury, British and Irish Legal Information Institute
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute is a collaborative service aiming to provide public access to primary legal materials for the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. BAILII databases give free access to a collection of full text British and Irish legal materials, particularly case law and some legislation.
http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/info/subjectg/law/lawrep_citations.htm
Citations for The Law Reports
The following are the main abbreviations for all the series in The Law Reports published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting
The full title of the report will normally have "Law Reports" in front of the series title. Where "L.R." is included in the abbreviation, the volume number will usually be cited between "L.R." and the remainder of the abbreviation.
http://www.lexonthenet.co.uk/news.php?contentid=28713&include=lft_menu_home
Trainee haunts
Of course, if we listed all the bars that host City trainee solicitors on a Friday night, we’d have a complete pub-guide. (Hey, not a bad idea – Ed.) Here are just a few trainee-choice establishments:
Ashurst: The White Hart, The Drunken Monkey, Home, The Heeltap and Bumper, The Light Bar
Baker & McKenzie: The Evangelist, The Last, El Vinos
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert: Slug & Lettuce (EC3)
Clifford Chance: All Bar One, The Fine Line,1802, Via Fossa (all Canary Wharf)
Herbert Smith: Davy’s, Dirty Dicks, Exchanges, Jaime’s, Lime Bar, The Light Bar, Sosho
Jones Day: The Harrow
Kendall Freeman: The Last & White Swan, The Cartoonist, The Hogshead (EC4)
Lovells: The Living Room, Smiths of Smithfields, The Vanquish, Cittie of Yorke, The Mitre
Macfarlanes: The Castle
Nabarro Nathanson: The Enterprise, The Square Pig
Norton Rose: The Stone Horse, All Bar One (Houndstitch), The Light Bar
Simmons & Simmons: Corney & Barrow (CityPoint), Digress, Rack & Tenter, Boudoir
Taylor Wessing: The Witness Box, The Evangelist, The Cheshire Cheese
http://www.legal500.com/index.php
Recommended law firms and lawyers worldwide
The definitive guide to the legal market in over 70 countries. In-depth independent editorial, recommendations of law firms and lawyers, and law firm directories.
http://www.legalbusiness.co.uk/
Legal Business is constantly innovating: its surveys and critiques are regularly the subject of reports and commentary in the national press, its sector coverage of all the key practice areas and market sectors is second to none. What’s more, and in a crowded market, the annual Legal Business awards ceremony remain the undisputed ‘Oscars of the legal profession’.
http://www.courtsandagency.com/
The Courts & Agency Directory is a database of firms that will do agency work in England, Wales or Scotland. Use this free service to find a local agent- for any type of court. Please enter a location and select the type of court:
http://www.legal500.com/patents/
With the ever increasing importance of the protection of intellectual property rights, Legal500.com has developed this search facility to help in the search for patent and trademark attorneys worldwide. For those firms that wish to expand the information currently supplied, please e-mail patentsandtrademarks@legalease.co.uk for details.
http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/choosingandusing/findasolicitor.law
Find a solicitor
Welcome to Solicitors-Online, the place to find law firms in your area that can help with your legal issue. More information. The firms on this list have asked to be included. Alternative searches: Solicitor search and Organisation search
http://lawyers.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml
Use this Locator to find a lawyer by name. Or click the tabs to search by location/area of practice, by firm, or for lawyers in corporations, agencies of the US government, or law school faculty.
Generations of lawyers have relied on Martindale-Hubbell as the authoritative resource for information on the worldwide legal profession. With a history spanning more than 133 years, the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Network is currently powered by a database of over one million lawyers and law firms in 160 countries.
This unrivaled network
Connects lawyers and firms with their clients and potential clients.
Facilitates communication between members of the legal profession.
Provides access to a wide range of biographical information and professional credentials regarding lawyers in private, corporate and government.
http://www.butterworths.co.uk/userguides/index.htm
To download and print any of the manuals listed below you must have a pdf reader. To download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader visit their website at http://www.adobe.com
The Direct Services User Manual covers the generic features in all of our subscription services. Other manuals listed below outline the unique features of individual services.
Butterworths online services offer authoritative legal and taxation information services to fit every need.
http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/info/subjectg/law/troubleshoot/citations.htm
How to interpret case citations
Case citations include the names of the parties and a reference to the law report in which it is published. A case may be published in several different reports, so you may get several different citations.
Since 2001 cases are also assigned neutral citations which give a unique identifier for each judgment but don't refer to any law report.
Citations for the English Reports
The following are the abbreviations for all the series of nominate reports published before 1865. They are all reprinted in the English Reports. To find an individual case in the English Reports look up the name in the Case Index (the last two volumes of the series).
http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/info/subjectg/law/engrep_citations.htm
How to find case law
http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/info/subjectg/law/troubleshoot/caselaw.htm
Law skills
[for IRC reference staff]
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The following law tutorials will take you through the basic skills required to start on legal research
Start with the Tour round the Law Library web site.
http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/info/subjectg/law/lawskills.htm
Source:
Sarah Carter
Law Librarian
This page last changed on: May 7, 2004
URL of this site: http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/info/subjectg/law/lawelec.htm
© Copyright 2002 University of Kent
http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/info/subjectg/law/troubleshoot/checklist.htm
This is a checklist of all the law reports series available on electronic subscription services.
See also How to Find Case Law and How to Interpret Legal Citations
http://lexisnexis.butterworths.co.uk/law/index.htm?bAuth=no
The Law Community at www.lexisnexis.co.uk/law provides access to a range of information and services:
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Forms & Precedents: information on the Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents service and access to Everyform - the free online legal form service with over 900 forms from 19 official agencies
Searchable online catalogue of all LexisNexis UK products and services
http://www.casetrack.com/index.html
What is special about Casetrack?
The breadth of coverage is unrivalled. Judgments listed at the following courts are available through Casetrack:
Court of Appeal (Criminal & Civil Divisions) from April 1996 to present.
Administrative Court from April 1996 to present.
All divisions of the High Court from July 1998 to present.
Employment Appeal Tribunal from July 1998 to present.
VAT Tribunal from January 2002 to present.
Searchable links to House of Lords and Privy Council judgments from November 1996 to present.
Access to judgments from the Irish and Northern Irish Courts.
Selected judgments from the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.
General Information about licensed access together with Guidance on how to instruct a barrister is available from the above list, under Licensed Access Guidance.
The Licensed Access Rules governing instructions under licensed access are available from the above list, under Licensed Access Guidance.
The Licensed Access Recognition Regulations governing instructions under licensed access are available from the above list.
The standard Terms of Work for licensed access clients is available from the above list.
If you would like to apply for a licence click here for an application form.
A list of organisations that already have licensed access (and were formerly known as BarDIRECT or Direct Professional Access licensees) is available from the above list, under List of Licensed Access Licensees.
http://www.barcouncil.org.uk/document.asp?documentid=173
CODE OF CONDUCT
This is the 7th edition of the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. It replaces all other versions. The Code implements the Access to Justice Act 1999 and includes the extension of full rights of audience to employed barristers and changes to the Pupillage Regulations. This edition came into effect on 31 July 2000.
