Question:Where can I research case law online for free?

Where can I find UK Case law online and for free??

I think you are going to have a problem getting it free on-line. Blackwells, Westlaw and such organisations can charge a fee and so do! http://www.venables.co.uk/caselaw.htm might have what you want. The following may be free but I suspect ...

Where can I find UK Case law online and for free?

Q: I'm doing some research into criminal and police law and need a site that gives UK and Human Rights stated cases. If it hads an explanation of the case as well that would be a bonus! Did I mention I want a free online resourch for it? Cheers

A: I think you are going to have a problem getting it free on-line. Blackwells, Westlaw and such organisations can charge a fee and so do! http://www.venables.co.uk/caselaw.htm might have what you want. The following may be free but I suspect not - don't want to get your hopes up!Casetrack - full text judgements from a range of Courts, including all divisions of the High Court, Court of Appeal and Employment Appeal Tribunal. Updated daily.Daily Cases - summaries of cases. Includes judgements of House of Lords, Court of Appeal, all High Court divisions, Employment Appeal Tribunal and European Court of Justice. Coverage from June 1999, updated daily.The English reports - full text of over 100,000 case reports. Coverage from 1220 to 1865. For case law since 1865, consult The Law Reports. Eurolaw - full text database of European case law and legislation. Case law includes the European Court of Justice and Court of First Instance. Legislation includes treaties and directives.The Law Reports - case law: full text version of the Law reports from 1865 to the present.Lawtel - provides digests of UK cases, including transcripts; legislation; journal articles; command papers and bills. Includes a human rights section with full text case law from the European Court of Human Rights, summaries of journal articles and legislation. LexisNexis Butterworths - full text database of English, European and some international law. Includes full text UK and American law journals. LexisNexis provides access to the Index to Legal Periodicals which indexes articles from a range of journals. LexisNexis also includes full text access to UK newspapers, legal commentary and legal forms. The Weekly Law Reports full text online version of The Weekly Law Reports from 1953, updated monthly. Westlaw - English case reports from 1886 (many full text) and full text legislation. Westlaw includes EU cases and legislation from 1952 and some US and international material. It also includes the Legal Journals Index (one of the main ways of tracing legal journal articles).Other useful databasesAcademic Search Complete - a multi-disciplinary database which includes legal journals, some articles are full text.ASSIA - Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, includes social and family law.BOPCAS - British Official Publications current awareness service, provides bibliographic details of government publications with abstracts and some full text links.Factiva - International news database. Includes leading national newspapers, local newspapers, trade and professional journals and the BBC Monitoring Service (transcripts of world radio broadcasts).Sociological Abstracts - covers a broad range of subjects including some aspects of law.Web of Science - contains the Social Sciences Citation Index which provides bibliographic information and abstracts from a range of key law journals.ZETOC - British Library's electronic table of contents. Covers about 20,000 current journals and conference proceedings in publishing, science, technology, business, law, finance and the humanities. Another route may be to try a uni library or your local library who may be able to order them from a legal library but as many are reference only it is unlikely I think. Sorry. It is frustrating.