African case law via SAFLII
- Botswana OU members see also Juta link in box to right
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Namibia- OU members see also Juta link in box to right
- Seychelles
- Swaziland
- Tanzania OU members see also Juta link in box to right
- Zambia OU members see also Juta link in box to right
- Zimbabwe OU members see also Juta link in box to right
For Kenya, Leosotho, Nigeria and Uganda see box on far right of this page.
African Law Library may be an alternative free web service worth trying. It is not limited to common law Africa
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African Law LibraryFree resource - though does require registration. The African Online Library on Law and Governance (the African Law Library) is an innovative online portal available free of charge to all those interested in African law and governance. The Library was initiated in 2012 by Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais, a successful international entrepreneur from Angola and Switzerland, and Founder of the African Innovation Foundation.
Vision
"The African Law Library aims to be the leading, innovative online portal for African law and governance, and to improve access to modern and customary law texts, and to other legal documents and secondary sources in the continent of Africa."
Subscription databases
For holders of OSS with research interests in these jurisdictions:
- Botswana - see link to Juta below
- Nambia - see link to Juta below
- Nigeria - see link to Funmi Quadri below
- Tanzania - see link to Juta below
- Zambia - see link to Juta below
- Zimbabwe - see link to Juta below
Electronic resources
Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria & Uganda online
Free online resources
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Kenya Law Cases DatabaseFree resource. Maintained by The National Council for Law Reporting (Kenya), member of the Free Access to Law Movement
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Lesotho Legal Information InstituteFree resource.
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Uganda Legal Information InstituteFree resource
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
The JCPC "is the highest court of appeal for many current and former Commonwealth countries, as well as the United Kingdom’s overseas territories, crown dependencies, and military sovereign base areas."
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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 2009 onwardsOfficial website. Transcripts of decided cases from 31 July 2009 onwards. Free access to earlier decisions available via BAILII see link below.
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BAILII: Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1809-Free resource. From 1809 onwards, but only complete from 1996 onwards. Prior to that it has "selected historical decisions." Case papers from the IALS collection from 1930 -1985 (effectively a full paper set from 1950 to 1985) and some selected papers from earlier judgments of special interest to researchers have been included in the project. The digitised papers (case for the appellant, case for the respondent, record of proceedings, factums and appendices) are available as searchable PDF files alongside the judgment texts
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Privy Council Papers OnlineThis website presents the first digital catalogue of the ‘Printed Papers’ of Appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), which was the final court of appeal for the British empire and later, for several countries of the Commonwealth. The ‘Printed Papers in appeal’ are detailed ‘case-records’ associated with appeal cases heard by the JCPC, which supplement the judgements. This catalogue contains key details for 9,368 cases, decided between 1792-1998, links to full-text judgements from BAILII where available, and the full text Printed Papers for 6 cases.