Oxford LibGuides: Case law: online resources for common law countries: Latest UK/EW cases

Current awareness

Holders of an Oxford SSO will find that both Lexis Library and Westlaw UK, have Current Awareness sections which enable subject searching of recent decisions.

LexisLibrary
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Alternative names: LNB ; Lexis Nexis Butterworths Lexis Library

Lexis Nexis Butterworths (LNB) includes primary and secondary legal materials from the UK, EU, USA and many other jurisdictions.
It has particularly good collections of UK cases and in particular includes The Law Reports and The All England Law Reports, as well as many specialist series of reports. It is also a good source of UK legislation as it includes all UK Acts and Statutory Instruments as they currently stand.
LNB is also an excellent source of US primary legal materials and includes a huge amount of legal commentary from the UK and the US.
Lexis content formerly provided via the Lexis Nexis Professional interface is now available via LNB which replaces Professional.
Westlaw Edge UK
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Alternative name: West Law UK ; Westlaw UK

Westlaw is provided through a generous donation by Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
Westlaw is a large database of UK, US and international legal materials including cases, legislation and journal articles.
Coverage:
•UK statutes, statutory instruments and law reports
•England and Wales law reports
•US federal and state legislation and law reports
•Australian federal and state legislation and law reports
•Canadian federal and state legislation and law reports
•Hong Kong SAR law reports and laws
•European Union legislation and law reports
•UK and US law journals and texts
•Common Law Library and over 200 books published by Sweet & Maxwell (Thomson Reuters)
Because of licencing restrictions this database is not available to "Walk-in" users of the library.
ICLR Case Reports
Anyone can also sign up for free personal email or RSS alerting services from ICLR : summaries of most recent transcripts or latest published case reports.

Contains The Law Reports, Weekly Law Reports, Industrial Case Reports and Business Law Reports published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting.

Supreme Court (UK) News
Part of official website. As well as linking to the cases as decided, alerts one to the date of future judgments. As well as transcripts, provides links to videoed hearings.
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary (UK)
Official website - includes announcements of recent judgments (and their transcripts and often link to video of the hearing for the higher courts)

Recent transcripts in BAILII

BAILII - recent decisions (all cases)
Free resource. Recent decisions lists contain the 20 most recently rendered court judgments for each BAILII court/tribunal database, in reverse chronological order.

4 Weekly Law Reports

From 2016 a volume 4 was added to the WLR service. The new 4 WLR is only available online. It contains "additional cases which, while not meriting full print publication, add useful knowledge and provide helpful recent examples of the application of settled law, in a form that can be cited as a complete case report."

Expanding The Weekly Law Reports – Introducing Volume 4
News explained on ICLR Blog post still available as archive.
ICLR Blog Weekly Notes
This section of the Blog rounds up the previous week's most striking developments, judgments of course included.