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

Current awareness for holders of an Oxford SSO

Westlaw Edge UK
Offers the Lawtel service. Click last link on ribbon of options on blue banner. Includes facility to set up an alert to your Oxford email

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 This link opens in a new window
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.
LexisLibrary This link opens in a new window
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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.

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."

Holders of an Oxford SSO can access them via LexisLibrary, Westlaw Edge UK and/or ICLR Case Reports

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.

Finding transcripts of recent decisions

The following sources are available to all with access to the internet

Find case law (The National Archives)
Official Open Access. From April 2022, the National Archives (TNA, UK) is hosting a searchable database of court judgments from the England and Wales High Court, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court and tribunal decisions from the Upper Tribunals handed down and made public.

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The initial collection of judgments and decisions will total 50 000 dating back to 2003 for court judgements and 2015 for Tribunal decisions. This does not include settlements made outside of court.
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.
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)