Guides: Law: Searching for cases

Use the legal databases to search for cases. Both Westlaw UK and LexisLibrary provide access to a large number of transcripts and reports.

Westlaw UK This link opens in a new window
Access case reports, legislation, journal articles and a selection of practitioner texts.
You may need to register before accessing this database
- Database help guide

The following databases provide access to some specialist reports, such as Family Law Reports, English Reports

Family Law Online This link opens in a new window
Access to Family Law Online is now provided by Lexis

Access the Family Law Journal and Family Law Reports for the latest news of legislative change, case reports, articles and news items written and compiled by experts.
- Database help guide (PDF download)
HeinOnline English Reports This link opens in a new window
Access the English Reports, Full Reprint and the Law Journal Library, a collection of more than 1,100 law and law- related periodicals.
- Exporting to RefWorks
Oxford Reports on International Law This link opens in a new window
Access decisions on public international law from international courts and tribunals, domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals. Includes International Criminal law, International Human Rights, International Investment, International Law in Domestic Courts, Oxford Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction and Max Planck Encyclopedias of Public International Law.

Lexis+ This link opens in a new window
Lexis+ provides access to a range of case law, legislation, commentary, and current awareness. This includes the full text of volumes 1-50 of Halsbury's Laws of England.

The Law Reports, arranged in alphabetical order of title, follow on from the textbooks and are for reference only.

Please return them to their correct place on the shelf when you have finished with them so that other students are able to access them.