Accessing Free Legal Databases

Official online gateway to EU law, run by the Publications Office of the European Union. Includes case-law. 

Available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html

Gateway to national law databases for individual EU member states. Includes links to Dec.Nat and JURE databases.

Available at: https://e-justice.europa.eu/topics/legislation-and-case-law/national-case-law_en

Database of the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights.

Available at: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#

Collection of databases and gateways from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). Of note are the Eagle-i Internet Portal of Law and FLARE Index to Treaties.

Available at: https://resources.ials.sas.ac.uk/

Official EU database for case-law of the Court of Justice and the General Court.

Available at: https://curia.europa.eu/juris/recherche.jsf?language=en

Gateway to national law databases for individual EU member states. Each database contains a link to Case-law; clicking on the link runs a search in EUR-Lex for case-law related to the member state.

Available at: https://n-lex.europa.eu/n-lex/index

Website of the SCLR (Scottish Council of Law Reporting), the publisher of the Session Cases.

Available at: https://www.scottishlawreports.org.uk/resources/links-online-resources/

Includes the latest judgments and court rolls, inquiries and appeals of the SCTS.

Available at: https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk

Includes the latest judgments of the Supreme Court. 

Available at: https://supremecourt.uk

Online catalogue of the UN documents and publications. 

Available at: https://digitallibrary.un.org/?ln=en