Halsbury's Laws of England is a uniquely comprehensive encyclopaedia of law, and provides the only complete narrative statement of law in England and Wales. It has an alphabetised title scheme covering all areas of law, drawing on authorities including Acts of the United Kingdom, Measures of the Welsh Assembly, UK case law and European law. It is written by or in consultation with experts in the relevant field.
LexisNexis Group is a corporation providing computer-assisted legal research (CALR) as well as business research and risk management services. During the 1970s, LexisNexis pioneered the electronic accessibility of legal and journalistic documents. As of 2006, the company has the world's largest electronic database for legal and public-records related information.
LexisNexis Quicklaw is a Canadian electronic legal research database that provides court decisions from all levels, news reports, provincial and federal statutes, journals, and other legal commentary. It also offers a case citator and case digests. In 2002 Quicklaw was purchased by LexisNexis and is now a subsidiary of LexisNexis Canada.
The International Environmental Law Research Centre is an independent, non-profit research organisation established in 1995. It is an Association under Articles 60ff of the Swiss Civil Code. It has offices in the International Environment House in Geneva, Switzerland, Nairobi, Kenya and New Delhi, India.
Shepard's Citations is a citator used in United States legal research that provides a list of all the authorities citing a particular case, statute, or other legal authority. The verb Shepardizing refers to the process of consulting Shepard's to see if a case has been overturned, reaffirmed, questioned, or cited by later cases. Although the name is trademarked, it is also used informally by legal professionals to describe citators in general—for example, Westlaw's similar tool called Key Cite.
Construction Law is a monthly English-language journal providing news and articles on the construction industry. The journal is written for the non-legal professional involved in contractual and other legal matters in the industry. The journal is owned by LexisNexis which is part of Reed Elsevier.
Corporate Rescue and Insolvency is a bi-monthly English-language journal with commentary and analysis on domestic and international insolvency and restructuring law.
The Justice of the Peace (JP) now known as Criminal Law & Justice Weekly (CL&J) is the oldest legal weekly magazine in England and Wales. It has continuously reported all aspects of the law for the magisterial and criminal courts, since first published in 1837. For the purpose of citation, the title of the Justice of the Peace newspaper may be abbreviated to JPN.
The terms legal case management (LCM) or matter management refer to a subset of law practice management and cover a range of approaches and technologies used by law firms and courts to leverage knowledge and methodologies for managing the life cycle of a case or matter more effectively. Generally, the terms refer to the sophisticated information management and workflow practices that are tailored to meet the legal field's specific needs and requirements.
A law book is a book about law.
The Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents is a large collection of non-litigious legal forms and precedents published by LexisNexis UK.
Reports of Cases at Nisi Prius, in the Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, together with Cases tried in the Central Criminal Court, and on the Circuit, from Michaelmas Term, 1823, to Easter Term, 1841 is the title of a collection of nominate reports by F A Carrington and J Payne, of cases decided between approximately 1823 and 1841. They were published in nine royal octavo volumes from 1825 to 1841, by S Sweet.
Blackstone's Criminal Practice is a book about English criminal law. The First Edition was published by Blackstone Press in 1991. The Twenty-seventh Edition was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. In 2016, the Judicial Executive Board selected Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2017 as the principal practitioner text for all criminal courts in England and Wales. The Editors in Chief are Professor David Ormerod QC and David Perry QC. David Ormerod was previously the joint editor with Lord Justice Hooper.
Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law is a biographical dictionary concerned with legal biography, edited by A. W. B. Simpson and published in 1984 by Butterworths. Hines called it "valuable". Holborn described it as a "handy starting point". Tearle said it is "the best source to consult first". Clinch called it "invaluable".
James Edward Davis was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1842, was stipendiary magistrate at Stoke upon Trent from 1864 to 1870, was police magistrate at Sheffield from 1870 to 1874, and was a friend of Leigh Hunt.
The Criminal Law Consolidation Statutes of the 24 & 25 of Victoria, Chapters 94 to 100: Edited with Notes, Critical and Explanatory is a book about the criminal law consolidation Acts 1861 written by James Edward Davis and published by Butterworths in duodecimo in 1861. Davis' Criminal Law Consolidation Acts may for the purpose of citation be abbreviated to "Dav Cr Cons".
James John Lonsdale (1810–1886), second son of James Lonsdale the artist (1777–1839), was born on 5 April 1810. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn on 22 November 1836. He was secretary to the Criminal Law Commission in 1842. He was recorder of Folkestone from 5 August 1847 to the time of his death. He was judge of circuit No. 11 in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 14 February 1855 to 19 March 1867 and judge of circuit No. 48 in Kent from 19 March 1867 to March 1884. He died at The Cottage, Sandgate, Kent, 11 November 1886.
The law of Peru includes a constitution and legislation.
Clarence Gabriel Moran, barrister and writer, was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he obtained a third in Mods in 1897, and graduated BA in 1899. He obtained a first class pass in Roman law in the Trinity Bar Examinations, 1901. He became a barrister of the Inner Temple in January 1902. He was an examiner of the court, empowered to take examination of witnesses in all Divisions of the High Court. He was assistant deputy coroner for the South London District from 1927. He is said to have been "well known" and "noteworthy".
Routledge is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals, & online resources in the fields of humanities, behavioural science, education, law and social science. The company publishes approximately 1,800 journals and 5,000 new books each year and their backlist encompasses over 70,000 titles. Routledge is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences.
Google Books is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. Books are provided either by publishers and authors, through the Google Books Partner Program, or by Google's library partners, through the Library Project. Additionally, Google has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives.
The Law Quarterly Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering common law throughout the world. It is published by Sweet & Maxwell and was established in 1885. The editor-in-chief is Peter Mirfield. His predecessor was Francis Reynolds.
