A route to even more US federal and state law. Thanks to an agreement between HeinOnline and Fastcase, incidentally a US law database for which the Law Bod has an existing, separate subscription. “The federal case coverage includes the judicial opinions of the Supreme Court (1754-present), Federal Circuits (1924-present), Board of Tax Appeals (vols. 1-47),… Read More »
So starts a distinctively New Zealand adaptation of a true love’s Christmas gifts. The link will take you through to the words – the tune will be easy to work out. (This version was first published by Kingi M. Ihaka in a book of the same name in 1981.) (Image thanks to Sid Mosell who… Read More »
Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even. Brightly shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel, When a poor man came in sight, gathering winter fuel. (Words by: John M. Neale (1818-1866); first appeared in Carols for Christmas-Tide, 1853, by Neale and Thomas… Read More »
The Law Bod has just started a subscription to the New Journal of European Criminal law (NJECL in citations). This new (to the Law Bod) journal, published by Intersentia, has a particular focus on “criminal law as it is drawn up by the European Union and the Council of Europe,” as well as the law’s… Read More »
The Free Access to Law initiative takes many forms. We may already be used to accessing decisions of the Federal Court of Malaysia and Court of Appeal of Malaysia via CommonLII. (This LII also offers a few issues of Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law (JMCL) for some commentary.) If you are interested in something… Read More »
By Beth Paton The Law Library has recently subscribed to a database called Supreme Court Cases (SCC) Online, produced by New Delhi-based publishers the Eastern Book Company. It advertises itself as “an extensive database of Indian law, statute law and other material, with a high performance search engine and our familiar user-friendly interface.” First impressions… Read More »
The Bodleian History Librarian has arranged a trial of a new database and she thinks it may be of interest and use to some of the Law Bod’s regulars too! Note this is just a trial at the moment – the trial period will end at the end of March 2013. As we have such… Read More »
Up till now, OU members have been restricted to the Open Access section of a major German online journal database called DZ or DigiZeitschriften The good news is that the Bodleian Libraries now have a subscription, making a lot more content available for all holders of an Oxford Single Sign On! The database has journals… Read More »
The Supreme Court of Canada and LexUM announced just before Christmas that the Court’s Decisions website now contains all decisions since 1907, and judgments in leave applications since 2006. The collection is updated within minutes of the public release of the judgments by the Court. “All published judgments since 1876 from cases which were appealed… Read More »
The Law Bod fully acknowledges that bagpipes are part of the culture of many nations, but as we are in England the mention of pipes brings our neighbours Scotland and Ireland first to mind. (The previous links are probably not recommended for exiles whose heartstrings are easily touched over Christmas.) We have found it impossible… Read More »
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