Useful Websites

Part 1: General Introduction

http://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/conlaw.html
A US site but an invaluable guide to researching Constitutional Law on the Internet containing material from all over the world.

https://www.ipu.org/
Inter-Parliamentary Union – a source of Information on national parliaments across the world. Includes a database of bibliographic references

http://www.bailii.org/
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute. This site provides access to the most comprehensive set of British and Irish primary legal materials that are available for free and in one place on the internet.

Part 3: The European Union

https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en
The official site of the European Union

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/
The official site of the European parliament.

Part 4: Central, Regional and Local Government

www.scottish.parliament.uk
https://www.gov.wales/
www.niassembly.gov.uk
The home pages for the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies respectively.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm
The official UK government website for citizens.

www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
The Cabinet Office is at the centre of government, making government work better. This website brings together information from units in the Department.

http://www.number10.gov.uk/
The offical web site of the Prime Minister and a source for all the latest news and releases from Downing Street.

https://www.gov.uk/topic/local-government
Useful information about local government services.

Part 5: Parliament

www.parliament.uk
The home page for the United Kingdom Parliament.

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/
A list of all Bills currently before Parliament. With explanatory notes and amendments.

www.electoralcommission.org.uk
A source of further information about the electoral process within the UK.

Part 6: The Individual and the State

http://www.lag.org.uk/
The Legal Action Group - a national, independent charity which campaigns for equal access to justice for all members of society.

https://ico.org.uk/
The Information Commissioner's Office - the UK's independent authority set up to promote access to official information and to protect personal information

Part 7: Judges and the Legal System

http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/
Find out what the Law Commission is and what it does. You can access text of all recent reports and consultation papers, plus see summaries of current official law reform projects

https://www.judiciary.uk/
Provides an insight into the working lives of the nearly 42,000 judicial office holders in England and Wales - judges, tribunal members and magistrates.

http://www.justice.gov.uk/
The home page for the new Ministry of Justice, created in 2007

Part 8: Introduction to Administrative Law

https://www.ombudsmanassociation.org
This site provides a list of ombudsman schemes.

http://www.olso.org/
Run by the Parliamentary Health Service, this site provides information about ombudsmen as well as advice about what to do in order to make a complaint.