Useful Law Resources Online

You have access to a variety of online law resources, covering legislation, case law and journal articles, which will provide examples of the law from a sociological perspective. The main resources, which are all available via the E-Library, are:

• Westlaw – provides next day case reporting, over 300,000 full-text case reports and transcripts dating back to the 1200s; consolidated legislation updated daily; a selection of online books; over 100 journals in full text; and national and international news and business updates.


• Lexis Library – provides coverage of over 500,000 cases with an archive back to the 1500s, including transcripts from specialist law reports, and with recent judgments and digests added daily; the full text of Halsbury’s Laws of England providing an authoritative guide to the law; consolidated legislation updated daily; a wide range of full text journals; and over 160 commentary titles.


• Lawtel – provides the full text of original statutes as enacted with a facility to trace commencements, amendments and repeals through Statutory Status Tables; extensive daily case law, both reported and unreported back to 1996; and a journals abstracting and indexing service (without full text).

For further information on law resources and how to access them, use the following guide: http://www.library.salford.ac.uk/help/userguides/subject/islaw.pdf