Welcome to BAILII, based at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies,
where you can find British and Irish case law & legislation,
European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related
British and Irish material.
BAILII thanks The Scottish
Council of Law Reporting for their assistance in establishing the Historic Scottish Law
Reports project.
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for provision of servers and Bytemark
for provision of hosting services.
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2025 Sir Henry Brooke Lecture Video
A video of the 2025 Sir Henry Brooke Lecture, 'Valuing Lawyers', given by Lady Chief Justice Carr on 20 March 2025 is now available. A text version of Lady Carr's lecture is also available in BAILII's UK Judiciary Speeches database.
[NEW] Judgments on Bluesky
Follow @bailii.bsky.social on Bluesky to stay up to date with BAILII's [NEW] judgment posts. Hashtags on Bluesky make it easy to quickly see BAILII posts for a particular court/tribunal. BAILII [NEW] judgment feeds are also available on X (@bailii) and Mastodon (@bailii@legal.social).
Quick Guide to BAILII
The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies compiled a Quick Guide to BAILII.
Most-downloaded judgments
To help users stay up-to-date, BAILII now has a summary listing of the judgments viewed most often in the last week.
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BAILII searches are now available as RSS feeds. When you perform a search, you will now see a link to an RSS feed () for the results. If you copy this link into your RSS reader of choice, you will be notified whenever new items are uploaded that match the search.