Law: Legislation

Official parliamentary website that provides introductory information on how laws are made in the UK, the passage of a bill to being an Act of Parliament and the role of secondary legislation (statutory instruments).

This video (starts at 3 minute 54 seconds) is produced by lawbank.co.uk and gives a very basic introduction to the structure and terminology of an Act of Parliament e.g. short and long title, official citation and the date of Royal Assent.

Legislation.gov.uk carries most (but not all) types of legislation and their accompanying explanatory documents. The site holds all primary legislation from 1988 to the present day and most pre-1988 primary legislation. It also holds secondary legislation from 1987, including UK Statutory Instruments, although these are only as enacted.

BAILII 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. For information on which judgements are added to the database see www.bailii.org/bailii/summary-cases.html

This database allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications or search a publication title to find the approved abbreviation.

UK Parliament webpage that sets out the proposals for new laws, and plans to change existing laws, that are presented for debate before Parliament.

The Official Report (Hansard) is the edited report of proceedings of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.