Finding Great Britain Law and Leisure on the Web
Compiled by Shirley H. David, Sacramento County Public Law Librarian

This Surfing sidebar is in honor of Joan Stone, our new county bar association president, who is from Scotland, and because an article about the English legal system is published in Sacramento Lawyer this month.

http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/gb.html

Governments on the Web: Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This site comprises pages of links to just about any government site you would need from the parliament and monarchy sites to the local constabulary to local tourist boards. Also links to secondary sources like encyclopedia articles and the United Kingdom pages on the World Travel Guide.

http://www.bailii.org/

British and Irish Legal Information Institute A good site to find court opinions for free. This site is well organized and includes a word search engine.

http://www.hg.org/calendar.html

Hieros Gamos Worldwide Law Events Calendar Find a class as an excuse to travel to Scotland and receive CLE credit too.

http://www.travelbritain.org/

http://www.great-britain.org/

http://www.britannia.com/

There are many travel organization and agencies on the web. Beware of the annoying pop-up windows.