Past Legal Court case examples? (lawyers use), Online Access to them ?

katesheet

When both the claimant and defendant end up in court, for a case between them

the lawyer/ attorney of both challenge the case, back and forth in front of the judge and jury,

and when they pull past cases of past 'similar' cases to this case, and bring it infront of the judges presence

like this:

"There was a similar case to this, in 2013, where XYZ happened, to this other person, etc etc"
in order to help this lawyers' argument, pulling up past examples.

Now back to the question:

Where are these types of past cases held /stored online, so that anybody can access them ?
(for researching)

in a library online?

That they can be accessed? (by anyone that is) ?

or any sites,where you have to mabey pay a fee?



So, past cases, from any type of law such Immigration, Family Law, money claims, etc etc..



Also a database/access to Worldwide cases would be handy too (not just the UK)



and I mean detailed versions, of the cases (not really summaries)


Thanks

OnanTheBarbarian

This is one of your best bets

http://www.bailii.org/

A lot of the other sources of caselaw are paid for subscription services such as Lawtel, Lexis Nexis, Current Law etc run by the legal publishing houses like Sweet & Maxwell.

If you know the actual name of the case, you can sometimes get lucky on a google search