Researching Law cases

Former Member

I'm trying to find out where you can research past law cases - ideally online.

what I'm trying to find out is about any big cases particularly in the UK or USA where people sued for anything involving fires.

Former Member

Landmark is good for major US supreme court cases

I think its just landmarkcases.org

findlaw.com has some good information, if you know exactly what your looking for, else it tends to be alot of random clicking. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casesummary/index.html
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&navby=vol&vol=394

Are you looking for arson?

law.com is also helpful, in a way, if you search they can give you specific cases, but you have to be subscribed... but you can take the case names and just search them on the web
http://quest.law.com/Search/Search.do?Ntt=arson&Nty=1&N=0&Ntk=SI_All&cx=1&sortVar=1&cof=FORID%3A11

Former Member

my_name wrote: »

Are you looking for arson?

not in particular (although would be of some interest) - more accidental fires that could have been prevented or things that could be better protected against burning..

for instance this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Safety_problems

or even just major things like this:

http://tinyurl.com/y5uc

Former Member

I didn't know you could research law cases online?

I had to get mine from westlaw and lexisnexis when I was studying for my law degree and that required an athens password!

JsT

*Snow White Queen* wrote: »

I didn't know you could research law cases online?

I had to get mine from westlaw and lexisnexis when I was studying for my law degree and that required an athens password!

Athens sucks!

Bunnie

Apart from the others mentioned, Halsbury's online is useful, as well as Lawtel.

Both these, and SWQ's suggestions need a uni login, and if you havent got one, PM me, and Ill research for you.

Former Member

Thanks I'll see how far I can get just found this case - think the amounts in question are crazy though

http://tinyurl.com/ysbuw4

Awarding 1 family almost $5 Billion kind of makes a joke out of the legal system and just means in reality they're likely to face many more years in court on appeals.

Former Member

For specialist legal knowledge LexisNexis or Butterworths are the best, but you have to know what you're looking for. BAILII is really good, too, and is free, but the older case history is limited. I tend to use BAILII or LexisNexis at work.