JUSTIS Legal database

 

People using the PCs in any Vale library can now search UK Statues and Statutory Instruments using Justis. This database also contains UK State Trials and CELEX for EU legislation. You should use the e-mail address of your Vale Library to access Justis.

 

UK Statutes

This database contains the full text of all Acts of Parliament in England, Wales and Scotland as enacted, from 1235 to the present day.

 

UK Statutory Instruments

This is a complete electronic archive of secondary legislation covering England, Scotland and Wales from the 17th Century to the present day. Over 2,500 Statutory Instruments (SIs) are issued each year, adding to the tens of thousands that already exist. Compliance with the measures they establish is a key requirement for any organisation in the UK. SIs set out detailed provisions under the authority of the enabling Acts of Parliament for “fine tuning” of legislation.

 

State Trials

This contains over seven centuries of higher criminal jurisprudence covering English trials relating to offences against the State or trials illustrative of the law relating to State Officers, e.g. Ministers or Governors of Colonies. A wide variety of cases is covered, predominantly high treason but also bigamy, sedition, seditious libel, murder involving high-ranking officials or peers, riot, piracy, witchcraft, bribery and corruption. It comprises two of the most authoritative series of State Trials, Howell’s/Cobbett’s State Trials (1163–1822) and the New Series (Macdonell’s) (1822–1858), as well as additional material sourced from National Collections and the English (Nominate) Reports.

 

CELEX (Communitatis Europeae Lex)

This database, compiled and operated by the European Commission through the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (EUR-OP), is a documentation system for European Union law that is used by all EU institutions. The information contained in CELEX is drawn from each of the principal institutions of the European Union: the Commission, Council, Parliament and Court of Justice, making it the foundation of all the databases derived from the activities of the European Union.