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106 resource guides
Bar and Bench covers the legal industry itself — court reporting, judgment PDFs, and the kind of coverage that matters if you follow which lawyers argued which case, or how a bench is composed. Free to read, with select premium…
PRS is a non-profit think tank, not a government body, and its entire purpose is to make Parliament legible to ordinary citizens: plain-language Bill summaries, tracking of what's actually happening in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, and —…
Advocate Khoj has been around long enough to feel a little unfashionable next to Indian Kanoon, but it still holds a genuinely useful open archive of Supreme Court judgments by year, plus bare acts and legal forms. Worth checking as a…
SCC Online itself — the case-law database many Indian law firms subscribe to — is not open access. Its public blog is, however, and it's a genuinely useful free summary service for major Supreme Court and High Court rulings, written by…
IALS is a University of London research institute, and its digital-resources guide is less a database in its own right and more a curated, vetted list — the kind of thing law librarians point students to when they want confidence that a…
A university-hosted, open-access research guide aimed squarely at students and researchers new to Indian legal research, pointing them toward India Code and Indian Kanoon with plain explanations of what each database is good for. If…
Before there was an e-Gazette portal, there were physical Gazettes going back to British India, and the National Archives is where the digitised versions of those historical records live. Genuinely useful if your research question is…
A specific, slightly hidden gem: a digitisation project (documented via an Oxford library guide) that put the old Indian Law Reports — Allahabad, Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Lahore, Rangoon, Patna, Lucknow — online as open-access scanned…
WorldLII is the closest thing to a "search everywhere at once" button for free law worldwide. It federates AustLII, BAILII, CanLII, HKLII, Cornell's LII, PacLII, and its own databases into a single search covering more than 1,800…
CommonLII fills a specific gap: Commonwealth countries — Bangladesh, Nigeria, various Caribbean states — that don't have their own well-resourced national LII get folded into this shared database instead. If you're researching a smaller…