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UK Links

Charities

Office of the Scottish Charities Regulator - http://www.oscr.org.uk

Charity Commission - http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/

Competition

Competition Appeal Tribunal - http://www.catribunal.org.uk/

Corporate

Companies House - http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Education

Additional Support Needs Tribunals for Scotland - http://www.asntscotland.gov.uk

Freedom of information

Information Commissioner - http://www.ico.gov.uk/tools_and_resources.aspx

Scottish Information Commissioner - http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/ApplicationsandDecisions/ApplicationsAndDecisions.asp

General

Scottish Law Commission - http://www.scotlawcom.gov.uk/html/publications.html

Journal of the Law Society of Scotland – http://www.journalonline.co.uk/default.aspx

SCOLAG - http://www.scolag.org/

Human rights

EOC Scotland - http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/foradvisers/EocLaw/Pages/default.aspx

Equality and Human Rights Commission -

Intellectual property

Copyright Tribunal - http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ctribunal.htm

IPO - http://www.ipo.gov.uk/design.htm

Information technology

Nominet - http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes/drs/decisions/

Legal profession

Scottish Solicitors Discipline Tribunal - http://www.ssdt.org.uk/findings/index.asp

Media

Press Complaints Commission - http://www.pcc.org.uk/cases/index.html

Advertising Standards Authority - http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/public/

Property

Registers of Scotland - http://www.ros.gov.uk/artl/

Lands Tribunal - http://www.lands-tribunal-scotland.org.uk/

Planning - http://planning.westlothian.gov.uk/WAM133/searchsubmit/performOption.do?action=search

Tax

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/

Utilities

PhonePayPlus (formerly Ofcom) - http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/consumers/adjudications/default.asp

Europe

European Patent Office - http://ep.espacenet.com/ or http://www.epo.org/

European Court of Human Rights - http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/

OHIM – trademarks and designs - http://oami.europa.eu/en/default.htm

World

Cases - http://www.worldlii.org/

World Intellectual Property Office - http://www.wipo.int/resource/en/

List of international court sites - http://www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/CourtWebSites/International.html - including Australia and Canada

Australia

Legislation - http://www.comlaw.gov.au/comlaw/comlaw.nsf/browseview

Parliament - http://www.aph.gov.au/index.htm

Wikipedia – links to all government/state websites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_territories_of_Australia

US

List of US Court sites - http://www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/info_court_web_sites.html

US Supreme Court - http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

US Library of Congress - http://thomas.loc.gov/ - legislation

List of US federal government and state websites - http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/us.html

USPTO - http://www.uspto.gov/index.html