BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)
BAILII provides free public access to primary legal materials from the UK and Ireland, including case law and legislation across the various jurisdictions. For many years it has been one of the first places practitioners and researchers turn to when they need to read a judgment without a paid subscription.
Most content sits under Crown copyright and the Open Government Licence, but BAILII itself is best treated as open access rather than an open reuse licence. You can read the material freely, but it does not grant a blanket right to redistribute or build a commercial product on the full collection, so check the terms before bulk-harvesting it for a RAG index.
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