It's A Boy! - UK Family Law and Other Resources

On Monday, July 22nd, Buckingham Palace, the London residence of Queen Elizabeth II of England, placed the following official announcement on an easel in the Palace forecourt: "Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4:24 p.m. today.  Her Royal Highness and her child are both doing well."  The Duchess and her husband, Prince William, will announce the name of their baby, whose official title is "Prince of Cambridge," at a later time. 

Included in the McKusick Law Library collection are several treatises on Family Law in the United Kingdom: Butterworths Family Law Handbook edited by Christina M. Lyon and Adrian P. Lyon, Children's Welfare and the Law: The Limits of Legal Intervention by Michael King and Judith Trowell, and How the Law Thinks About Children by Michael King and Christine Piper. 

Other selected United Kingdom legal resources in the McKusick Law Library and online:
1. Statutes:
-The Public General Acts (equivalent to the U.S. Statutes at Large) McKusick Law Library in print (1940-2003)
-Statutes currently in force:
 United Kingdom government database (free): legis.gov.uk
 WestlawNext (log in required)
2. Cases:
-English Reports: Full Print, McKusick Law Library in print (1220-1865)
 English Reports, Hein Online (Law Library database) (1220-1865)
 English Reports, WestlawNext (log in required) (1220-1865)
-Law Reports:
 Kings or Queens Bench Division, McKusick Law Library in print (1865-2004)
 Appeals, McKusick Law Library in print ((1875-2004)
 Chancery Division, McKusick Law Library in print (1875-2004)
 All Law Reports, WestlawNext (log in required) (1865-present)
3.  Legal Encyclopedia of British law:
-Halsbury's Laws of England  (4th ed. 1973), McKusick Law Library in print
 Halsbury's Laws of England Monthly Review - All, Lexis.com (log in required) (1996-present)

(This entry was originally written and posted by Marsha Stacey)