Welcome to CrimeLine

CrimeLine provides timely and accurate news, knowledge, commentary, legal awareness and updating to criminal law & regulatory professionals across private practice, government and judiciary in the UK and abroad, along with legal research tools. Read what our members think of us on Trustpilot.

Research Tools

CrimeLineAssist is our lawyer-led personal research service. Tap into our decades of criminal law experience and vast library resources. This is complemented by sophisticated research and document analysis tools:


CrimeLine ASK & DocAssist – learn about our knowledge ecosystem



Note that the research tools are a complimentary (non-contractual) part of our service, subject to fair use and may be withdrawn.

Resources

Criminal Practice: Online legal text, constantly updated to ensure the most current and accurate content

CrimeLine Criminal Costs: A leading guide to crime costs and contracting, constantly updated

CrimeLine Alert: Email awareness newsletter bringing subscribers the latest cases, legislation and news

CPD and Competence for barristers, solicitors, Cilex and criminal law fee-earners (inc police stations reps)

Case databases – we have supply contracts with Court of Appeal transcribers, ensuring that we receive a feed of all judgments, which are quickly uploaded and digested. Free services such as Bailii and The National Archives typically carry only a small percentage of published transcripts

Legal Resources: Curated materials essential to criminal practice, including practical precedents

News Centre provides real-time news feeds updated throughout each working day. Each week our team sifts through thousands of news items/updates to bring you only what is essential, saving you hours of reading time

Extradition Hub in Partnership with 9 Bedford Row

In addition, and at no additional cost, we offer a rolling regulatory law update:

CrimeLine Regulatory News Feed digests across almost 200 different sources to bring you market-leading intelligence in relation to:

Data Protection
Environment
Food Safety
Health and Safety
Money Laundering and Finance
The Professions
Transport and Haulage, and
Other miscellaneous areas of regulatory practice including nuclear and shipping.

(c) Crown Copyright material –  Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Justice – Licence v1.0 and Supreme Court information licensed under the Open Supreme Court Licence v1.0.