Civil Procedure Rules and Practice and Practice Directions. The official text, regularly updated but without explanatory notes.

Chancery Guide. Limited information on IP cases but the Appendices have useful guidance on Statements of Case, Bundles, Skeletons etc., as well as address and communication information for court officials.

Patents Court Guide. Always needs to be checked against the CPRs and Practice Directions in case the general rule/practice is modified for Patents Court.

Court Service form finder. The complete catalogue of downloadable court forms, with a useful search facility.

Laserform. For those who want to pay a licence fee to use electronically generated forms. Not official but very reliable.

"Yet another Woolf site". A commentary and updater (usually quicker than the DCA) on the CPRs, prepared by a set of barristers. May be useful if you are out of reach of Blackstones or the White Book.

Court of First Instance. Including a link to its rules of procedure.

House of Lords - link to the "blue book", the procedural bible for appeals to the House of Lords

Court Service official listing of High Court fees.

Court Service official listing of County Court fees.

Costs guideline hourly rates; assembled by the Courts Service and setting out the hourly rates for different locations that are taken as guidelines on costs assessments.

Hogarth Chambers (Roger Wyand QC and all the NLS tutors, plus more)

3 New Square (Anthony Watson QC and others)

8 New Square (Mark Platts Mills QC and others)

Wilberforce Chambers (General set but includes two former solicitors, Alan Bryson and Anna Carboni)

11 South Square (Christopher Floyd QC and others)

The Academy of Experts. Professional Body for Expert Witnesses.

Expert Witness Institute. The other professional body. Also with a search facility.

The Expert Witness Directory. Published by Sweet & Maxwell with a sophisticated search facility.

Association of British Investigators. The site includes a search facility for investigators who are members of, and approved by, this organisation.

Institute of Professional Investigators. The other professional organisation for enquiry agents; also with a searchable database of members.

Amsel & Co. A specialist IP investigation team; well known to many of us and very effective.

Edwin Coe. A well established litigation firm which undertakes London agency work.

KSB Law. A firm of solicitors with a long established "London agency" department. E-mail casemanagement@ksblaw.co.uk

Blaize. A firm that specialises in court work in London on an agency basis. More reliable than post for important cases and may be able to stand in on hearings.

Mori - the pollsters

NOP - the other pollsters

Companies House. The starting point for checking up on a limited liability company.

192.com. A search site for tracing people.

Searchable archive of website material

Judgments (High Court and County Court) and fines (magistrates court and crown court)

Searchable databases of bankrupts operated by the Insolvency Service

Tape transcript request form, available on the Court Service website

List of authorised members of the tape transcription panel, maintained by the Court Service.

Marten Walsh Cherer. The transcript organisation that is probably most familiar to IP practitioners, and with a wealth of experience in the field.

Wordwave. The new name for Smith Bernal. Another well known court reporter. Has the contract for all Court of Appeal cases.

Guide to Professional Standards. The solicitors bible, searchable on the Law Society website. May provide a touchstone if CIPA/ITMA rules silent on a point.

Bar Council Code of Conduct. Another source of guidance, particularly in relation to advocacy.

HM Court Service - home page with links to a large body of information about the courts in England and Wales.

Judiciary of England and Wales

European Court of Justice - home page

Daily Cause List (which judge is hearing which case tomorrow)

British and Irish Legal Information Institute - BAILII - free case reports, including Patents Court

ECJ - case search tool - free

Incorporated Council of Law Reporting. Includes the Weekly Law Reports.

Weekly Law Report. Free daily summaries and archive. Probably only useful for procedural issues (and browse, rather than search, facility)

House of Lords Judgments since November 1996

Searchable version (not that easy to use) of Hansard report of House of Commons or House of Lords debates since 1988.

Free database of legislation from 1988. Office of Public Sector Information

IP Menu. A website of links to IP-related websites worldwide. Organised in categories. Developed by Australian firm Phillips, Ormonde & Fitzpatrick

Statute Law Database; official database of primary legislation; long awaited but very good.

Acronym Finder. What an acronym, abbreviation or set of initials stands for.

Whatis.com. The meaning of IT words and expressions.

Free dictionaries in one site.

British Library - Business and IP Centre

Dept. of Trade and Industry.

Europa. Portal for European Union.

Direct.gov.uk. "Public services all in one place", as it says in the advert.

British Library links to trade mark databases worldwide..

Currency convertor; free Reuters service; easy to use.

IPKat. The well known IP blog by Jeremy Phillips and Illanah Simon.

Naked Law. Mills & Reeve technology law blog.

Binary law. Nick Holmes legal information blog

Out-law. Pinsent Masons free legal news and guidance mostly on IT and e-commerce

IP daily update - a wiki covering IP news; still developing