There is no electronic filing in England & Wales, and until there is such a database will remain a pipe dream. A subscription to Bloomberg Law, which covers filings in the High Court and some county courts, may suffice - but it is reactive - i.e. you request the documents and someone has to physically go to the court and collect them.
Court documents have only been available to non-parties since 2 October 2006, so anything filed before that is not available.
The US PACER system does not have an equivalent in England & Wales.
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Anneli Sarkanen said
at 3:28 pm on Nov 25, 2009
A discussion of obtaining UK court documents (and European ones) is in this blog post here: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2009/05/access-to-court-records-in-the-uk-and-europe.html which may be of interest...
Anneli Sarkanen said
at 3:07 pm on Mar 1, 2010
[Comment from another user]: Regarding costs of obtaining UK "court filings" see:
http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/news/1561657/plan-charge-gbp350-supreme-court-documents-met-criticism
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