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Law Reports
Last modified: Thu Feb 23 16:37:37 2006
A publication of the Council of Law Reporting, reporting on the outcomes
of selected court cases (see: CaseLaw). This organization does not
have a monopoly on such reporting, but it does have a semi-official status.
It is administered jointly by the Inns of Court (see: InnsOfCourt)
and the Law Society (see: LawSociety). Its reporters are barristers.
References to cases published in the Law Reports are cited like this:
plaintiff v defendent [year] volume series page
The plaintiff may be `R' or `Regina' for Crown cases. For the High Court,
the series abbreviations
are `Ch' (Chancery Division), `F' (Family Division), `QB' (Queen's Bench),
and `P' (Probate, Admiralty and Divorce -- now defunct). Court of Appeal
cases are reported alongseide the court from which the appeal was made,
not in a separate volume. The code `AC' indicates an appeal
heard by the House of Lords (see: HouseOfLords) or Privy Council
(see: PrivyCouncil) .
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