Category: Legal Resources
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Precedence of UK Law Reports
Precedence of United Kingdom Law Reports Hierarchy of law reports There are several situations in which a solicitor or a law professional must determine the order of precedence for two or more case reports. The 2012 Practice Direction on the Citation of Authorities ([2012] 1 WLR 780) […]
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Unreported Cases and BAILII
From BAILII : There is still a restriction on the number of English cases from Divisions of the High Court which can be added to the BAILII database which arises from the fact that the shorthand-writers who transcribe judgments which have been given verbally (as opposed to judgments handed […]
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Regnal Years
Introduction In the history of England and Scotland (and of several European countries) it was common practice to date some documents not according to the running number of the year, but according to the year of the presiding monarch. A system known as regnal years was used. The regnal year […]
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Dictionaries
English Dictionaries Peter Cane and Joanne Conaghan, The new Oxford companion to law, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) Jonathan Law and Elizabeth A. Martin, A dictionary of law, 7th ed. (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009) James E. Penner, The law student’s […]