Incorporated Council of Law Reporting

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The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales
Company type
The Law Reports
Weekly Law Reports
Industrial Cases Reports
The Business Law Reports
The Public and Third Sector Law Reports
Number of employees
60
Websiteiclr.co.uk

The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) is a

academics, journalists, lawyers and judges across the country.[1]

History

The ICLR was founded in 1865 by W. T. S. Daniel

QC, and its first meeting took place on 25 February at Westminster Hall,[2] then the home of the Court of King's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of Chancery. The council was incorporated under the Companies Act 1862 in 1870.[2]

Largely working "as a private enterprise without state aid or interference,"

Attorney General, it was held that "the Council was established for exclusively charitable purposes since its purpose was to further the development and administration of the law and to make it known or accessible to all members of the community, which was a purpose beneficial to the community and of general public utility."[3] In 1970, then, the ICLR was successfully registered as a charity in England and Wales.[2]

Currently

chaired by Richard Fleck CBE, the ICLR's council consists of members nominated by each of the Inns of Court and by the General Council of the Bar, and is based on Chancery Lane, London.[4]

Objectives and procedures

According to the company's memorandum of association, the ICLR was established with the following principal aim:

The preparation and publication, in a convenient form, at a moderate price, and under gratuitous professional control, of [The Law] Reports of Judicial Decisions of the Superior and Appellate Courts in England and Wales.[5]

The ICLR also has a set of criteria for law reporting, originally proposed by Nathaniel Lindley (who later became Master of the Rolls and subsequently a Lord of Appeal), which said that care should be taken to exclude from the reports those cases that passed without discussion and were valueless as precedents, and those that were substantially repetitions of earlier reports[6] to which was added the following list of valuable (and thus worthy of reporting) categories:

  • All cases which introduce, or appear to introduce, a new principle or a new rule.
  • All cases which materially modify an existing principle or rule.
  • All cases which settle, or materially tend to settle, a question upon which the law is doubtful.
  • All cases which for any reason are peculiarly instructive.[6]

Publications

The primary series of reports published by the ICLR is The Law Reports, which the council maintains are "'the most authoritative reports' and should always be 'cited in preference where there is a choice'."[7] This series is divided into four main sub-series:

Additional reports published by the ICLR include The Weekly Law Reports (W.L.R.),

employment tribunals;[24] The Business Law Reports (Bus. L.R.),[26] started in 2007[27] and covering company, commercial and intellectual property law;[26] and The Public and Third Sector Law Reports (P.T.S.R.),[28] started in 2009[29] and covering issues such as adoption, charity, ecclesiastical law, education, environmental law, health law, housing, human rights, local government, public health law and social welfare.[28]

It also published annual volumes of U.K. legislation from 1866 to 2010.[30]

Most of its reports were available electronically on Westlaw and LexisNexis until the beginning of 2017, when the ICLR instead published its reports exclusively on its platform.

Notes

  1. Court of Appeal
    require that where a case has been reported in the official Law Reports published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales it must be cited from that source. Other series of reports may only be used when a case is not reported in the Law Reports.").
  2. ^ a b c d e "The History of The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales". The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales. Archived from the original on January 16, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  3. ^
    Civil Division
    ) 14 October 1971).
  4. ^ "The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales Today". The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales. Archived from the original on March 16, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  5. ^ "The ICLR Home Page". The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales. Archived from the original on March 17, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  6. ^ a b "Criteria for Law Reporting". The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales. Archived from the original on January 16, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  7. ^ "The Law Reports - Cases Reported Index". The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales. Archived from the original on January 16, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  8. ^ "Law Reports, English & Irish Appeals". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  9. ^ "Law Reports, Appeal Cases (Second Series)". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  10. ^ "Law Reports, Appeal Cases (Third Series)". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  11. ^ "Law Reports, Chancery Appeal Cases". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  12. ^ "Law Reports, Chancery Division (2nd Series)". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  13. ^ "Law Reports, Chancery Division (3rd Series)". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  14. ^ "Law Reports, Probate & Divorce Cases". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Retrieved March 10, 2010.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ "Law Reports, Probate, Divorce & Admiralty Division". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  16. ^ "Law Reports, Probate". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  17. ^ "Law Reports, Family Division". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  18. ^ "Law Reports, Queen's Bench (1st Series)". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  19. ^ "Law Reports, Queen's Bench Division". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  20. ^ a b "Law Reports, Queen's Bench (3rd Series)". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  21. ^ "Law Reports, King's Bench". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  22. ^ a b "The Weekly Law Reports Latest Cases". The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales. Archived from the original on January 13, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  23. ^ "The Weekly Law Reports". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  24. ^ a b "The Industrial Cases Reports Reprint Special Offer". The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales. Archived from the original on April 2, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  25. ^ "Industrial Cases Reports". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  26. ^ a b "ICLR Online - Home". The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  27. ^ "The Business Law Reports". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  28. ^ a b "The Public and Third Sector Law Reports Latest Cases". The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales. Archived from the original on July 11, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  29. ^ "The Public and Third Sector Law Reports". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  30. ^ "Where is legislation published?".

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