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The Law Reports Online

The leading series The Law Reports is now available online
The Law Reports Online
Since 1865, The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales has been diligently serving the needs of solicitors, barristers and judges throughout the common law world by publishing The Law Reports, reporting on the most important cases heard in the higher courts.

The cases selected for publication include:

  • 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

    The Law Reports are the preferred cases for citation in court. Each report includes an expertly written headnote summarising the case and where its precedent value lies. Uniquely the arguments of counsel are also included, allowing you to see not only the judgement, but also the arguments upon which the case was decided.

    In total, the service gives you access to an archive of 48 000 cases – one of the largest and most authoritative case law databases available.

    Precedent is second only to legislation as a source of law, so you can not afford to be without The Law Reports.


    We report every important case from:
    • The Queen's Bench Division
    • The Chancery Division
    • The Family Division
    • The Court of Appeal - Civil and Criminal Divisions
    • The House of Lords
    • The Privy Council
    Plus cases of special interest from the Employment Appeal Tribunal, and the European Court of Justice.


    "… it should be emphasised that both the High Court and the 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.
    It will … be permissible to cite a judgment reported in a series of reports, including those of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, by means of a copy of a reproduction of the judgment in electronic form."
    Practice Direction (Judgments: Form Citation) (Supreme Court) [2001] 1 WLR 194


    TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE
    • Admiralty
    • Bankruptcy and insolvency
    • Children
    • Company and partnership
    • Conflict of laws
    • Contract
    • Coroner inquests
    • Costs
    • Crime
    • Defamation
    • Ecclesiastical law
    • Extradition
    • Freedom of information
    • Housing
    • Human rights
    • Immigration
    • Injunctions
    • Judicial review
    • Landlord and tenant
    • Limitation of action
    • Local government
    • Matrimony
    • Negligence
    • Planning
    • Prisons
    • Property
    • Revenue and tax
    • Social security
    • Torts
    • Trusts

    WHY GO ONLINE WITH JORDANS?

  • Access from anywhere
    Log on from the office, from home or anywhere else with internet access. Your library is as portable as you are.
  • Access always available
    Your archive of law reports is always complete – no need to wait for your colleagues to finish with the issue that you need or worry about missing parts.
  • Faster research
    Use the search engine to find the information you need quickly.
  • Easy printing
    Easily print reports to take to court, or to read when you are offline.
  • Copy into your word processor
    Copy and paste relevant sections of text into your word processor when drafting skeleton arguments, applications and submissions.

    To request a free trial to The Law Reports Online click here

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