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Authorised Law Reports

A research guide to understand and discover Authorised Law Reports for Australia, it's states and other jurisdictions.

United Kingdom - English Reports

Law reports published before the founding of the Council of Law Reporting in 1865 were known as nominate reports. There are over 300 published nominate report series. Most of them have been reprinted in The English Reports (abbreviated ‘ER’) or the Revised Reports (abbreviated ‘RR’). Where available, citations of nominate reports should also include the relevant volume of ER or RR. The ER should be cited in preference to the RR.

UK English Reports and Examples of Nominate Reports


Title of Reporting Series

Abbreviation of Report Series

Unimelb Online Holdings

Unimelb Print Holdings

Example Citation (AGLC4 citation style)

English Reports

ER

v.1 1220-v.176 1867

HeinOnline

v.1 1677 - v.176 1867

Curling v Austin (1862) 62 ER 570

Revised Reports

RR

v.1 1785-v.149 1866

HeinOnline

v.1 1785 - v.149 1866

Eastwood v Lever (1863) 146 RR 234

Best & Smith’s Reports

B&S

Not available online

v.1 1861 – v.10 1869

Caey v The Local Board of Health of Kingston upon Hull (1848) 5 B&S 815; 122 ER 1033

Deacon & Chitty Bankruptcy Reports

Deac & Ch

Not available online

v.1 1832 – v.4 1835

Re Postle; Ex parte Bignold (1835) 4 Deac & Ch 259

Manson's Bankruptcy and Companies Winding-up Cases

Mans

Not available online

v.1 1894 – v.12 1905

De Grelle & Co v Bull and Ward (1984) 1 Mans 118

 


For more information on early English law reporting, see the: