Law report
Law report is a published record of judicial decisions which are cited by
lawyers and judges for the further use as president. The law report consists
of title ,statement of facts, and the history of the court it further provides
opinion of the court and it concludes with the judgment of the court either
affirming or reversing the decision of the court below
The law report began in the late 19th century prior to that in 1865 a
barrister used to attend the hearing and wrote up and published a report of
the case . Many such old reports were combined and a 172 volume know as
English report was made
The law report needs to contain a statement of principle of law decided in
the case. The statement should be expressed as a rule or preposition which
can be applied in subsequent cases even if the facts are not the same to
assure the reader of the reliability of the report all elements like title date
principle of law reporter must be mention and it is preferred that the
reporter may be a qualified lawyer
Law reports are of two boat types
1. Full text law report
2. Summary report
1. Full text law report is incorporates the full judgment given by the court
together with a summary of the case known as head notes
(They are considered the most authoritative source of law reports providing
the full context and reasoning behind the court decision. it provides a
detailed and accurate information of the case)
2. Summary report it can also be called as k summary digest case notes and
our less formal than a full text no report (The summary reports on the other
hand is considered version of the full text law report it provides a brief
overview of the case including a summary of the facts the main legal issues
and arguments the court's decision and reasoning the key points of law and
their application summary reports are used for quick understanding the
essence of a case without having to read the entire full text law report they
are often used for resource for post to get general sense of the case)
History.
Law in India was not codified before the advent of British rule the East
India company introduced the English laws into the Indian judicial system
it was the first law commission that suggested proper codification of the
decision taken by the deewani Adalat following which seven volumes of
cases from 1791 to 1849 what complied in Kolkata in 1800 high courts had
been set up in Bombay Madras and Calcutta during this time several report
of complied as private publication such as Madras jurist also came into
existence
The Indian law report act was brought into existence in 1875
The idea was off covering the ever growing number of private law report
published several private law reports begin a accumulating cases and
selling them in bulk the issue your was that the idea behind law reporting is
reporting new presidents and not simply putting together use number of
cases the purpose behind the act was reduce the number of report and
improve this quality but the act fail to make anything changes in present
law commission has suggested that law report act to be repealed
Classification of law report
1. Official reports this are published by authorities example Indian law
report
2. Non official report this are published by private reporters or privately
published
Geographical
3. A i r (all India report) this publish president from across state they
contain presidence set in the supreme court or High court example all India
Law report
4. State specific report day published presidence set only in a science state
example Allahabad weekly report
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