Case Layout

  • Case Name – with Court Code and Date. Please note that the same case can be named variously by different reports. We do not always know the Court or the specific date.
  • Headline
  • Summary – a text summary – often with essential quotes from the judgments
  • References – Paper and other external resources – law reports series – eg [1993] 1 WLR 564
  • Links – On-line full text decisions (very often) – click the link to see
  • Coram – The judges sitting in the case
  • Statutes – Statutory references – find other cases on the same Act / Regulation/ Order by clicking the link.
  • This Case Cites – cases cited by this case – with a brief extract of our summary and a link to the full text where available and or our full entries for it.
  • This case is cited by: – cases citing this case – with extract etc as above.
  • Area(s) of law applicable
  • Tag
  • Last update. Our reference
  • You will soon see that we hold different elements for the cases. The more important the case, the more detail we try to give.