Guides

Cases and their status as good law In a Common Law jurisdiction, judges have the ability to change or clarify the law and to set precedents which bind the court in later cases. But as the law is continually developing, and as cases decided by one court can be affected by later decisions of a… Continue reading

The ICLR.3 Trial Access Guide provides trial users with a handy overview of ICLR.3’s key features along with basic information on the following topics: Logging in to your trial account Navigating recent case law by legal topic Performing simple searches Accessing law reports as PDFs Series available via our trial access programme. If you’d like to sign… Continue reading

The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) has been reporting the significant decisions of the superior courts since its foundation in 1865. Over the years, the titles under which those reports have been organised has changed. This guide aims to provide a conspectus of all the various series published at various… Continue reading

Content on ICLR.3 is ordered according to a consistent, human-readable URL  structure that provides a straightforward interface for publishers, news providers and academic institutions to target cases on the platform in bulk in a programmatic setting. The pubrefLookup method allows you to systematically target cases on ICLR.3 according to their citation. For example, to target… Continue reading

Click on the image below to view and listen to the interactive guide to the different elements of a law report at Learnmore, by Lawbore.  … Continue reading

People often ask us, how do you decide whether or not to report a case? What are your criteria for assessing precedential value?… Continue reading