About Us
The ICLR
The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales was established in 1865 by members of the legal profession with the object of "preparation and publication, in a convenient form, at a moderate price, and under gratuitous professional control, of Reports of Judicial Decisions of the Superior and Appellate Courts in England and Wales"
(Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1870)
It is from this that we established our Vision and Values that we live by today.
This is as important today as ever. And explains why we are...
Preferred by judges:
“Citation of judgments in court
3.1 For the avoidance of doubt, 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. Other series may only be used when a case is not reported in the Law Reports.”
Lord Woolf CJ
Practice Direction (Judgments: Form and Citation) (Supreme Court)
[2001] 1 WLR 194
“The profession needed to be reminded that the relevant authorities should be copied from the official Law Reports (published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales), and only if not should reports from the All England Law Reports (“All ER”) or a specialist law report series be included. In addition if a case was reported in volume 1 of the Weekly Law Reports that report should be used in preference to the report in the All ER. British and Irish Legal Information Institute (“BAILII”) judgments (with neutral citation numbers) should only be used if no other recognised reports were available.”
Sir Nicholas Wall P
TW v A City Council [2011] EWCA Civ 17; [2011] WLR (D) 9
As well as the official Law Reports, ICLR publishes the Weekly Law Reports, the Industrial Cases Reports, the Business Law Reports, the Public and Third Sector Law Reports and the Statutes and Public and General Acts.