Official reports - The publication of cumulated court decisions of state or federal courts in advance sheets and bound volumes as provided by statutory authority.
Official Reports:
Collections of decisions published by or on behalf of the deciding jurisdiction.
Opening Statement: ...
The decisions of one state, however, are now best known in others through unofficial reports. One large publishing concern prints every case decided in the courts of last resort.
The language, quality, and accuracy of unofficial reports do not differ from official texts, however, unofficial versions may contain research aids (such as headnotes or case annotations) that are not available in official versions.
They were published at the expense of the Crown, but they were not official reports of cases. The printed versions were arranged by year, but it sometimes took two or three years after a case had been decided for it to be reported.
analyzing the facts, the applicable law and the arguments of the attorneys for the parties. Those opinions considered by the court to be worthy of serving as a precedent or involving important legal issues will be published in the official reports ...
The name Hansard was officially adopted in 1943 after Luke Hansard (1752 - 1828) who was the printer of the House of Commons Journal from 1774. The first detailed official reports were published in 1803 in William Cobbett's Political Register by the ...
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