The All England Law Reports (abbreviated in citations to All ER) are a long-running series of
law reports covering cases from the court system in
England
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and
Wales
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.
Established in 1936,
the All England Law Reports are a commercially produced alternative to the "official" reports produced by the
Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (under the title
The Law Reports). The reports encompass judgments with headnotes and catchwords from the
House of Lords
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, both divisions of the
Court of Appeal and all divisions of the
High Court. The series contains
cross-references
The term cross-reference (abbreviation: xref) can refer to either:
* An instance within a document which refers to related information elsewhere in the same document. In both printed and online dictionaries cross-references are important because ...
and
hypertext links to both other ''All England'' cases and legislation cited in the Report.
The All England reports are published by
LexisNexis Butterworths. A second set of reports, titled The All England Law Reports Reprint (All ER Reprints), has been published to cover around six thousand key cases from between 1558 and when the publication of the ''All England'' series began in 1936. A further three thousand important cases from the period 1861–1935 is available in a complementary series The All England Reprints Extension. The latter series is published by LexisNexis Australia, while the former two are published by the company's UK division.
Two further sets of reports – the All England Commercial Reports and the All England Law Reports (European Cases) – have also been released. The European series was discontinued in 2005.
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All England Law Reports
Case law reporters
1936 establishments in England
English law
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Archives in England