JustCite FAQs – Judges in court fields

Q – Why is the name of a judge sometimes shown instead of a court?

A – Some case reports series formerly used the names of judges instead of divisions of the High Court.

Between 1951 and 2000, some case report series used the name of the judge instead of the name of the court for cases that were heard in any division of the High Court.

The series that used to follow this practice include:

• All England Law Reports
• Criminal Appeal Reports
• Industrial Cases Reports
• The Law Reports
• Lloyd’s Law Reports
• Local Government Reports
• Road Traffic Reports
• Tax Cases
• The Weekly Law Reports

A – The name of a judge may also used when cases relate to more than one court.

For example, the following case report from The Weekly Law Reports:

appears in the Citations field in JustCite like this:

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6th July 2007