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All England Law Reports

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TheAll England Law Reports(abbreviated in citations toAll ER) are a long-running series oflaw reportscovering cases from the court system inEnglandandWales.

Established in 1936,[1]the All England Law Reports are a commercially produced alternative to the "official" reports produced by theIncorporated Council of Law Reporting(under the titleThe Law Reports). The reports encompass judgments with headnotes and catchwords from theHouse of Lords,both divisions of theCourt of Appealand all divisions of the High Court.The series containscross-referencesandhypertext linksto both otherAll Englandcases and legislation cited in the Report.

The All England reports are published byLexisNexis Butterworths.A second set of reports, titledThe 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 theAll Englandseries began in 1936. A further three thousand important cases from the period 1861–1935 is available in a complementary seriesThe 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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  1. ^"The All England Law Reports Index".University of Oxford.Retrieved16 October2017.
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