Law reports in the Library collection

On this page, we detail the Library's extensive print collection of law report series, which cover cases from 1485 up to the 2010s. For more general information on how to find and access law reports, transcripts, and other case law sources — including through our online databases — see our main case law guide.

The table below lists, in alphabetical order, all of the law report series held in print format by the Library & Information Service. It includes a brief indication of the extent of our holdings for each. For more information on a particular series, click on its title to view its catalogue record.

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Title	Print holdings/coverage	Notes
Accountant Law Reports	Vols. XV (new series) - LXXXIV. The first 14 volumes are contained in the corresponding volumes of The Accountant.	More information on this title can be found on its dedicated page.
Adolphus & Ellis's Queen's Bench Reports	Vols. I-XI, 1834-1840	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
All England Law Reports	1936-2002	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+. The Library also holds a user's guide and consolidated tables and index for this series, as well as some print editions of the All England Law Reports Annual Review.
All England Law Reports Reprint	1558-1935	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+. The Library also holds an index and tables of cases for this series.
Ambler's Chancery Reports	Parts I-II, 1737-1784	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Annotated Tax Cases	Vols. 1-54, 1922-1975	Originally a supplement to The Accountant. The Library also holds an index for this series.
Atkyns' Chancery Reports	Vols. I-III, 1736-1754	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Ball & Beatty's Reports	Vols. I-II, 1807-1814	Volume I and Volume II are freely available online via Google Books.
Barnewall and Adolphus' King's Bench Reports	Vols. I-V, 1830-1834	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Barnewall and Alderson's King's Bench Reports	Vol. I, 1817/18; Vols. III-V, 1819/20-1821/22	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Barnewall and Cresswell's King's Bench Reports	Vols. I-X, 1822-1830	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Beatty's Irish Chancery Reports	1813-1830	Freely available online via Google Books.
Beavan's Rolls Court Reports	Vols. 1-36, 1838-1866	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Belt's Supplement to Vesey Senior's Chancery Reports	1746-1755	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Bingham's New Cases	Vols. I-VI, 1834-1840	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Blackstone's (H.) Common Pleas Reports	Vols. I-II, 1788-1796	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Blackstone's (W.) King's Bench Reports	Vols. I-II, 1746-1779	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Bligh's House of Lords Reports	Vols. I-IV, 1819-1821	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Bligh's House of Lords Reports, New Series	Vols. I-XI, 1827-1837	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Bosanquet & Puller's Common Pleas Reports	Vols. I-III, 1796-1804	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
British Company Cases	1984 ed. - 2000 ed.	Between 1983 and 1989, this series was titled 'British Company Law Cases'.
British Tax Cases	1993 ed. - 2010 ed.	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via the Croner-i Tax and Accounting database.
Broderip & Bingham's Common Pleas Reports	Vols. I-III, 1819-1822	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Brown's Chancery Cases	Vols. I-IV, 1778-1794	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Brown's Cases in Parliament	Vols. 1-7, 1701-1779	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Campbell's Nisi Prius Cases	Vols. I-IV, 1807-1816	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Capital Transfer Tax Cases	Nos. 1-29, 1979-1986
Cases in Chancery	Vols. I-II, 1660-1688	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Clark & Finnelly's House of Lords Cases	Vols. I-XII, 1831-1846	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Coke's Reports	Vols. I-VI, 1572-1616	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Collyer's Chancery Cases	Vols. I-II, 1844-1846	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Common Bench Reports (Manning, Granger & Scott)	Vols. I-XVIII, 1845-1856	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Cooper's (G.) Chancery Reports tempore Eldon	1815	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Cowper's King's Bench Reports	Vols. I-II, 1774-1778	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Cox's Equity Cases	Vols. I-II, 1783-1796	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Craig & Phillips' Chancery Reports	1840-1841	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
CTT Reports	1978-1982	Contains reports on cases in Capital Transfer Tax. Between 1983 and 1986 this series was published as a supplement to the journal "CTT News and Reports" which in 1986 changed title to "Capital Taxes News and Reports".
De Gex & Jones' Chancery Reports	Vols. I-IV, 1857-1859	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
De Gex, Jones & Smith's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-IV, 1862-1865	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
De Gex, Fisher & Jones' Chancery Reports	Vols. I-IV, 1859-1862	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
De Gex & Smale's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-V, 1846-1852	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Dickens' Chancery Reports	Vols. I-II, 1559-1798	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Douglas' King's Bench Reports	Vol. I, 1778-1781	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Dow's House of Lords Cases	Vols. I-VI, 1812-1818	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Dow & Clark's House of Lords Cases	Vols. I-II, 1827-1832	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Drewry's Chancery Reports tempore Kindersley	Vols. I-IV, 1852-1859	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Drewry & Smale's Chancery Reports tempore Kindersley	Vols. I-II, 1859-1865	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Drury's Irish Chancery Reports tempore Sugden	1843-1844	Freely available online via Google Books.
Drury & Warren's Irish Chancery Reports	Vols. I-IV, 1841-1843	Volume I, Volume III, and Volume IV are freely available online via Google Books.
Durnford & East's Term Reports, King's Bench	Vols. I-VIII, 1785-1800	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
East's Term Reports, King's Bench	Vols. I-XVI, 1800-1812	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Eden's Chancery Reports tempore Northington	Vols. I-II, 1757-1766	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Equity Cases Abridged	1681-1730; 1718?-1744	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Espinasse's Nisi Prius Reports	Vols. I-VI, 1793-1810	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Excess Profits Tax Leaflets	Nos. 1-8 and 10-112
Exchequer Reports (Welsby, Hurlstone & Gordon)	Vols. I-VI, 1847-1851	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Finch's (Sir H.) Reports, Chancery	1673-1680	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Finch's (T.) Precedents in Chancery	1689-1722	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Giffard's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-V, 1858-1865	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Gilbert's Chancery Reports	1706-1726	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Hare's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-XI, 1841-1853	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Hemming & Miller's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-II, 1862-1865	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
House of Lords Cases (Clark)	Vols. I-XI, 1847-1866	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Irish Tax Cases	Vols. 1-3, 1923-1964
Jacob's Chancery Reports	1821-1822	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Jacob & Walker's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-II, 1819-1822	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Johnson's Chancery Reports	1858-1860	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Johnson & Hemming's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-II, 1859-1862	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Jones & La Touche's Irish Chancery Reports	Vols. I-III, 1844-1846	Volume I and Volume II are freely available online via Google Books.
Kay's Vice Chancellors' Reports	1853-1854	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Keen's Rolls Court Reports	Vols. I-II, 1836-1839	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Kelyng's Crown Cases	1660-1669	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Knight's Industrial Reports	1966-1974	Reports from this series from 1974 onwards are available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Latch's King's Bench Reports	1625-1628	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Law Reports: Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Cases	Vols. I-IV, 1865-1875	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Appeal Cases	1875-2006	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Chancery Appeal Cases	1865-1875	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Chancery Division	1875-2006	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Common Pleas Cases	Vols. I-X, 1865-1875	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Common Pleas Division	Vols. I-V, 1875-1880	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Crown Cases Reserved	1865-1875	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Equity Cases	Vols. I-XX, 1865-1875	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Exchequer Cases	Vols. I-X, 1865-1875	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Exchequer Division	Vols. I-V, 1875-1880	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Family Division	1972-2006	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: House of Lords, English and Irish Appeals	Vols. I-VII, 1866-1875	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: House of Lords, Scotch and Divorce Appeals	Vols. I-II, 1866-1875	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: King's/Queen's Bench Division	1875-2006	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Privy Council Appeals	Vols. I-VI, 1865-1875	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Probate and Divorce Cases	Vols. I-III, 1865-1875	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Probate	1891-1971	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Probate, Divorce & Admiralty Division	1875-1890	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Law Reports: Queen's Bench	1865-1875	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Maclean & Robinson's Appeal Cases	1839	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Macnaghten & Gordon's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-III, 1849-1852	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Maddock's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-V, 1815-1822	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Marshall's Common Pleas Reports	Vols. I-II, 1813-1816
Maule & Selwyn's King's Bench Reports	Vols. I-VI, 1813-1817	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Meeson & Welsby's Exchequer Reports	Vols. I-XVI, 1836-1847	The Library also holds an index for this series. Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Megone's Reports of Cases under the Companies Acts	1888-1891
Merivale's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-III, 1815-1817	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Modern Cases in Law and Equity	1721-1726
Moore's King's Bench Cases	1485-1621	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Mosely's Chancery Reports	1726-1730	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Mylne & Craig's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-IV, 1835-1840	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Mylne & Keen's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-III, 1832-1835	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Offshore Service Cases	Vols. 1-7, 1999-2018
Peere-Williams' Chancery & King's Bench Cases	Vols. I-III, 1695-1735	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Phillips' Chancery Reports	Vols. I-II, 1841-1849	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Popham's King's Bench Reports	1592-1627	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Profits Tax: appeals to the High Court, etc.	Nos. 55-58
Report of select cases in Chancery, the King's Bench, etc.	1731-1734
Reports of Restrictive Practices Cases	1960-1973
Revised Reports	Vols. I-CXLIX, 1785-1866	The Library also holds an index-digest of the cases reported in this series.
Russell's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-V, 1823-1829	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Russell & Mylne's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-II, 1829-1833	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Salkeld's King's Bench Reports	Vols. I-III, 1689-1712	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Saunders' King's Bench Reports	Vols. I-II Part II, 1666-1673	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Sausse & Scully's Irish Rolls Court Reports	1837-1840	Freely available online via Google Books.
Schoales & Lefroy's Irish Chancery Reports	1802-1809	Volume I is freely available online via Google Books.
Select Cases in Chancery tempore King	1724-1733	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Session Cases	1933-2003	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Session Notes	1933-1937
Shower's Parliamentary Cases	1691-1697	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Shower's King's Bench Reports	Vols. I-II, 1678-1693	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Simon's Tax Cases	1973-2010	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+. The Library's holdings for this series include cumulative tables and an index volume (1973-2010).
Simon's Tax Cases, Special Commissioners' Decisions	1995 ed. - 2010 ed.	From June 2009 this series was retitled "Simon's First-tier Tax Decisions". Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+. The Library also holds cumulative tables and an index volume for this series (1995-2001).
Simons' Vice Chancellor's Reports	Vols. I-XVII, 1826-1850	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Simons' Vice Chancellor's Reports, New Series	Vols. I-II, 1850-1852	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Simons & Stuart's Vice Chancellor's Reports	Vols. I-II, 1822-1826	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Skinner's King's Bench Reports	1681-1697	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Smale & Giffard's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-III, 1852-1857	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Starkie's Nisi Prius Reports	Vols. I-II, 1814-1819	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Strange's King's Bench Reports	Vols. I-II, 1716-1748	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Swanston's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-III, 1818-1819	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Talbot's Cases in Equity	1730-1737	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Tamlyn's Rolls Court Reports	1829-1830	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Taunton's Common Pleas Reports	Vols. I-VIII, 1807-1819	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Tax Cases	Vols. 1-73, 1875-2001	Full series available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Tax Case Leaflets	Nos. 2252-2549, 2691-3266, 3276-	The cases reported in this series are also consolidated in the Tax Cases (see above).
Taxation Reports	1939-1981
Times Law Reports	Vols. I-III, VI, VII, XIII, XV-XXI, XXIII-XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLII-L, LX-LXV, 1950-1952.
Turner & Russell's Chancery Reports	1822-1824	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Value Added Tax and Duties Tribunals Reports	1973-2000	Before 1995 this series was titled "Value Added Tax Tribunal Reports". Reports published in this series between 1973 and 1993 are available electronically to users in the Library via Lexis+.
Ventris' King's Bench Reports	1668-1685	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Vernon's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-II Part II, 1680-1718	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Vesey Junior's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-XVIII, 1789-1817	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Vesey Senior's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-II, 1746-1755	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Vesey & Beames' Chancery Reports	Vols. I-III, 1812-1814	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
West's Reports, House of Lords	1839-1841	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Willes' Common Pleas Reports	1737-1758	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Wilson's Chancery Reports	1818-1819	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Wilson's King's Bench and Common Pleas Reports	Parts I-III, 1742-1774	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.
Younge & Collyer's Chancery Reports	Vols. I-II, 1841-1844	Reports from this series are collated in the English Reports, which are freely available online via CommonLII.

In addition to the above, the Library holds a number of case law indexes and citators.

Law report series, including those held in the Library collection, are commonly referred to by abbreviated titles. When seeking to decode such abbreviations, the freely accessible Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations is generally a good place to start. More comprehensive listings can be found in books such as the Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations by Donald Raistrick.

For more general guidance on understanding case law citations, see our main case law guide.