The, the official reporter of theLaw reports or reporters are series of books that contain from a selection of decided. When a particular judicial opinion is referenced, the law report series in which the opinion is printed will determine the format.In the United States, the term reporter was originally used to refer to the individual persons who actually compile, edit, and publish such opinions. For example, the is the person authorized to publish the Court's cases in the bound volumes of the. In, reporter also denotes the books themselves. In the, these are described by the plural term law reports, the title that usually appears on the covers of the periodical parts and the individual volumes.In countries, court opinions are legally binding under the rule of.
That rule requires a court to apply a legal principle that was set forth earlier by a court of a superior (sometimes, the same) jurisdiction dealing with a similar set of facts. Thus, the regular publication of such opinions is important so that everyone—, and laymen can all find out what the law is, as declared by judges. Contents.Official and unofficial case law reporting Official law reports or reporters are those authorized for publication by or other governmental ruling. Governments designate law reports as official to provide an authoritative, consistent, and authentic statement of a jurisdiction's.
Be able to report all of the major funds in one column on the respective fund financial statements. Evaluate each year which funds are major and which funds are considered to be nonmajor except the General Fund which is always considered a major fund. The IRS lists several circumstances in which a settlement must be reported as income: compensation for lost wages or profits; punitive damages; pension settlements; damages for breach of contract; patent infringement; damages for interference with business operations; and back pay.
Official case law publishing may be carried out by a government agency, or by a commercial entity. Unofficial law reports, on the other hand, are not officially sanctioned and are published as a commercial enterprise.
In and (see below), official reports are called authorised reports - unofficial are referred to as unauthorised reports.For the publishers of unofficial reports to maintain a over the official ones, unofficial reports usually provide helpful research aids (e.g., summaries, indexes), like the editorial enhancements used in the. Some commercial publishers also provide court opinions in that are part of larger fee-based, online systems, such as, or Justis.Unofficially published court opinions are also often published before the official opinions, so and must cite the unofficial report until the case comes out in the official report. But once a court opinion is officially published, rules usually require a person to cite to the official reports.Contents of a good law report. The headnote from the leading English case Wilkinson v. Downton 1897 2 QB 57.A good printed law report in traditional form usually contains the following items:.
The citation reference. The name of the case (usually the parties' names). Catchwords (for information retrieval purposes).
The (a brief summary of the case, the holding, and any significant case law considered). However, a headnote is not part of the decision rendered. Headnotes occasionally contain misinterpretations of the law in judgments of lower courts, and are not regarded as part of an official judgment or precedent. A recital of the facts of the case (unless appearing in the judgment).
A note of the arguments of counsel before the judge. (This is often omitted in modern reports.). The judgment (a verbatim transcript of the words used by the judge to explain his or her reasoning).Open publication on the Internet The development of the created the opportunity for courts to publish their decisions on. This is a relatively low cost publication method compared to paper and makes court decisions more easily available to the public (particularly important in countries where court decisions are major ). Because a court can post a decision on a Web site as soon as it is rendered, the need for a quickly printed case in an unofficial, commercial report becomes less crucial.
However, the very ease of internet publication has raised new concerns about the ease with which internet-published decisions can be modified after publication, creating uncertainty about the validity of internet opinions.Decisions of courts from all over the world can now be found through the Web site, and the sites of its member organizations. These projects have been strongly encouraged by the.Many and academics have commented on the changing system of legal information delivery brought about by the rapid growth of the. Writes that the 'primacy of the old paper sets print law reports is fading, and a vortex of conflicting claims and products is spinning into place'. In theory, posted on the Web expand access to the beyond the specialized collections used primarily.
The general public can more readily find court opinions online, whether posted on Web-accessible (such as the public access site, above), or through general Web.Questions remain, however, on the need for a uniform and practical for cases posted on the Web (versus the standard volume and page number used for print law reports). Furthermore, turning away from the traditional 'official-commercial' print report model raises questions about the accuracy, authority, and reliability of case law found on the Web. The answer to these questions will be determined, in large part, through changing government, and by the degree of influence exerted by commercial database providers on global legal.Design and cultural references Reports usually come in the form of sturdy hardcover books with most of the design elements on the (the part that a lawyer would be most interested in when searching for a case). The volume number is usually printed in large type to make it easy to spot. Is traditionally used on the spine for the name of the report and for some decorative lines and bars.In lawyer and, the rows of books visible behind the lawyer are usually reports.History and case reporting (by country) Canada Each in has an official reporter series that publishes and decisions of the respective province.
The federal courts, such as the, and, each have their own reporter series. The has its own Reporter series, the.There are also general reporters, such as the long-running Dominion Law Reports, that publishes cases of national significance.United Kingdom Supreme Court of the United Kingdom The publishes on its own website the court's judgments after they have been handed down, together with the summary (or 'headnote'). England and Wales. A few volumes of the English Reports at aIn and, beginning with the reports of cases contained in the ( to ) there are various sets of reports of cases decided in the higher English courts down to the present time. Until the nineteenth century, both the quality of early reports, and the extent to which the judge explained the facts of the case and his judgment, are highly variable, and the weight of the precedent may depend on the reputations of both the judge and the reporter. Such reports are now largely of academic interest, having been overtaken by statutes and later developments, but binding precedents can still be found, often most cogently expressed.In 1865, the nonprofit (ICLR) for England and Wales was founded, and it has gradually become the dominant publisher of reports in the.
It has compiled most of the best available copies of pre-1866 cases into the. Post-1865 cases are contained in the ICLR's own. Even today, the UK government does not publish an official report, but its courts have promulgated rules stating that the ICLR reports must be cited when available.
Historical practice, which may still apply where no other report is available, permitted parties to rely on any report 'with the name of a barrister annexed to it.' English maritime law While maritime cases often have a contract or tort element and are reported in the standard volumes, the standard source for maritime cases is the Lloyd's Law Reports, which covers matters including such as, and.Scotland The report cases heard in the Court of Session and cases heard on appeal in the. The report from the.
Those two series are the most authoritative and are cited in court in preference to other report series, such as the, which reports and lands tribunal cases in addition to the higher courts. The law reports service of is supplemented by other reports such as the Scottish Civil Case Reports and Green's Weekly Digest.United States. The, a part of West's National Reporter SystemIn each of the, there are published reports of all cases decided by the courts having appellate jurisdiction going back to the date of their organization. There are also complete reports of the cases decided in the and the inferior having since their creation under the. The early reporters were unofficial as they were published solely by private entrepreneurs, but in the middle of the 19th century, the U.S. Supreme Court and many began publishing their own official reporters.In the 1880s, the started its (NRS), which is a family of regional reporters, each of which collects select state court opinions from a specific group of states. The National Reporter System is now the dominant unofficial reporter system in the U.S., and some smaller states have discontinued their own official reporters and certified the appropriate West regional reporter as their official reporter.
West and its rival, both publish unofficial reporters of U.S. Supreme Court opinions. West also publishes the to help lawyers find cases in its reporters.
West digests and reporters have always featured a 'Key Numbering System' with a unique number for every conceivable legal topic. Map of the U.S., showing areas covered by the Thomson West National Reporter System state law reports.The does not publish an official reporter for the federal courts at the circuit and district levels (the sole exception is the ). However, just as the UK government uses the ICLR reporters by default, the U.S. Courts use the unofficial West federal reporters for cases after 1880, which are the (for courts of appeals) and the (for district courts).
Both the Federal Reporter and the Federal Supplement are part of the NRS and include marked with West key numbers. For cases prior to 1880, U.S. West's NRS also includes several unofficial state-specific reporters for large states like. The NRS now numbers well over 10,000 volumes; therefore, only the largest law libraries maintain a full hard copy set in their on-site collections.Some government agencies use (and require attorneys and agents practicing before them to cite to) certain unofficial reporters that specialize in the types of cases likely to be material to matters before the agency. For example, for both patent and trademark practice, the requires citation to the (USPQ).Today, both Westlaw and LexisNexis also publish a variety of official and unofficial reporters covering the decisions of many federal and state administrative agencies which possess powers. A recent trend in American states is for to join a called.
Casemaker gives members of a state access to a computerized system.Publications., Study of Cases (second edition, Boston, 1894). C. Soule, Lawyers' Reference Manual of Law Books and Citations (Boston, 1884). Stephen Elias and Susan Levinkind, Legal Research: How To Find And Understand The Law (Berkeley: Nolo Press, 2004)Australia.
Volumes of the Commonwealth Law ReportsThe are the authorised reports of decision of the. The are the authorised reports of decisions of the (including the Full Court). Each has a series of authorised reports, e.g.
The Victorian Reports, of decisions of the superior courts of the state or territory.The are the largest series of unauthorised reports although there are several others general reports and reports relating to specific areas of the law, e.g. The Australian Torts Reports publish decisions from any state or federal court relating to. The are published by the and cover the. The are published by Little William Bourke on behalf of the and cover the.New Zealand.
Main article:The New Zealand Law Reports (NZLR) are the authorised reports of the and have been published continuously since 1883. The reports publish cases of significance from the,. The reports, which were initially sorted by volume, are sorted by year.
Three volumes per year are now published, with the number of volumes having increased over time from one, to two and now to three. The reports do not focus on any particular area of law, with subject specific reports filling this niche. There are approximately 20 privately published report series focusing on specialist areas of law. Some areas are covered by more than one report series - such as employment, tax and family law.Ireland Most Irish law reports are contained in The Irish Reports (IR), published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for Ireland. Other reports are contained in the Irish Law Reports Monthly (ILRM) and various online collections of court decisions.Bangladesh In Bangladesh, the law reports are published according to the provisions of the Law Reports Act, 1875. There are many law reports now in Bangladesh.Published monthly,the Apex Law Reports (ALR) provides timely treatment of significant developments in law through articles contributed by judges, leading scholars and practitioners.The Law Messenger is an internationally standard law report which started publication in 2016. It is the first law journal in Bangladesh which specifically publishes law decisions of Supreme Court of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan only.
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Mainstream Law Reports (MLR) is the most-cited law journal and it ranks among the country's most-cited law reviews of any kind. Published monthly, the MLR provides timely treatment of significant developments in law through articles contributed by judges, leading scholars and practitioners. Another popular law report is the Dhaka Law Reports, which started publication in 1948. Bangladesh Legal Decisions is published under the authority of the Bangladesh Bar Council. The other law reports include Bangladesh Law Chronicles, Law Guardian, Bangladesh Law Times.The online law report in Bangladesh is Chancery Law Chronicles, which now publishes verdicts of Supreme Court of Bangladesh.After the Supreme Court of Bangladesh was established in 1972, its online law report is Supreme Court Online Bulletin and it initially published a law report, containing the judgments, orders and decisions of the Court. The decisions of the lower judiciary were not reported in any law report.India.
An issue of the Indian Supreme Court Law ReporterThe Supreme Court Reports (SCR) is the official reporter for Supreme Court decisions. In addition, some private reporters have been authorised to publish the Court's decisions. Pakistan Pakistan inherited a common law system upon independence from Great Britain in 1947, and thus its legal system relies heavily on law reports.The most comprehensive law book is the 'Pakistan Law Decisions' (PLD), which contains judgments from the, the various provincial High Courts, the Service, Professional and Election Tribunals as well as the superior courts of territories such as Azad Kashmir.
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Contents.Notable cases was successfully prosecuted for tax evasion. Additionally, Soviet spy, who had earned more than $2 million cash for his, was also charged with tax evasion as none of the Soviet money was reported on his tax returns.
Ames attempted to have the tax evasion charge dismissed on the grounds his espionage profits were illegal, but the charges stood.5th Amendment The has ruled that requiring a person to declare income on a federal income tax return does not violate an individual's, although the privilege may apply to allow the person to refrain from revealing the source of the income. Income In, the Supreme Court held that an embezzler was required to include his ill-gotten gains in his 'gross income' for Federal income tax purposes. In reaching this decision, the Court looked to the seminal case setting forth the tax code's definition of gross income, in which the Supreme Court held that a taxpayer has gross income when he has 'an accession to wealth, clearly realized, and over which the taxpayers have complete dominion'.
At the time the embezzler acquired the funds, he did not have a consensual obligation to repay, or any restriction as to his disposition of the funds. If he had acquired the funds under the same circumstances legally, there would have been no question as to whether he should have gross income.
Therefore, the embezzler had gross income under the tax code, even though the application of another body of law would later force him to return the money.Deductible expenses in illegal activity – the general rule While embezzlers, thieves, and the like are forced to report their ill-gotten gains as income for tax purposes, they may also take deductions for costs relating to criminal activity. For example, in Commissioner v.
Tellier, a taxpayer was found guilty of engaging in business activities that violated the. The taxpayer subsequently tried to deduct from his gross income the legal fees he spent while defending himself. Supreme Court held that the taxpayer was allowed to deduct the legal fees from his gross income because they meet the requirements of §162(a), which allows the taxpayer to deduct all the 'ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on a trade or business.' The Court reasoned (and the Internal Revenue Service did not contest the point) that it was ordinary and necessary for a person engaged in a business to expect to have legal fees associated with that business, even though such things may only happen once in a lifetime. Therefore, the taxpayer in Tellier was allowed to deduct his legal fees from his gross income, even though he incurred the fees because of his crime.
Supreme Court in Tellier reiterated that the purpose of the tax code was to tax net income, not punish unlawful behavior. The Court suggested that if this was not the case, Congress would change the tax code to include special tax rules for illegal conduct. Expenses that are not deductible Deductions relating to unlawful conduct may be disallowed when to allow them would sharply frustrate a national or state policy prohibiting such conduct.Congress may impose specific provisions that prohibit deductions in connection with illegal activity or other violations of law. No deduction is allowed for fines or similar penalties paid to a government for the violation of any law.Internal Revenue Code section 280E specifically denies a deduction or credit for any expense in a business consisting of trafficking in illegal drugs 'prohibited by Federal law or the law of any State in which such trade or business is conducted.' Similarly, no business deduction is allowed 'for any payment made, directly or indirectly, to an official or employee of any government. if the payment constitutes an illegal bribe or kickback or, if the payment is to an official or employee of a foreign government, the payment is unlawful under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977.' Similarly, tax deductions and credits are denied where for illegal bribes, illegal, or other illegal payments under any Federal law, or under a State if such State law is generally enforced, if the law 'subjects the payor to a criminal penalty or the loss of license or privilege to engage in a trade or business.'
No deduction is allowed for kickbacks, rebates, or bribes made by those who furnish items or services for which payment may be made under the Social Security Act. Medical marijuana: Treatment of deductions for expenses in business legalized under state laws Recently , the provisions of Internal Revenue Code section 280E are being applied by the (IRS) to businesses operating in the industry. Section 280E provides:No deduction or credit shall be allowed for any amount paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or business if such trade or business (or the activities which comprise such trade or business) consists of trafficking in controlled substances (within the meaning of schedule I and II of the Controlled Substances Act) which is prohibited by Federal law or the law of any State in which such trade or business is conducted.A person with income from selling a Schedule I substance is allowed to take a tax deduction for the but not any other tax deductions. Unlike for other business activities, tax deductions are not allowed for ordinary and necessary business expenses such as rent, utilities, and advertising.Even though (with now allowing marijuana to be consumed without a doctor recommendation), the IRS is applying section 280E to deny business deductions. Businesses operating legally under state law argue that section 280E should not be applied because Congress did not intend the law to apply to businesses that are legal under state law.
The IRS asserts that it was the intent of Congress to apply the provision to anyone 'trafficking' in a controlled substance, as defined under federal law (as stated in the text of the statute). Thus, section 280E is at the center of the conflict between federal and state laws with respect to medical marijuana.Such is so even when the marijuana is medical marijuana recommended by a physician as appropriate to benefit the health of the user, as explained by the United States Tax Court in Californians Helping to Alleviate Med. Problems, Inc. Commissioner ('CHAMP').
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