Criminal Appeal Reports

Criminal Appeal Reports

Discipline	Criminal law of England and Wales
Language	English
Edited by	Clare Barsby
Publication details
History	1909-present
Publisher	Sweet & Maxwell  (England and Wales)
Frequency	10 issues per annum
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Cr App R
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	0070-1521
OCLC  no.	2617568
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The Criminal Appeal Reports are a series of law reports ^[1] of decisions of the Court of Criminal Appeal, the criminal division of the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords ^[2] from 15 May 1908 onwards. ^{[3] [4]}

They are published by Sweet & Maxwell. ^{[5] [6]} Publication began in 1909 and have been edited by Daniel Janner since 1994. ^{[7] [8] [9]} As of 2008, they were published ten times per year. ^[10]

For the purpose of citation, their name may be abbreviated to "Cr App R", or to "CAR". ^[11]

Glanville Williams criticised the layout of the index in each volume of these reports. ^[12]

Volume 1 contains, in addition to the reports, a copy of the Criminal Appeal Act 1907, sections 9(5) and (6) of the Costs in Criminal Cases Act 1908, the Criminal Appeal (Amendment) Act 1908, section 11 of the Prevention of Crime Act 1908 and section 99(6) of the Children Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 67). ^[13]

See also

• Criminal Appeal Reports (Sentencing)
• Bibliography of English criminal law

References

1. Williams, G.L., (1982). "Learning the Law", 11th Ed., London : Stevens, ISBN   0-420-46290-2, p. 40
2. David P. Derham, Francis Kevin Heathcote Maher, Peter Louis Waller. An Introduction to Law. Fifth Edition. The Law Book Company Limited. 1986. Page 234.
3. The Canadian Bar Review: Revue du Barreau Canadien. Canadian Bar Association. 1923. Volume 1. Page 583. (Gives the date as May 1908).
4. Herman Cohen (Editor). The Criminal Appeal Reports with subject index, tables of cases and statutes cited, and the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, and amending and extending Acts: Volume I. Stevens and Haynes. Bell Yard, Temple Bar, London. 1909. Page 3. (The first case reported, R v Williamson, is dated 15 May 1908).
5. James Willing. Willing's Press Guide. Willing Service. 1996. Page 360.
6. Practitioners Law Library 1978: Books for the Professions: Sweet & Maxwell Stevens. Published by Taylor & Francis. Page 37.
7. "No8 Chambers".
8. Enid Mona Campbell, Poh York Lee, Joycey G. Tooher. Legal Research: Materials and Methods. Fourth Edition. LBC Information Services. 1996. Page 147.
9. The Criminal Appeal Reports. Sweet & Maxwell. 1909. Volume 1.
10. Advanced Criminal Litigation in Practice. Oxford University Press. 2008. Page 3.
11. Williams, G.L., (1982). "Learning the Law", 11th Ed., London : Stevens, ISBN   0-420-46290-2, p. 40
12. Williams, G.L., (1982). "Learning the Law", 11th Ed., London : Stevens, ISBN   0-420-46290-2, p. 42
13. Herman Cohen (Editor). The Criminal Appeal Reports with subject index, tables of cases and statutes cited, and the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, and amending and extending Acts: Volume I. Stevens and Haynes. Bell Yard, Temple Bar, London. 1909. Pages xi to xxx.

External links

• "Criminal Appeal Reports". Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations. Cardiff University.