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Council of Law Reporting Act 1969
Competition Policy Review Report - Option 1
Option 1 - The Council of Law Reporting would continue to determine authorised judgments and would control publication arrangements
Reasons given for the maintenance of the status quo include the following:
- The Council ensures a reliable, quality standard of reporting, emanating from a single independent source with accurate and detailed headnotes and verified and consistent citations;
- Costs are kept to a minimum because users, including practitioners and the courts, need only subscribe to one paper publication;
- Publication of one or more rival series of authorised reports would not be commercially viable. The restriction to one publisher means that subscriptions costs are lower than for other law report publications;
- Authorised reports provide an official and historical record and assist the development of the common law through precedent;
- The selection of judgments by the Council means that the judiciary and practitioners do not have to determine the relevance and usefulness of the unreported judgments; and
- Unrestricted publication of judgments would mean a great volume of material with no legal significance may be published.
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