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Telling Legal Backstories: Making Historic Case Papers from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Available to All Online

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2016

Steven Whittle
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Abstract

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies holds copies of case papers of appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC). Steven Whittle describes the recent open access initiative at the IALS, working with BAILII to provide online access to historic case papers of appeals from over 35 countries from the period 1935 to 1985. These are cases of the highest importance in the legal development of each of the countries and to the development of common law shared by many countries worldwide.

Keywords

Judicial Committee of the Privy Councilappealscase papersdigitisationfree legal informationlegal researchlegal sourcesopen accessCommonwealth
Type
Current Issues
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 34 - 39
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

1 Correspondence and papers of Sir David Hughes Parry (Director 1847–1959) IALS archive http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/archives/ials.htm  IALS/02/01/02.

2 Correspondence and papers of Sir David Hughes Parry (Director 1847–1959) IALS archive http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/archives/ials.htm IALS/02/01/04.

3 For examples, see Magnusson, Denis N. (Spring 2004) “Hell hath no fury: Copyright Lawyers’ lessons from Deeks v.Wells” Queen's Law Journal 29 and Mckillop, Brian (2011) The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the mystery of the purloined past. Random House LLC ISBN 978-1-55199-621-9.

4 See Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) http://www.falm.info/and Declaration on Free Access to Law http://www.falm.info/declaration/ (Accessed  4/1/2016).

5 Hollingworth and Moss Ltd,  http://www.hollingworthmoss.co.uk/; RDW Digital http://www.rdw.co.uk/heritage-scanning-digitisation/ ; Max Communications http://maxcommunications.co.uk/ (All accessed 4/1/2016).

6 MacMillan, Catharine (Autumn 2015)  “Canadian Cases before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council” http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/pcdocs/docs/Canadian_Constitutional_Cases_Comment.pdf (Accessed 4/1/2016).

7 JCPC Symposium planned for Friday 13th May 2016 at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS).

8 Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII)  http://www.commonlii.org/ (Accessed 4/1/2016).

9 LLMC Digital http://www.llmc.com/ (Accessed 4/1/2016).