Series
Supreme Court: Judgments
Catalogue reference: UKSC 2
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UKSC 2
This series contains judgments from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Judgments are formal legal decisions written and handed down (issued) by judges at the conclusion of cases. They typically include significant detail about the facts of...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- UKSC 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Supreme Court: Judgments
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Date (When the record was created)
- From 2021
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains judgments from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Judgments are formal legal decisions written and handed down (issued) by judges at the conclusion of cases. They typically include significant detail about the facts of the cases and the reasons for the decisions reached.
As of 2022, judgments are typically created as Microsoft Word documents. These are transformed into the XML format LegalDocML for publication online. For a small proportion of judgments, supporting documents, such as orders or press summaries, also exist.
Published judgments are available at caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- UKSC
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, 2009-2009
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- digital record(s)
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
- Published judgments are made available by the direction of the judges who handed them down. They can be used under the terms and conditions of the Open Justice Licence.
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2021 British and Irish Legal Information Institute
From 2022 Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- From Spring 2022 onwards, judges' clerks have transferred judgments directly to The National Archives in digital form. A set of earlier judgments was supplied by BAILII in Autumn 2021; this included both judgments supplied directly to BAILII by the court and judgments obtained from other sources.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- The National Archives receives and publishes judgments on an ongoing basis.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- All judgments (and, where applicable, supporting documents) transferred to The National Archives are selected for permanent preservation.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Publication of court judgments has long been standard practice in line with the principles of open justice. The individual judges who hand down judgments have the right to determine whether the judgment text should be published.
By the early 21st century, judgments intended for publication were circulated to legal publishers by email. The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII), founded in 2000, became one of the largest and most popular sources of freely-available case law information.
In June 2021, the Ministry of Justice made a policy announcement that The National Archives was to store, preserve and publish court judgments and tribunal decisions for England and Wales. An Alpha version of the publication service was launched in April 2022.
The Open Justice Licence was created in 2022 to support the re-use of information from published case law.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17670680/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: UKSC
Records of The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
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Supreme Court: Judgments