SCLR Publications:

• Session Cases Hardcopy
• Session Cases Online
• Macfadyen Lectures

Session Cases Hard Copy

• The Scottish Council of Law Reporting’s major publication is its law report series, Session Cases.
• The Session Cases law report series contains all the key appellate decisions, civil and criminal, from the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary in Scotland together with selected cases decided at first instance.
• Also included in Session Cases are all decisions, as issued, on Scottish appeals to the House of Lords and to the Privy Council. All judgments are reported in full
• The judges who gave opinions (judgments) in each case have the opportunity to review the report before it is published – this gives Session Cases its unsurpassed authority in Scottish courts.

Session Cases take precedence over all other law report series in Scotland.

• All cases are reported under headnotes and rubrics, providing the user with an easily absorbed guide to the subjects, the facts and the grounds for the decision.
• A useful feature is the summary of the arguments presented to the court.

Session Cases are published in hard copy by the Council in five paperbound parts and a casebound sixth part which is the year’s bound volume. This sixth part consolidates all the material published in the earlier paper parts together with additional material. The casebound part is sent automatically to all subscribers as part of their subscription. Orders for subscriptions should be sent to:

Back bound volumes of Session Cases® from the 1995 volume to that for 2009 are available and may be ordered from Marston Book Services. All the volumes are priced at £50 with the exception of the 2009 volume which is priced at £275. One volume was published in each year with the exception of 2005 when a second volume for the year, containing the landmark tobacco litigation judgement in McTear v Imperial Tobacco Ltd, was published.