第7课 case report and citition1.ppt

法律英语 法律英语 Legal English 判例报告 判例报告活动：Law reporting 遵循先例原则的有效运作有赖于有效的判例报告制度。 判例报告结果：判例汇编（case reporter） 官方汇编：official reporter 非官方汇编: unofficial reporter 非官方汇编对法院的判决书作一些编辑整理，如添加主旨(synopis)和题注(headnote)，律师更多利用非官方。 重要的判例汇编： 1 全国判例汇编系统(NRS) (1) 联邦法院判例汇编 Supreme Court Reporter(S.Ct.) Federal Reporter(F.) Federal Supplement(F.Supp.) 联邦补充判例汇编 Federal Appendix(Fed. Appx)(未被报告的上诉法院判决, unpublished opinions) 联邦判例汇编附录 1 全国判例汇编系统(NRS) Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4 Picture 5 Picture 6 Picture 7 2 州法院判例汇编 3 专门联邦法院判例汇编 Federal Rules Decisions 联邦程序规则判决汇编 Bankruptcy Reporter Military Justice Reporter Federal Claims Reporter Veterans Appeals Reporter Law reports or reporters Law reports or reporters are series of books that contain judicial opinions from a selection of case law decided by courts. When a particular judicial opinion is referenced, the law report series in which the opinion is printed will determine the case citation format. The term reporter was originally used to refer to the individual persons who actually compile, edit, and publish such opinions.For example, the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court is the person authorized to publish the Courts cases in the bound volumes(合订本)of the United States Reports. And the term still carries that meaning in all English dialects, but in the U.S. today, reporter additionally denotes the books themselves. In common law countries, court opinions are legally binding under the rule of stare decisis. That rule requires a court to apply a legal principle that was set forth earlier by a court of the same jurisdiction dealing with a similar set of facts. Thus, the regular publication of such opinions is important so that everyone—lawyers, judges, and laymen can all find out what the law is, as declared by judges. Official law reports or reporters are those authorized for publication by statute or other governmental ruling(决定). Governments designate law reports as official to provide an authoritative, consisten