Law Reports, Magazines and References to Case Laws Law Reports Law Magazines Explanation of citations

Your senior says, “Bring me Kesavananda, SCC, fourth volume.” You nod, and then stand in the library staring at four thousand books. A judgment is only useful if another lawyer can find the exact page where it sits. So Indian law has built a small code of letters and numbers — AIR, SCC, Bom LR — that points to a single page in a single volume. Can you read that code, and can you use it to find a case in under five minutes?

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A law report is a published, edited record of a court’s judgment; a citation is the short address (year, volume, reporter, first page) that lets anyone locate it again.

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