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The new “Pending Actions” feature on Lawtel allows users to track an action from the initial stages, right through to a High Court decision.
Pending Actions tracks all documents submitted to the High Court before a hearing date is fixed, enabling you to follow proceedings from start to finish, and make decisions based on actions submitted to the court. For example, you can flag up important cases at the earliest stage, or, see if an action has been settled out of court.
According to Lawtel “Pending Actions is the only place you can search and track an action before it goes to court”
Where do I find Pending Actions on Lawtel?
After you have logged in to Lawtel, you’ll find the Pending Actions search page under the Cases tab on the main homepage.
The internet edition of “The Lawyer” now features a weekly “Bad Law Blog“, written by Allen Green. Green likens this new blog to Ben Goldacre’s “Bad Science” newspaper column in The Guardian, though about legal issues rather than science issues.
The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) is the publisher of the official and most authoritative law reports in the UK.
Watch their YouTube video, “Find that case!” which features several College of Law students.
The training covers:
Searching by party names
Searching by subject matter
Using a paper index
Online legal databases
Cases & statutes judicially considered
Also discussed is the consequence of providing a “bad case” during your training …
Around 2% of cases make it to a law report. Reported cases are those which raise a point of legal significance. However, due to unreported cases & transcripts being commonly available, please see the reminder below:
1) A “law report” = the case reported in an edited publication which reports cases, with editorial comments/ headnotes etc. e.g. The All England Law Reports, Lloyds Law Reports, Building Law Reports.
2) A “case summary” = literally, a summary produced by a legal publisher
3) “official transcript” = “raw text” of what was said in court. These are un-edited transcripts.
4) “judgment” = the ruling as approved by the judge
What you seek will depend on your research.
To illustrate how the path to a judgment can be a lengthy one, barristers acting on BSkyB’s £700m claim against IT supplier EDS have criticised presiding judge Mr Justice Ramsey for not yet handing down his judgment despite the case ending more than a year ago.
BSkyB’s £700m claim against IT supplier EDS still no judgment
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