Oxford LibGuides: Case law: e-resources for common law countries: Privy Council

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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

The JCPC "is the highest court of appeal for many current and former Commonwealth countries, as well as the United Kingdom’s overseas territories, crown dependencies, and military sovereign base areas.

It also hears very occasional appeals from a number of ancient and ecclesiastical courts. These include the Church Commissioners, the Arches Court of Canterbury, the Chancery Court of York, prize courts and the Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports."

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

AC series of The Law Reports (ICLR) include reports of cases from the PC. Holders of an Oxford SSO can access this series via both LexisLibrary and Westlaw UK.

Transcripts of decisions are available on the free web see links below:

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 2009 onwards
Official website. Transcripts of decided cases from 31 July 2009 onwards. Free access to earlier decisions available via BAILII see link below.
BAILII: Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1809-
Free resource. From 1809 onwards, but only complete from 1996 onwards. Prior to that it has "selected historical decisions." Case papers from the IALS collection from 1930 -1985 (effectively a full paper set from 1950 to 1985) and some selected papers from earlier judgments of special interest to researchers have been included in the project. The digitised papers (case for the appellant, case for the respondent, record of proceedings, factums and appendices) are available as searchable PDF files alongside the judgment texts
Privy Council Papers Online
This website presents the first digital catalogue of the ‘Printed Papers’ of Appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), which was the final court of appeal for the British empire and later, for several countries of the Commonwealth. The ‘Printed Papers in appeal’ are detailed ‘case-records’ associated with appeal cases heard by the JCPC, which supplement the judgements. This catalogue contains key details for 9,368 cases, decided between 1792-1998, links to full-text judgements from BAILII where available, and the full text Printed Papers for 6 cases.