Commonwealth Law Reports

Commonwealth Law Reports (CLR)

Selected volumes of the CLRs.
Editors	Paul Vout KC and Peter Willis SC
Country	Australia
Subject	Law Report
Publisher	Lawbook Co., a division of Thomson Reuters
Publication date	April 1903–
Media type	Print / Online

The Commonwealth Law Reports (CLR) (ISSN 0069-7133) are the authorised reports of decisions of the High Court of Australia.^[1] The Commonwealth Law Reports are published by the Lawbook Company, a division of Thomson Reuters. James Merralls AM QC was the editor of the Reports from 1969 until his death in 2016.^[2] The current editors are Paul Vout KC and Peter Willis SC.

Each reported judgment includes a headnote written by an expert reporter (by convention, a practising barrister) which, as an authorised report, has been approved by the High Court. The current reporters are as follows:

• Hannah Canham
• Roshan Chaile
• Ella Delany
• Bora Kaplan
• James McComish
• William Newland
• Jakub Patela
• Alistair Pound SC
• Stephen Puttick
• Daniel Reynolds
• Marcus Roberts
• Alexander Solomon-Bridge
• Ahmed Terzic
• Julia Wang
• Michael Wells
• Jillian Williams
• Radhika Withana

The headnotes include a summary of counsel's legal arguments. The Reports also include tables of cases reported, affirmed, reversed, overruled, applied or judicially commented on and cited.

The Reports are available in PDF format from Westlaw AU.^[3] Scans of the first 100 volumes of the Reports, covering cases from 1903 to 1959, were freely published on the High Court's website and on BarNet JADE as part of the One-100 project.^[4][5]