Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

advance sheets

a softcover pamphlet containing recently reported opinions by a court or set of courts. ( advance sheets are published during the interim between an opinion's announcement and its inclusion in a bound volume of law reports. cf. slip opinion (1) under opinion;report. as a bound volume of any series of reports is not published until sufficient matter has accumulated to fill it necessarily results in the holding of the first decisions rendered after the preceding volume has been lied, until there are enough more to justify the publication of the next volume. even after enough material- been accumulated to ell a volume, there is necessarily considerable time consumed in its printing, indexing, and binding before the book is ready for delivery. hence, it is customary, as soon as a part of the volume has come from the press, to issue such part in pamphlet form; and these paper-bound copies are known as