What each thing you'll see is
A short guide to every kind of source an answer can cite.
Published by Ask The Beagle
Our explanation
Every answer in Ask The Beagle cites its sources. Here is what each kind of source is, and why it is worth showing:
- Acts and statutory instrumentsActs of Parliament and the regulations made under them: the law's own text.
- Constitutional documentsThe foundational documents that set how the UK is governed.
- TreatiesInternational agreements the UK has joined, like the ECHR.
- Legal principlesThe long-standing ideas courts read legislation through.
- Legal maximsCenturies-old Latin phrases courts still quote.
- HansardWhat was said in Parliament while a law was being debated.
- Explanatory notesThe government's plain-language companion to an Act.
- Regulator guidanceHow the regulator says it applies the rules it enforces.
- Case lawCourt judgments on what legislation means (not currently shown).