Printing

Printing from the Document screen
Printing part of a document
Printing whole Acts and Measures
Printing from the Results screen
Printing the Help files

You can print any document from any database in the Justis service. Printouts of case reports from Justis are admissible in courts in the United Kingdom, according to Practice Direction (Judgments: Form and Citation). Some series of case reports, including The Law Reports, The Weekly Law Reports, Industrial Cases Reports, English Reports and Session Cases, now include links to exact facsimiles of the original documents, and some people prefer these PDF documents. For other series of case reports, it is possible to improve the appearance of printouts by making appropriate adjustments to the Page Setup.

Printing from the Document screen

When you are viewing the current document on the Document screen, clicking the “Print” button in the Document Actions panel gives you the choice of printing the whole document, or selected fields, or selected pages.

Document Actions panel

Make your selection, and then click the “Print” button to start printing your document. You may need to click “Next” or “OK” in another dialog box to start printing.

Print dialog box

If you click the “Selected fields” link, you will see the following table of fields. Click in a check box to put a tick against the fields that you wish to print. Click again to remove a tick. Click “OK” to use the fields you have chosen, or click “Cancel” to abandon any changes you have just made.

Selecting fields to print

Printing part of a document

The options described above allow you to print certain pages or fields, but it is also possible to print just a portion of text that you have selected with your mouse.

If you are using Windows, then after selecting the text that you want to print, hold down the Control key on your keyboard and press the P key. In the dialog box that appears, click “Selection” and then click the OK button.

Printing selected text

Macintosh users should press the Command (or Apple) key, not the Control key.

Please note that the “Selection” option may not be available for all printers; this facility is provided by the manufacturer of the printer.

Printing whole Acts and Measures

While you are viewing a single section or schedule of an Act or Measure from the UK Statutes database on the Document screen, click the blue “Outline” button and then click the “View whole act” link. When the complete Act is displayed, click the “Print” button.

Display and print a complete Act

Printing from the Results screen

When you are viewing a list of documents on the Results screen, clicking the “Print” button gives you the choice of either printing lists of documents or printing whole documents.

Printing results

Print Results dialog box

The option for “Selected documents” refers to those documents with a tick in their check box. Make your selection, and then click the “Print” button to start printing. You may need to click “Next” or click “OK” or press the Control+P key combination to start printing.

You can only print complete documents from the Results screen; if you want to select pages or fields, please display the document on the Document screen and then click the Print button.

Printing the Help files

There is a Print button at the end of each Help screen, which should work on all browsers that are suitable for accessing the Justis database.

For Windows users, holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and then pressing the P key may allow you to print a Help topic if the button does not work.

For Macintosh users, holding down the Command (or Apple) key on your keyboard and then pressing the P key may allow you to print a Help topic if the button does not work.