[jasonjei]

I’ve noticed in many commonwealth countries there is no official codification of case law, administrative law, and statutory law passed by the legislative body and receiving assent from the executive branch.

The US being a hard fork of the commonwealth has the official US code and state codes—attempts to organize impacts of case law, admin law, passed law, etc—but Canada has pockets of codification (the Criminal Code), but not all acts of Parliament are organized in a single code. The UK as far as I can tell has no such thing in England or Wales. Hong Kong has some semblance of codification with the Basic Law and ordinances. Does Australia have codification at a federal or state level?

[dragonwriter]

> The US has the US code and state codes—it attempts to organize impacts of case law, admin law, passed law, etc

Um, yes and no.

“US Code” is statute law. The “Code of Federal Regulations" is admin law. There is no codification of case law; there are reporters, but they are just a flow of case results, similar to the sequential publication of statutes in places that don't codify statute law (and those that do, too, but for most purposes where they do the codification is more generally useful for most purposes.)

The states are generally similar: there is codification of statute and admin law, but not of case law.

[jasonjei]

Got it. I was just wondering if other commonwealth countries had an equivalent of a US code or Code of Federal Regulations that documented law in a centralized store. IANAL, but law seems to have so many distinct sources—and more curiously, does codification help a lawyer with the job?