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[{{{year}}}] {{{court}}} {{{num}}}

Used to cite judgments listed in the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) database.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Litigantslitigants

The parties to the litigation

Example
Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service
Stringrequired
Linklink

The name of a Wikipedia article about the case, which will be linked

Example
Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service
Page nameoptional
Courtcourt

The neutral citation code used by BAILII to identify the court that decided the case

Suggested values
UKSC EWCA UKHL ECHR EUECJ EWHC EWCC EWMC EWPCC UKIAT UKPC UKUT UKEAT UKET UKVAT ScotCS ScotHC ScotSC NICA NICC NIHC IECA IECCA IEHC IESC
Example
UKHL
Stringrequired
Divisiondivision

The division of the court (mandatory for some cases - e.g. EWCA Civ)

Suggested values
Civ Crim
Example
Civ
Stringoptional
Yearyear

no description

Stringoptional
Case numbernum

no description

Numberrequired
Formatformat

Needed for some UKPC, Irish, Scottish and ET cases. See template page for details.

Suggested values
1 2 3 4 5
Numberoptional
Reporterreporter

Used for some Scottish cases

Suggested values
R F JC SC
Stringoptional
Volumevolume

Mandatory for some Scottish cases - the volume number

Unknownoptional
scotcasescotcase

Mandatory for Scottish Court of Session cases - IH for Inner House, OH for Outer House

Suggested values
OH IH
Stringoptional
First Pagefirstpage

Mandatory for some Scottish cases: the first page number on which the case appears in a particular law reports series.

Numberoptional
European case numbereucase

Case number for the European Court of Justice.

Example
C-46/93
Stringoptional
Pinpointpinpoint

The page or paragraph number at which information or a quotation you are referring to appears. When referring to a range of pages or paragraph numbers, separate the starting and ending numbers with an en dash.

Example
528–530
Stringoptional
Paragraph citedpara

A paragraph number. For a range, use the paras parameter.

Example
113
Numberoptional
Paragraphs citedparas

A range of paragraph numbers cited - use an en dash to separate the numbers.

Example
113–129
Unknownoptional
Parallel citeparallelcite

Parallel citations to the case. Separate the citations with commas.

Example
[1985] AC 374, [1984] 3 All ER 935
Stringoptional
Court Namecourtname

The court that decided the case, which may be wikilinked. Use 'auto' to have it automatically set. For Privy Council decisions, to indicate the jurisdiction from which the case was appealed, use the juris parameter together with 'auto'.

Suggested values
auto
Contentoptional
Datedate

The date that the case was decided. You may enter the date in any format accepted by the 'date' template.

Dateoptional
Jurisdictionjuris

The jurisdiction that decided the case. For Privy Council decisions, it can be combined with courtname=auto to get "on appeal from".

Suggested values
England and Wales Scotland Northern Ireland Ireland
Stringoptional
Refref

The 'ref' parameter from CS1, which can be used with 'sfn' etc.

Stringoptional