Template:Cite BAILII

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Usage

This template is used to cite judgments listed in the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) database. You should look up the case you wish to cite on BAILII, then refer to the URL of the web page on which the case appears to fill in the information required by the template.

Template

General

{{cite BAILII
|litigants    = 
|link         = 
|court        = 
|division     = 
|year         = 
|num          = 
|para         = 
|eucase       = 
|parallelcite = 
|date         = 
|courtname    = 
|juris        =
|ref          = 
}}

or

{{cite BAILII|litigants=|link=|court=|division=|year=|num=|para=|eucase=|parallelcite=|date=|courtname=|juris=|ref=}}

Privy Council cases before May 1996

The URL (web address) format used in BAILII for decisions of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council up to December 1995 is in the form "http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/[year]/[year]_[num].html". From May 1996 onwards URLs are in the standard form "http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/[year]/[num].html". Between January and April 1996, a mixture of these two URL formats is used.

To specify that a Privy Council case uses the older "http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/[year]/[year]_[num].html" format, add the parameter "|format=1".

Irish cases

The URL format for Irish cases changed midway through 2005 and again, twice, in 2019. For other years the correct format is automatically used, but for those two years the |format= parameter is required, with a number between 1 and 4 as follows:

Format of last URL component for various `|format=` values
value	format	examples
`\|format=1`	[num]	https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IESC/2005/10.html https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IECCA/2005/4.html
`\|format=2`	C[num] Where C is a one- or two-letter abbreviation of [court]	https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2005/H1.html https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IECA/2019/CA11.html
`\|format=3`	[year]_[court]_[num]	https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IESC/2019/2019_IESC_82.html https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2019/2019_IEHC_782.html
`\|format=4`	[year][court][num]	https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IESC/2019/2019IESC92.html https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IECA/2019/2019IECA332.html

Scottish cases

Several different URL formats are used in BAILII for Scottish cases. Use this template to link to Scottish cases as follows:

Reported in Rettie, Crawford and Melville's Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Court of Justiciary and House of Lords, from July 20, 1873, to August 7, 1874 [from July 27, 1897, to July 20, 1898] ... (4th Series) (1873–1898): type "|reporter=R". You must also use |year=, |volume= and |firstpage=.
Reported in Fraser's Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Court of Justiciary and House of Lords (5th Series) (1898–1906): type "|reporter=F". You must also use |year=, |volume= and |firstpage=.
Reported in Cases Decided in the Court of Session, and also in the Court of Justiciary and House of Lords (also known as Session Cases, from 1907): if the URL is in the form "http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/[year]/[year]_SC_[num].html", type "|reporter=SC". You must also use |year=, |firstpage= and |num=.
Reported in Justiciary Cases (from 1917): type "|reporter=JC". You must also use |year=, |volume= and |firstpage=.
High Court of Justiciary and Session Court cases in the URL formats indicated below:
- If the URL is in the form "http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/[year]/[CSIH, CSOH or HCJAC]_[num].html", type "|format=1".
- If the URL is in the form "http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/[year]/[year][CSIH, CSOH or HCJAC][num].html", type "|format=2".

In addition, for Court of Session cases, you must indicate "scotcase=IH" for Inner House cases, and "scotcase=OH" for Outer House cases.

{{cite BAILII
|litigants    = 
|link         = 
|court        = 
|reporter     = 
|scotcase     = 
|year         = 
|volume       = 
|firstpage    = 
|num          = 
|format       = 
|parallelcite = 
|date         = 
|courtname    = 
|juris        = 
|ref          = 
}}

or

{{cite BAILII|litigants=|link=|court=|reporter=|scotcase=|year=|volume=|firstpage=|num=|format=|parallelcite=|date=|courtname=|juris=|ref=}}

Parameters

All parameters are optional unless otherwise specified.

Parameter Description

Case name

litigants The names of the litigants separated with v for versus (in other words, the case name), like this: "Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service".

link The name of a Wikipedia article about the case, for example: "Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service". This will be linked to the names of the litigants specified using the |litigants= parameter.

BAILII link (general format): http://www.bailii.org/[country]/cases/court/division/year/num.html#parapara

court

Mandatory: The neutral citation code used by BAILII to identify the court that decided the case, as follows:

ECHR: European Court of Human Rights
EUECJ: European Court of Justice
EWCA: Court of Appeal of England and Wales
EWCC: County Court of England and Wales
EWHC: High Court of Justice (High Court of England and Wales)
EWMC: A magistrates' court in England and Wales
EWPCC: Patents County Court of England and Wales
IECA: Court of Appeal of Ireland
IECCA: Court of Criminal Appeal of Ireland
IEHC: High Court of Ireland
IESC: Supreme Court of Ireland
UKET: UK Employment Tribunal

NICA: Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland
NICC: Crown Court in Northern Ireland
NIHC: High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland
ScotCS: Scottish Court of Session
ScotHC: Scottish High Court of Justiciary
ScotSC: Scottish Sheriff Court
UKHL: House of Lords
UKIAT: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal
UKPC: Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
UKSC: Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
UKUT: Upper Tribunal
UKEAT: Employment Appeal Tribunal
UKVAT: VAT & Duties Tribunal

The template currently only handles cases decided by the above courts. Please update the template if you wish to include additional courts, or leave a message on the talk page if you need help with this.

division Mandatory for some cases: For some cases, you will need to enter a code used by BAILII to identify the division of the court that decided the case.

year Mandatory: the year of the decision.

num Mandatory: the case number.

para or paras A paragraph number or range of paragraph numbers (e.g., "113–129" – use an en dash to separate the numbers) of the case that you wish to cite.

BAILII link (some Privy Council cases)

format Mandatory for some cases: type "|format=1" if the URL is in the form "http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/[year]/[year]_[num].html".

BAILII link (some Irish cases)

format

Mandatory for some cases: if |year= is 2005 or 2019 then type:

|format=1 if the URL is in the form https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/[court]/[year]/'''[num]'''.html
|format=2 if the URL is in the form https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/[court]/[year]/'''C[num]'''.html Where C is a one- or two-letter abbreviation of [court]
|format=3 if the URL is in the form https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/[court]/[year]/'''[year]_[court]_[num]'''.html
|format=4 if the URL is in the form https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/[court]/[year]/'''[year][court][num]'''.html

BAILII link (some Scottish cases)

reporter

Mandatory for some Session Court and High Court of Justiciary cases: type:

"|reporter=R" for those reported in Rettie, Crawford and Melville's Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Court of Justiciary and House of Lords, from July 20, 1873, to August 7, 1874 [from July 27, 1897, to July 20, 1898] ... (4th Series) (1873–1898).
"|reporter=F" for those reported in Fraser's Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Court of Justiciary and House of Lords (5th Series) (1898–1906).
"|reporter=JC" for those reported in Justiciary Cases (from 1917).
"|reporter=SC" for those reported in Cases Decided in the Court of Session, and also in the Court of Justiciary and House of Lords (also known as Session Cases, from 1907).

volume Mandatory for some cases: the volume number of the law reports series in which the case appears.

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

scotcase Mandatory for Session Court cases: type "scotcase=IH" for Inner House cases and "scotcase=OH" for Outer House cases.

format

Mandatory for some cases: type:

"|format=1" if the URL is in the form "http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/[year]/[CSIH, CSOH or HCJAC]_[num].html".
"|format=2" if the URL is in the form "http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/[year]/[year][CSIH, CSOH or HCJAC][num].html".
"|format=3" if the URL is in the form "http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/[year]/[year]_[CSIH, CSOH or HCJAC]_[num].html".

BAILII link (some UK Employment Tribunal)

format

Mandatory for some cases: type:

"|format=5" if the URL is in the form "http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKET/[year]/[num]_[year].html".

Other information

eucase Mandatory for some cases: if you are citing a case by the European Court of Justice, you must indicate the case number, like this: "C-46/93".

pinpoint The page or paragraph number at which information or a quotation you are referring to appears, like this: "528", "p. 528" or "para. 25". When referring to a range of pages or paragraph numbers, separate the starting and ending numbers with an en dash like this: "528–530".

date The date that the case was decided. You may enter the date in any format accepted by the template {{date}}, such as "22 November 1983" or "1983-11-22". It will appear a day-month-year format.

parallelcite Parallel citations to the case. Separate the citations with commas, like this: "[1985] AC 374, [1984] 3 All ER 935".

courtname

The court that decided the case. The name of the court can be wikilinked, like this: "[[Judicial functions of the House of Lords|House of Lords]]".

To have the template automatically indicate the court and jurisdiction of a case, type "|courtname=auto". For Privy Council decisions, to indicate the jurisdiction from which the case was appealed, use |juris= together with "|courtname=auto".

juris

The jurisdiction that decided the case, such as "England and Wales" or "Scotland".

For Privy Council decisions, if you are not using "|courtname=auto", to achieve a result like "PC (on appeal from Jamaica)", use "|courtname=[[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council|PC]]" and "|juris=Jamaica". The template will automatically add the words "on appeal from".

ref This is equivalent to the corresponding parameter in Citation Style 1 templates. Use |ref={{sfnref|short reference text}} to link a citation with the corresponding inline callout {{sfn|short reference text}}. Do not place quotes around the ref value. The values |ref=harv and |ref=none do not have any special meaning.

Examples

Wikitext	Result
`{{cite BAILII \| litigants = Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service \| link = Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service \| court = UKHL \| year = 1983 \| num = 6 \| date = 22 November 1983 \| parallelcite = [1985] AC 374, [1984] 3 All ER 935 \| courtname = auto}}`	Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [1983] UKHL 6, [1985] AC 374, [1984] 3 All ER 935 (22 November 1983), House of Lords (UK)
`{{cite BAILII \| litigants = R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No. 2) \| link = R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No 2) \| court = EWCA \| division = Civ \| year = 2007 \| num = 498 \| parallelcite = [2008] QB 365}}`	R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No. 2) [2007] EWCA Civ 498, [2008] QB 365
`{{cite BAILII \| litigants = Brasserie du Pêcheur S.A. v Germany; R. v Secretary of State for Transport, ex parte Factortame Ltd. \| link = Factortame litigation#Factortame III: state liability \| court = EUECJ \| year = 1996 \| num = C4693 \| eucase = C-46/93 \| parallelcite = [1996] ECR I-1029, [1996] QB 404 \| courtname = [[European Court of Justice \| ECJ]]}}`	Brasserie du Pêcheur S.A. v Germany; R v Secretary of State for Transport, ex parte Factortame Ltd. [1996] EUECJ C-46/93, Case C-46/93, [1996] ECR I-1029, [1996] QB 404, ECJ
`{{cite BAILII \| court = UKPC \| year = 1983 \| num = 2 \| parallelcite = [1983] 2 AC 629 \| courtname = auto \| juris = Hong Kong}}`	[1983] UKPC 2, [1983] 2 AC 629, Privy Council (on appeal from Hong Kong)
Scottish cases
`{{cite BAILII \| litigants = Kennedy v Glenbelle Ltd. \| court = ScotCS \| scotcase = IH \| reporter = SC \| year = 1996 \| firstpage = 95 \| num = 5 \| courtname = auto}}`	Kennedy v Glenbelle Ltd. [1996] CSIH 5, 1996 SC 95, Court of Session (Scotland)
`{{cite BAILII \| litigants = Dempsey v Her Majesty's Advocate \| court = ScotHC \| year = 2005 \| num = 6 \| format = 1 \| parallelcite = (2005) 1 JC 252, 2005 SLT 201}}`	Dempsey v Her Majesty's Advocate [2005] HCJAC 6, (2005) 1 JC 252, 2005 SLT 201
`{{cite BAILII \| litigants = Flood v The University Court of the University of Glasgow \| court = ScotCS \| scotcase = IH \| year = 2010 \| num = 3 \| format = 2 \| courtname = auto}}`	Flood v The University Court of the University of Glasgow [2010] CSIH 3, Court of Session (Scotland)
`{{cite BAILII \| litigants = Cantone Ltd. v Procurator Fiscal, Kilmarnock \| court = ScotHC \| year = 2000 \| num = 5 \| date = 19 January 2000}}`	Cantone Ltd. v Procurator Fiscal, Kilmarnock [2000] HCJAC 5 (19 January 2000)

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Litigants	`litigants`	The parties to the litigation Example Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service	String	required
Link	`link`	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 name	optional
Court	`court`	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	String	required
Division	`division`	The division of the court (mandatory for some cases - e.g. EWCA Civ) Suggested values `Civ` `Crim` Example Civ	String	optional
Year	`year`	no description	String	optional
Case number	`num`	no description	Number	required
Format	`format`	Needed for some UKPC, Irish, Scottish and ET cases. See template page for details. Suggested values `1` `2` `3` `4` `5`	Number	optional
Reporter	`reporter`	Used for some Scottish cases Suggested values `R` `F` `JC` `SC`	String	optional
Volume	`volume`	Mandatory for some Scottish cases - the volume number	Unknown	optional
scotcase	`scotcase`	Mandatory for Scottish Court of Session cases - IH for Inner House, OH for Outer House Suggested values `OH` `IH`	String	optional
First Page	`firstpage`	Mandatory for some Scottish cases: the first page number on which the case appears in a particular law reports series.	Number	optional
European case number	`eucase`	Case number for the European Court of Justice. Example C-46/93	String	optional
Pinpoint	`pinpoint`	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	String	optional
Paragraph cited	`para`	A paragraph number. For a range, use the paras parameter. Example 113	Number	optional
Paragraphs cited	`paras`	A range of paragraph numbers cited - use an en dash to separate the numbers. Example 113–129	Unknown	optional
Parallel cite	`parallelcite`	Parallel citations to the case. Separate the citations with commas. Example [1985] AC 374, [1984] 3 All ER 935	String	optional
Court Name	`courtname`	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`	Content	optional
Date	`date`	The date that the case was decided. You may enter the date in any format accepted by the 'date' template.	Date	optional
Jurisdiction	`juris`	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`	String	optional
Ref	`ref`	The 'ref' parameter from CS1, which can be used with 'sfn' etc.	String	optional

Template:Cite BAILII

Usage

Template

General

Privy Council cases before May 1996

Irish cases

Scottish cases

Parameters

Examples

See also