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)

See also

{{Cite AustLII}} {{Cite CanLII}} {{Cite CommonLII}} {{Cite LIIofIndia}}

{{Cite NZLII}} {{Cite SAFLII}} {{Cite WorldLII}}

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

Template parameters[Edit template data]

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