Template:Cite BAILII/doc

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.

General


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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 "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:

! value !! format !! examples
 * + Format of last URL component for various format values
 * 1 || [num] || https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IESC/2005/10.html https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IECCA/2005/4.html
 * 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
 * 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
 * 4 || [year][court][num] || https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IESC/2019/2019IESC92.html https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IECA/2019/2019IECA332.html
 * }
 * 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
 * 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 "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 "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 "SC". You must also use year, firstpage and num.
 * Reported in Justiciary Cases (from 1917): type "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 "1".
 * If the URL is in the form " http://www.bailii.org/scot/cases/ScotCS/[year]/[year][CSIH, CSOH or HCJAC][num].html ", type "2".

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



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Parameters
All parameters are optional unless otherwise specified.