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.

Template

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

or

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

Parameters

All parameters are optional unless otherwise specified.

Parameter	Description
Case name
litigants	The names of the litigants separated with v or 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: 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: Magistrates' Court of England and Wales EWPCC: Patents County Court of England and Wales IECCA: Court of Criminal Appeal of Ireland IEHC: High Court of Ireland IESC: Supreme Court of Ireland 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 UKPC: Judicial Committee of the Privy Council UKSC: Supreme Court of the United Kingdom 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. As at 4 November 2010, the template only creates proper links to Scottish cases decided between April 1998 and December 2004, because the URL format of cases before and after that period is different. This issue is being looked into.
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	A paragraph number of the case that you wish to cite.
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] A.C. 374, [1984] 3 All E.R. 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 "P.C. (on appeal from Jamaica)", use "courtname=[[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council|P.C.]]" and "juris=Jamaica". The template will automatically add the words "on appeal from".

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] A.C. 374, [1984] 3 All E.R. 935|courtname=auto}}	Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [1983] UKHL 6, [1985] A.C. 374, [1984] 3 All E.R. 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] Q.B. 365}}	R. (Bancoult) v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No. 2) [2007] EWCA Civ 498, [2008] Q.B. 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] E.C.R. I-1029, [1996] Q.B. 404|courtname=[[European Court of Justice|E.C.J.]]}}	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] E.C.R. I-1029, [1996] Q.B. 404, E.C.J.
{{cite BAILII|court=UKPC|year=1983|num=2|parallelcite=[1983] 2 A.C. 629|courtname=auto|juris=Hong Kong}}	[1983] UKPC 2, [1983] 2 A.C. 629, Privy Council (on appeal from Hong Kong)

See also

• {{Canlii-scc}}
• {{Cite Case AU}}
• {{Cite SAFLII}}