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APPENDIX 4: ENGLAND AND WALES OFFICIAL REPORT SERIES AND NEUTRAL CITATIONS

For guidance on citation of decisions from England and Wales, see rule 8.4.

Official reports

The official reports for England and Wales are called the Law Reports. The main series in the Law Reports are listed below with the relevant abbreviation and time period.

Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Cases

LR A & E

Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Cases

1865–1875

Appeal Cases

LR HL

English and Irish Appeal Cases and Peerage Claims, House of Lords

1866–1875

LR S & D

Scotch and Divorce Appeal Cases, House of Lords

1888–1875

LR PC

Privy Council Appeals

1865–1875

App Cas

Appeal Cases

1875–1890

AC

Appeal Cases

1891–

Chancery

LR Eq

Equity Cases

1865–1875

LR Ch App

Chancery Appeal Cases

1865–1875

Ch D

Chancery Division

1875–1890

Ch

Chancery Division

1891–

Common Pleas

LR CP

Common Pleas

1865–1875

CPD

Common Pleas Division

1875–1880

Crown Cases Reserved

LR CCR

Crown Cases Reserved

1865–1875

Exchequer

LR Ex

Exchequer

1865–1874

Ex D

Exchequer Division

1875–1880

Family

Fam

Family Division

1972–

Probate and Divorce

LR P & D

Probate and Divorce

1865–1875

PD

Probate Division

1875–1890

P

Probate Division

1891–1971

Queens’s and King’s Bench

LR QB

Queen’s Bench

1865–1875

QBD

Queen’s Bench

1875–1890

QB

Queen’s Bench

1891–1900

KB

King’s Bench

1901–1952

QB

Queen’s Bench

1952–

Neutral citations

The following list indicates when the various neutral citations were officially adopted.

Note that some earlier decisions have been given what look like neutral citations by the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII). These are not official and should not be used.

Supreme Court (UKSC)October 2009

House of Lords (UKHL)January 2001

Privy Council (UKPC)January 2001

Court of Appeal (Civil) (EWCA Civ)January 2001

Court of Appeal (Criminal) (EWCA Crim) January 2001

High Court (Administrative Court) (EWHC)*January 2001

High Court (Admiralty Division) (EWHC)*January 2002

High Court (Chancery Division) (EWHC)*January 2002

High Court (Commercial Court) (EWHC)*January 2002

High Court (Family Division) (EWHC)*January 2002

High Court (Mercantile Court) (EWHC)*January 2002

High Court (Patents Court) (EWHC)* January 2002

High Court (Queen’s Bench Division) (EWHC)*January 2002

High Court (Technology and Construction Court) (EWHC)*January 2002

Family Court (EWFC)April 2014

Court of Protection (EWCOP)April 2014

* The divisions and specialist courts of the High Court all have the court identifier “EWHC”. They are distinguished by indicating the division or specialist court after the judgment number in round brackets.

Eg Thomson v Berkhamsted Collegiate School [2009] EWHC 2374 (QB).

The following identifiers are used.

Administrative Court(Admin) Family DivisionFam)

Admiralty Division(Admlty) Patents Court(Pat)

Chancery Division(Ch) Queen’s Bench Division(QB)

Commercial Court(Comm) Technology and Construction CourtTCC)

Mercantile Court(Mercantile)

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