Case Law – Citation Field

The Citation text boxes on the Search In Cases screen allow you to search for a case report, practice direction or neutral citation by entering its details.

You can also paste a complete citation into any of the text boxes except the first (this is for the year, and will only accept 4 characters).

For a neutral citation, enter the number in the “page” box.

There is a field called Citation in some of the case law databases on Justis; it contains the publication reference(s) of the original document. For example:

Original Citation: (1866) 6 B & S 723
English Reports Citation: 122 E.R. 1361

[1992] 2 I.R. 1;[1991] ILRM 577

Blue, underlined references are hypertext links – click the reference and the full text of the case report will be displayed for you, provided that you have a subscription to the appropriate database on Justis.

Please note that the name of this field has changed from the previous versions of Justis, where it was called References.

Starting with the launch of Justis 2.0, the other case law databases also include a Citation field, which contains a standardised version of the document’s citation, and appears at the end of the document. For example:

[1980] 1 F.L.R. 334

Publication Reference Formats

A complete and current list of formats that are recognised by J-Link and can be used in the Citation field is available in the Support section of the Justis website. The items include:

Case Law – publication references (not case names)
Human Rights Case Law – references

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