Template:Cite court/doc

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CS1-family citation template for court cases and judicial decisions.

Usage

{{cite court
 |litigants=
 |year=
 |vol=
 |reporter=
 |opinion=
 |court=
 |date=
 |url=
 |access-date=
}}

Parameters

litigants: Required. Party names, italicised on render. Use "v" not "vs" or "v." per British convention.
year: Decision year, rendered in square brackets per Commonwealth case-citation form.
vol or volume: Volume of the reporter.
reporter: Reporter series abbreviation, e.g. "EWHC", "WLR", "AC", "F.3d", "SCC".
opinion: Opinion number, paragraph number, or page within the volume. Sub-court tags can be appended in parentheses, e.g. "123 (Admin)".
court: Deciding court name in full.
date: Decision date. Rendered in parentheses after the court name.
parallel-cite: Optional parallel citation in another reporter.
url: Link to the judgment.
access-date or accessdate: Date the URL was last verified.

Examples

{{cite court|litigants=Smith v Director of Public Prosecutions|year=2020|reporter=EWHC|opinion=123 (Admin)|court=England and Wales High Court|date=15 March 2020}}

Smith v Director of Public Prosecutions [2020] EWHC 123 (Admin). England and Wales High Court (15 March 2020).

{{cite court|litigants=R v Smith|year=2015|vol=2|reporter=SCR|opinion=602|court=Supreme Court of Canada|date=11 June 2015|url=https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/15403/1/document.do}}

[R v Smith] [2015] 2 SCR 602. Supreme Court of Canada (11 June 2015).

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