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CITATIONS IN COURT Albeit a point of etiquette, giving citations of case law correctly is a necessary part of mooting best tackled as soon as possible. There are two things to consider.First, which case reports are you going to refer to?For example the case of Hughes v Lord Advocate is reported in, amongst other, the Law reports, Weekly Law Reports and the All England Law Reports. Which should be used?In accordance with the practice direction given by Lord X MR, where a case is reported in the official law reports, i.e. the Appeals Cases [AC], Queens Bench Reports [QB] or [QBD], Chancery Divsion Reports [Ch] or [ChD], Weekly Law Reports [WLR] and so forth, the citation from the relevant official report, provided by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporters (ICLR) should be used in preference to the All England Law Reports [All ER] and others such as the Industrial Case Reports or The Times.Second, how do you cite cases orally?Writing citations is easy (just remember to underline or italicise the names of the parties and the v or Re) but when speaking, the following suggestions might prove useful.R v Brown [1994] AC 212 The Crown and Brown, as reported in the first volume of the Appeals Cases of 1994 beginning at page two hundred and twelve.Re Hastings Bass [1975] Ch 25In re Hastings Bass, as reported in the first volume of the Chancery Reports of 1975 beginning at page twenty-five.Janvier v Sweeney [1919] 2 KB 316Janvier and Sweeney as reported in the second volume of the Kings Bench Reports of 1919 beginning at page three hundred and sixteenSwf：不过刑事案件一般不读“和”，而是读“诉”（versus）You get the point.Where possible neurtral citations (e.g. UKHL and so forth) should not be used. A final note about administrative law cases, R (Jackson) translates as The Crown on the application of Jackson...Case citation is the system used in many countries to identify the decisions in past court cases, either in special series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a neutral form whi