Precedence of Report Series 

The Case Information Page on JustCite lists all of the parallel citations to the case at each stage of its appellate history.

JustCite sorts the list of parallel citations first by court, then by precedence of report series. The most authoritative report of the judgment of each court in the case’s appellate history is highlighted in bold, thereby making the task of determining which report must be cited in court a trivial process.

In compliance with paragraph 8 of the Practice Statement (Supreme Court: Judgments) [1998] 1 WLR 825, with OSCOLA (Fourth Edn), and after consultation with the JustCite Focus Group, the order of report precedence used on JustCite is as follows:

  1. The Law Reports
  2. Weekly Law Reports
  3. All England Law Reports
  4. Neutral Citation

    5. For JustCite’s purposes, the neutral citation is used for linking to BAILII and to other transcript services, so it has to appear somewhere in the list of reports as an independent entity. The consensus of the focus group was that it should appear here.

  5. Specialist Series

    6. If reported in more than one specialist series, series published by the ICLR will be considered most authoritative, then series from Sweet and Maxwell, then others.

  6. Times Law Reports
  7. WLR Digest (aka Daily Cases)
  8. Other Digests