Answered By: Bissy Ithack
Last Updated: Jul 19, 2024     Views: 1155

A case citation is a reference to a legal decision. Citations can be a law report citation or a neutral citation.

A Law report citation is a reference to a case that has been published in a Law report. 

It generally includes the

  • names of the parties to the case
  • year the decision of the Court was delivered  or published
  • the volume number of the law report
  • abbreviation of the law report series
  • first page on which the case is reported

For example

Singapore reported citation

Neutral citations are assigned by the Court, and it is independent of the series of law reports. Each written judgment from a particular level of Court is assigned a sequential number, starting from 1 at the beginning of each calendar year.

Singapore neutral citation

Search by names of parties or by citation in the LawNet database(access through this link. Login with your LawNet login ID and password) to find Singapore cases.

UK reported citation

 

UK neutral citation 

Search by case name or citation in Lexis Advance Singapore, ICLR or Westlaw database to find UK cases. The official UK law reports(ICLR) and the Weekly Law reports are accessible through the LawNet database.

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