Keenan and Riches’BUSINESS LAW

A unique case number is allocated to each case. There

are no page numbers but paragraph numbers are used

instead to help the reader locate a section of the judg-

ment more precisely. A paragraph reference is cited as

Jonesv Brown[2006] EWCA Civ 13 at [45]. The abbre-

viations for neutral citation are as follows:

Case names, citations and law report abbreviations

xxii

UKHL House of Lords

UKPC Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

EWCA Civ Court of Appeal Civil Division

EWCA Crim Court of Appeal Criminal Division

EWHC (Admin) High Court (Administrative Court)

EWHC (Admlty) High Court (Admiralty Court)

EWHC (Ch) High Court (Chancery Division)

EWHC (Comm) High Court (Commercial Court)

EWHC (Fam) High Court (Family Division)

EWHC (QB) High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)

EWHC (Pat) High Court (Patents Court)

EWHC (TCC) High Court (Technology and Construction Court)

Law report abbreviations

The following sets out the abbreviations used when cit-

ing the various series of certain law reports which are in

common use, together with the periods over which they

extend:

AC Law Reports, Appeal Cases 1891–(current)

ATC Annotated Tax Cases 1922–1975

All ER All England Law Reports 1936–(current)

All ER Rep All England Law Reports Reprint, 36 vols 1558–1935

App Cas Law Reports, Appeal Cases, 15 vols 1875–1890

BCLC Butterworths Company Law Cases 1983–(current)

B & CR Reports of Bankruptcy and Companies Winding-up Cases 1918–(current)

CLY Current Law Yearbook 1947–(current)

CMLR Common Market Law Reports 1962–(current)

Ch Law Reports Chancery Division 1891–(current)

Com Cas Commercial Cases 1895–1941

Fam Law Reports Family Division 1972–(current)

ICR Industrial Court Reports 1972–1974; Industrial Cases Reports 1974 –(current)

IRLB Industrial Relations Law Bulletin 1993–(current)

IRLR Industrial Relations Law Reports 1971–(current)

ITR Reports of decisions of the Industrial Tribunals 1966–(current)

KB Law Reports, King’s Bench Division 1901–1952

LGR Local Government Reports 1902–(current)

LRRP Law Reports Restrictive Practices 1957–(current)

Lloyd LR or Lloyd’s List Law Reports 1919–(current)

Lloyd’s Rep (from 1951)

NLJ New Law Journal

BUSL_A01.qxd 3/13/09 10:28 AM Page xxii