Answered By: Jane
Last Updated: Apr 01, 2025     Views: 28

Since 2001, following a practice direction, judgments handed down from certain Courts have been assigned a neutral citation. This is a unique citation that refers to the court in which the case was heard rather than to a law report, e.g.:

Neutral citation

Prior to this judgments handed down by the Courts and not subsequently reported in any series of Law reports, would just be referred to as 'unreported' or 'transcript' making it more difficult to ascertain details of the case. 

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