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COURT REFERENCE ABBREVIATIONS

We abbreviate certain things on the site to make it easier to view pages but to help identify these please see the table below. Mention is mainly made of these on the Monthly Archive and Subject Matter sections.

Abbreviation	Court	Neutral Citations
HL(E)	House of Lords - England & Wales	These are references that, since 2001, have been given to Court of Appeal and High Court cases to identify them. They are constructed as follows:[Year] [Court] [Division] [Case No] example: R v Jones [2007] EWCA Crim 10 EW stands for England and Wales
PC	Privy Council
CA Civ	Court of Appeal - Civil Division
CA Crim	Court of Appeal - Criminal Division
QBD	Queen's Bench Division
Ch	Chancery Division
Fam	Family Division
ECJ	European Court of Justice
SC	Supreme Court
TC	Technology Court

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