Cases: Scotland, Northern Ireland and Elsewhere

The most authoritative Scottish series is Session Cases, in separately paginated sequences: SC for the Court of Session, JC for the High Court of Justiciary, SC (HL) and SC (UKSC) for appeals (r 2.2.1). Where the year locates the case, it stands bare — no brackets at all, a third convention beside the English square and round. Court of Session citations add (IH) or (OH) for the house.

Northern Ireland citations follow the England and Wales model, with the Northern Ireland Law Reports (NI) as the domestic series and NICA, NIKB and their siblings as the neutral identifiers (r 2.3.1).

Cite a foreign case exactly as its home jurisdiction does, dropping full stops from abbreviations, and add the court in brackets at the end only where the series does not already say it (r 2.6.1). For the highest court of a US state, the state abbreviation is enough.