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English or Welsh case

What it is

A decision of a court of England and Wales.

How to cite it

Cited under r 8.4, with a square-bracket year. r 8.4.1 prefers the Law Reports over the All England Reports and the Weekly Law Reports where a case appears in both.

Example citation

Foskett v McKeown [1998] 1 WLR 840 (Ch).

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