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A unique number for each judgment will be allocated by the Registries and\nendorsed on each judgment. 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Once the judgment is reported, the neutral citation shall be given before any\ncitation from the law reports. Thus:\nSmith v Jones [2023] CICA (Civ) 25, [2023 CILR 124] etc.\n3.\nCitation to passages within judgments should be by reference to the paragraph numbers,\nusing square brackets, rather than to page numbers. Thus, paragraph 43 in Smith v\nJones, the 25th judgment issued by the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal in 2023,\nshould be cited as:\nSmith v Jones [2023] CICA (Civ) 25 at [43].\n4.\nWhere more than one paragraph in a judgment is cited, each numbered paragraph should\nbe enclosed with a square bracket. 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