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Court Rules
The bl-oscola standard allows you to cite court rules (the Civil Procedure
Rules, the Rules of the Supreme Court and the County Court Rules) in a special
way. (I’m not sure it’s mandatory to do so. And I don’t see why the same
couldn’t apply the the Crown Court Rules, but apparently it doesn’t.)
In effect, the rules provide for four special cases, and the package follows
suit. It’s probably best not to try to understand them. Just know that if you
do what you are told, you will get the right result.
The relevant entries should be defined in your bibliography database as
legislation with the entrysubtype set to procedure-rule. In the case of the
CPR and Practice Directions made under them, citations are ‘naked’ (without
any ‘r’ or ‘para’) and pagination is left blank. The RSC and CCR are cited by
rule, so pagination is set to rule:
@legislation{cpr,
title = {Civil Procedure Rules},
shorttitle = {CPR},
keywords = {en},
entrysubtype = {procedure-rule},
}
@legislation{pd,
title = {CPR Practice Direction},
shorttitle = {PD},
keywords = {en},
entrysubtype = {procedure-rule},
}
@legislation{rsc,
title = {Rules of the Supreme Court},
shorttitle = {RSC},
keywords = {en},
pagination = {rule},
entrysubtype = {procedure-rule},
}
@legislation{ccr,
title = {County Court Rules},
shorttitle = {CCR},
keywords = {en},
pagination = {rule},
entrysubtype = {procedure-rule}, }
Note that strictly speaking the title field is not essential; it will not be
printed in citations (but will be used simply for indexing).
When you come to cite these sources, you need to use a slightly different
format from the usual. Your postnote should be divided into two parts, separated
by | if necessary, corresponding to the order (or part of the CPR, or
Practice Direction) and the rule (or paragraph) you wish to cite.
Court Rules 51
[70]
[71]
[72]
[73]