Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities

4.2.2
of 
the appendix .
2.2 Cases from Scotland
The superior Scottish courts began issuing neutral citations in 2005 . Neutral citations 
follow the model used in England and Wales . The forms of neutral citation for the 
different Scottish courts are listed in section 
4.1.3 
of the appendix .
The most authoritative series of law reports in Scotland is 
Session Cases
. The single 
periodical 
Session Cases 
contains separately paginated sequences of reports from the 
Court of Session (‘SC’), the High Court of Justiciary (‘JC’) and the House of Lords/
Supreme Court (‘SC (HL)’ or ‘SC (UKSC)’) . Before 1906, volumes of 
Session Cases
were cited by editor and volume number: the editors were Shaw (S), Dunlop (D), 
Macpherson (M), Rettie (R) and Fraser (F) .
Refer to 
Session Cases 
if possible . The next most authoritative series of law reports is 
the 
Scots Law Times
(SLT), which is also arranged in separately paginated sequences 
of reports from different courts . With the exception of reports from the superior 
courts, the section is indicated in brackets following the abbreviation SLT . Other 
law reports series in Scotland include the 
Scottish Civil Law Reports
(SCLR) and the 
Scottish Criminal Case Reports 
(SCCR) .
Citations to judgments of the Court of Session may indicate whether the case was 
heard in the Inner House or Outer House by adding (IH) or (OH) after the citation, 
but this is not necessary where there is a neutral citation, as this will itself provide 
the information .
In citations of Scottish law reports, the year is not put in square brackets if it is required 
to locate the case in the series of reports, but it is put in round brackets if the volumes 

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of the report series are independently numbered . In OSCOLA, citations of Scottish 
law reports have no punctuation other than commas separating page numbers .
Hislop v Durham
(1842) 4 D 1168
Adams v Advocate General
2003 SC 171 (OH)
Dodds v HM Advocate
2003 JC 8
Crofters Commission v Scottish Ministers
2002 SLT (Land Ct) 19, 25
Davidson v Scottish Ministers
[2005] UKHL 74, 2006 SC (HL) [41]
Smart v HM Advocate
[2006] HCJAC 12, 2006 JC 119 [23]–[24]