Legal formatting I d be interested to know people s views on the formatting of some of this and other articles I note that since I added detail a few years ago for example someone had added plaintiff rather than the more commonly used claimant and rather than my explanation of a case which applied the rule in McGhee simply stated applying Whilst I understand the law report format of this kind of change I wonder if wikipedia should use such styles or whether it should be more accessible As such I ve adjusted plaintiff to claimant though I have left the applying and other stylistic points as they are