A Registry offers the court confidence that any judgment being cited will be correct version of the judgment. The following Resolution was decided at the Workshop and indicates best practice which courts should consider following. Recommends to the competent national authorities the adoption of a scheme of neutral citation of cases meeting the following basic requirements. This may be where relevant the ISO international coding. The meeting agreed to establish an international network for further development of co-operation in relation to citations and promotion of standards in the production and publication of primary legal texts.
Judgment here includes the opinions issued by more than one judge on the same occasion.
Clearly where the names of the parties to the case are not to be published, the designation by which the cause is to be known can be used instead. Date of judgment is usually the best indicator of year. However, some courts such as the European Court of Justice utilize year of initiation of case. 12 March 2000.