Template:Cite court
Template:Cite court is a no-Lua citation template for court judgments and tribunal decisions, styled after Wikipedia's {{cite court}} but built only from `` parser functions and plain text — no `#invoke`/Scribunto, per the wiki's hard no-Lua constraint. Display-only: it does not store data in Cargo.
Usage
{{Cite court
|litigants = Case Name v Other Party
|year = 2026
|reporter = SGHC
|page = 147
|court = General Division of the High Court of Singapore
|date = 14 July 2026
|url = https://www.elitigation.sg/gd/s/2026_SGHC_147
}}
Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| litigants | yes | Case name(s), without italics — the template italicises this automatically. For two originating claims heard together, separate the case names with "; ". |
| year | yes | Year of the neutral citation, e.g. `2026`. |
| reporter | yes | Report series abbreviation, e.g. `SGHC`, `SGCA`, `SGHC(A)`, `SGDC`. |
| page | yes | Citation number, e.g. `147`. |
| para | no | Pinpoint paragraph number(s), if citing a specific holding rather than the judgment as a whole. |
| court | no | Full name of the court, e.g. "General Division of the High Court of Singapore". |
| date | no | Date the judgment was delivered, in prose form (e.g. "14 July 2026"). |
| url | no | Link to the full judgment, e.g. an eLitigation.sg URL. |
| url_text | no | Link display text; defaults to "elitigation.sg" if `url` is set and this is left blank. |
Worked example
{{Cite court
|litigants = Shanmugam Kasiviswanathan v Bloomberg LP and another; Tan See Leng v Bloomberg LP and another
|year = 2026
|reporter = SGHC
|page = 147
|court = General Division of the High Court of Singapore
|date = 14 July 2026
|url = https://www.elitigation.sg/gd/s/2026_SGHC_147
}}
renders as:
- Shanmugam Kasiviswanathan v Bloomberg LP and another; Tan See Leng v Bloomberg LP and another [2026] SGHC 147, General Division of the High Court of Singapore, 14 July 2026. Full judgment: elitigation.sg.
Notes
- Use inside a `[1]` tag, same as any other citation template.
- If you only have a paragraph pinpoint and no `url`, still fill in `litigants`/`year`/`reporter`/`page` — those four are the minimum needed for the citation to be identifiable.
- This template does not attempt to distinguish between neutral citations and law-report citations (e.g. `SLR`); use whichever the source judgment carries in `reporter`.
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