Cite & Reuse UK Law Reference
If you find our content useful for journalism, advice work, teaching, or research, we encourage proper citation. Below are examples in common citation formats, followed by a list of the assets on this site that are most useful to cite or link to directly.
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What you can cite
These are the site's most distinctive, citable assets — the ones we'd point a journalist, advice worker, or researcher to first. Each links to a stable page and comes with a copy-ready citation line.
Fixed recoverable costs tables & estimator
Every CPR Part 45 fixed recoverable costs table — pre-action, RTA/EL/PL Protocols, fast track, intermediate track, and NIHL claims — reproduced verbatim, plus an interactive estimator at /tools/frc-estimator.
Clear-days deadline calculator
A CPR 2.8 clear-days engine covering England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland bank holidays — for working out service, response and listing deadlines.
Section-level statute text with repeal/prospective status
115 Acts of Parliament broken down to section level — around 5,000 sections — each flagged as in force, repealed, or prospective, with the consolidated text from legislation.gov.uk.
Official Ministry of Justice quarterly timeliness figures for civil, family and criminal courts, machine-extracted from the source CSVs with the exact edition and column cited.
Case-law digests by court and area
Leading and recently ingested judgments grouped by area of law, each with neutral citation, court and date.
The verification receipts system
An explanation of the automated checks behind the site's 'Machine checks' line — quote matching against official transcripts, link health, and fee-drift detection — and what those checks do not cover.
750 defined legal terms in plain English, each linked back to the statutes and cases that use them.
What civil and criminal legal aid covers in England & Wales, with the Legal Aid Agency's income, capital and contribution thresholds quoted verbatim from GOV.UK.
Skilled Worker, Student, Visitor and Family (partner) route requirements, with the Home Office's own paragraph numbers and verbatim requirement text.
Licence & reuse
Our own content — summaries, explanations, tools and statistics pages — is free to cite and link to with attribution to UK Law Reference and a link back to the source page.
Where we reproduce statute text sourced from legislation.gov.uk, that text is Crown copyright, reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We are not the copyright holder of the underlying legislation, and reuse of that text is governed by the Open Government Licence, not by us.
Important Note on Citing Legal Sources
UK Law Reference is a secondary source. For formal legal writing or submissions to courts, you should always cite the primary source — the original statute or law report. Our content links to the official sources on legislation.gov.uk and BAILII to help you find them.
For academic essays and general research, citing UK Law Reference is appropriate as a reference tool, but your tutor or institution may have specific requirements — check their citation guidelines.