How do you cite a foreign court decision?

• A. Party v. Party (Country Court Year). Example: R. v. Brown, (Eng. Ct. App. 2001).
• B. Party v. Party (Country Court Year). Example: R. v. Brown, Eng. Ct. App. 2001).
• C. Party v. Party, (Country Court Year). Example: R. v. Brown, Eng. Ct. App. 2001).
• D. Party v. Party (Country Court Year). Example: R. v. Brown, (Eng. Ct. App. 2002).

Answer: (A)

The main idea is to place the jurisdiction and year in a single parenthetical right after the case name, with the court inside that parenthetical. This signals that the source is a foreign decision and shows exactly which court issued it and when.

In the example form, you have the case name, then a comma, then parentheses containing the foreign court and the year: R. v. Brown, (Eng. Ct. App. 2001). This aligns with the standard: the country or jurisdiction and the decision year are enclosed together in a parenthetical after the party names, and the period ends the citation.

The other formats misplace or omit the parentheses or use an inconsistent punctuation pattern, which departs from the conventional foreign authority format Bluebook prescribes. For instance, omitting the parentheses or putting the court and year outside them, or using a different year, would not conform to the established rule for foreign decisions.