Footnotes

If your judgment/decision requires footnotes, we recommend using either the Footnote or Endnote function in Word. Whether you choose footnotes or endnotes, please use that system consistently throughout the document.

Please note, in the web version of the document, all footnotes will appear at the end of the judgment/decision. In the PDF version, they will appear as they do in the Word document.

Where to find the footnote/endnote functions

MS Word screenshot showing menu location for footnotes.
The Footnote and Endnote function can be found under the Reference section in Word.

Example of correctly formatted footnotes

Digital Growth Experts Ltd v Information Commissioner [2023] UKFTT 458 (GRC)

In this decision, a footnote has been used at paragraph at paragraph 22:

An example of a footnote being displayed on a document using the MS Word footnote format.
The footnote in this example was created using the Footnote function in Word.

When the decision appears online, the parser can recognise that this is a footnote as it has been created using the Footnote function, and so can move it to the end of the decision:

A footnote on a document shown in the correct position at the bottom of the page.
The parser has picked up the footnote and moved it to the bottom of the web version of the decision.

Example of incorrectly formatted footnotes

Digital Capital Limited v Genesis Mining Iceland E.H.F. [2021] EWHC 2462 (Comm)

In this judgment, a footnote has been added at paragraph 47. However, it has been placed in manually rather than using the footnote function.

Example of a manually placed footnote in a MS Word document.
This footnote at paragraph 47 has been created manually.

As the footnote has been placed manually, the parser cannot recognise it properly and so the footnote appears like normal text:

Example of a the same manually placed footnote in the web view, the parser cannot place manually added footnotes in the correct place.
In the web version of the judgment, the footnote is appearing between two paragraphs rather than at the end of the judgment.