Editing Bracket (section)

====Law====
Square brackets are used in some countries in the citation of [[law report]]s to identify parallel citations to non-official reporters. For example:
{{blockquote|''Chronicle Pub. Co. v [[Superior Court]]'' (1998) 54 Cal.2d 548, [7 Cal.Rptr. 109]}}
In some other countries (such as [[England and Wales]]), square brackets are used to indicate that the year is part of the citation and parentheses are used to indicate the year the judgment was given. For example:
{{blockquote|''National Coal Board v England'' [1954] AC 403}}
This case is in the 1954 volume of the Appeal Cases reports, although the decision may have been given in 1953 or earlier. Compare with:
{{blockquote|(1954) 98 Sol Jo 176}}
This citation reports a decision from 1954, in volume 98 of the ''[[Solicitors Journal]]'' which may be published in 1955 or later.

They often denote points that have not yet been agreed to in legal drafts and the year in which a report was made for certain [[case law]] decisions.