 AC – Appeal Cases Law Reports (England)

 AD- Appellate Division (South Africa)

 All E.R – All England Law Reports (England)
 All N. R – All Nigeria Law Reports
 ALR – African Law Reports
 BCLR – Butterworths Constitutional Law Reports
 CA – Court of Appeal
 CCR – Criminal Cases Reports
 CILSA – Comparative and International Law Journal of South Africa
 CHRLD- Commonwealth Human Rights Law Digest
 CWLR – Common Wealth Law Reports
 Cr. App Rep – Criminal Appeal
 E.A – East African Law Reports (East Africa)
 EACA – East African Court of Appeal Reports (East Africa)
 E.A.L.J – East African Law Journal
 E.A.P.L.R – East African Protectorate Law Reports
 ECHR – European Court of Human Rights
 E.R – English Reports
 HCB/HCMB – High Court Bulletin/ High Court Monthly Bulletin (Uganda)
 HCTLR- High Commission Territory Law Reports (BBS)
 ICC – International Criminal Court (The Hague)
 ICJ – International Court of Justice (The Hague, situated in Peace Palace)
 JAL-Journal of African Law
 JLE – Journal of Legal Education
 JMAS-Journal of Modern African Studies
 K.L.R. Kenya Law Reports (Kenya)
 KB /KBD King’s Bench/King’s Bench Division) (England)
 Lesotho L.J Lesotho Law Journal
 LLR – Lesotho Law Reports
 LLR-LB/ Lesotho Law Reports and Legal Bulletin
 LQR – Law Quarterly Review
 Makerere Law Journal- Makerere Law Journal
 LRNR- Law Reports of Northern Rhodesia
 MLR – Modern Law Review
 NSWLR – New South Wales Law Reports
 PC – Privy Council
 P.H – Prentice Hall Law Reports
 PCIJ- Permanent Court of International Justice (Predecessor to ICJ)
 Q.B/QBD – Queen’s Bench/Queen’s Bench Division (England)
 R&N – Rhodesia and Nyasaland Law Report
 SA – South African Law Reports
 SACR – South African Criminal Reports
 SALJ – South African Law Journal
 T.L.R – Tanganyika Law Reports (Tanzania)
 TWLS -Third World Law Studies
 UCU- L.R Uganda Christian University Law Review
 U.L.F- Uganda Law Focus (Uganda)
 U.L.J Uganda Law Journal
 U.J – Uganda Journal
 U.L.R – Uganda Law Reports
 WACA -West African Court of Appeal
 WALR- West Africa Law Reports
 W.L.R – Weekly Law Reports (England)
  Yale L.J – Yale Law Journal
 Z.L.R – Zanzibar Law Reports (Zanzibar)