Are judgments composed of paragraphs or sections?

Question

They seem to comprise numbered segments, but how are these referred to? Is there any conventional notation?

Answer 1

This will vary from judge to judge, and perhaps from case to case even for the same judge. The most common practicve might vary from court to court.

In the case of the US Supreme court, different decisions are organized in different ways. Some have sections labeled by numbers, some by letters, some by roman numbers, some by an outline hierarchy. Different opinions written by the same justice will be organized differently.

Similarly there is no consistent terminology for the divisions. When one p[art is referred to in another "section" seems most common, with "paragraph" being reserved for grammatical paragraphs, which are not usually numbered.