Hi Simon: subject to the issue of having absolutely zero time to develop some sort of online
Canadian legal citation guide for free, I remain game.
If anyone can succeed in eliminating useless punctuation in
Canadian legal citation, it is Daniel Poulin, using the resources of CANLII and LEXUM.
Zotero comes with a variety of bibliographic and citation styles built in (though not, I think,
the Canadian legal citation format).
We, Frédéric Pelletier and I, took a personal interest in freeing the legal community from useless punctuation that used to characterize
Canadian legal citations.
Not exact matches
I believe the most logical place to start is for publishers to develop output styles for their electronic services that are compatible with the software, as a
citation style file that will handle the majority of
Canadian primary and secondary
legal materials can be created, and this would only require manual editing of those materials that fall outside the style.
I stumbled across part of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition website, where I found a good swathe of the 6th edition of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation available online in PDF.
Just as the current edition took a major step forward by elimination of the heretofore sacrosanct, but totally useless period, in
legal citation, the editors of the Guide to Canadian Legal Research are able to introduce reality into the practice of citing court decisions by a few simple changes to the recommended Hierarchy of Sources for case
legal citation, the editors of the Guide to
Canadian Legal Research are able to introduce reality into the practice of citing court decisions by a few simple changes to the recommended Hierarchy of Sources for case
Legal Research are able to introduce reality into the practice of citing court decisions by a few simple changes to the recommended Hierarchy of Sources for case law.
The 7th edition of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation is over a year old already.
A Review of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation.
The time is approaching for work to begin on the new edition of the
Canadian Guide to
Legal Citation.
of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation and I must say that in my experience with the 7th ed., it is far closer to the 7th circle of hell than the 7th sphere of heaven.
Perhaps it is time for the Federation of Law Societies of Canada to step in and formulate a Model Code of
Legal Citation, as they have done with the Model Code of Professional Conduct, or their task force on the
Canadian common law degree.
The McGill is the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation, but lately I have been wondering if there might be room for another guide to legal citation in Ca
Legal Citation, but lately I have been wondering if there might be room for another guide to legal citation in
Citation, but lately I have been wondering if there might be room for another guide to
legal citation in Ca
legal citation in
citation in Canada?
Sometime later this spring, there will be an announcement of yet another new edition of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation (the McGill Guide).
The eighth edition of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation («McGill Guide») was published in May.
If you would like to publish with the MJDR please follow the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation, used by all major Canadian legal journals and accessible on
Legal Citation, used by all major
Canadian legal journals and accessible on
legal journals and accessible online.
If you would like to publish with us, please ensure to follow the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation — used by all major Canadian legal journals and accessible on
Legal Citation — used by all major
Canadian legal journals and accessible on
legal journals and accessible online.
Canadian legal interpretation writers like John Mark Keyes and David Kilgour both show up, but you won't get anything other than a
citation.
With the new fall term just beginning, and thousands of first - year law students across the country entering upon
legal studies; and with the student editors of the McGill Law Journal preparing yet another new edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance in 1986), I thought it an... [
legal studies; and with the student editors of the McGill Law Journal preparing yet another new edition of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance in 1986), I thought it an... [
Legal Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance in 1986), I thought it an... [more]
Early in my career, when I was a freshly hatched
legal editor, I pored over the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (the McGill Gu
legal editor, I pored over the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation (the McGill Gu
Legal Citation (the McGill Guide).
The
Canadian public has a right to an accessible standard of
legal citation that will facilitate, not hinder their... [more]
Answer — When it appears in the McGill Law Journal's
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation (the «McGill Guide»)
Surely it can't be too hard a job for someone to produce a basic
Canadian legal style for Zotero;
citation styles for cases, statutes, journal articles and books would get us quite a distance along.
As well, a
citation of the extent to which foreign, comparative, and international law is cited with approval in
Canadian appellate courts would be informative and helpful to
legal scholars and
legal researchers generally.
Mirando suggests that the
Canadian legal community develop a free uniform
citation guide.
These online research guides are provided by the University of Calgary and include: University of Calgary Law Library Research Guides; Other
Canadian Research Guides; Non-
Canadian Legal Research Guides; Internet Research Guides; Abbreviations; and
Legal Citation guides.
If Iceland can crowd - source a constitution perhaps the
Canadian legal profession can crowd - source new
citation rules, which once finalized, can reside on CanLII for everyone to access for free.
The
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation was created by the editors of the McGill Law Journal and published by Carswell Thomson.
Ted Tjaden (August 20), Mark Lewis (September 3), and Shaunna Mireau (September 9 and September 14) have already posted on the McGill Law Journal's
Canadian guide to uniform
legal citation, 7th ed.
Appendix A and Appendix F of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation (aka McGill Guide), should do the trick.
Why is it, then, that
citation systems for law — whether the Harvard Bluebook, the Chicago Maroon Book, the Canadian McGill Guide, the British OSCOLA: Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities or the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
citation systems for law — whether the Harvard Bluebook, the Chicago Maroon Book, the
Canadian McGill Guide, the British OSCOLA: Oxford University Standard for
Citation of Legal Authorities or the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
Citation of
Legal Authorities or the Australian Guide to
Legal Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other
citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
citation systems, offering a system of
citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive i
citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive in scope?
With the new fall term just beginning, and thousands of first - year law students across the country entering upon
legal studies; and with the student editors of the McGill Law Journal preparing yet another new edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance in 1986), I thought it an opportune moment to add my thoughts on the practice of legal citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means of legal citation as currently pract
legal studies; and with the student editors of the McGill Law Journal preparing yet another new edition of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance in 1986), I thought it an opportune moment to add my thoughts on the practice of legal citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means of legal citation as currently pract
Legal Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance in 1986), I thought it an opportune moment to add my thoughts on the practice of legal citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means of legal citation as currently pr
Citation (incredibly, the 8th since its first appearance in 1986), I thought it an opportune moment to add my thoughts on the practice of
legal citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means of legal citation as currently pract
legal citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means of legal citation as currently pr
citation and how we — and specifically the editors of the McGill Guide — would do well to reconsider both the ends and the means of
legal citation as currently pract
legal citation as currently pr
citation as currently practised.
The review does not mention that there is only a draft version of a
citation style for the Blue Book, and nothing in the works to make Zotero work with our own inimitable Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal C
citation style for the Blue Book, and nothing in the works to make Zotero work with our own inimitable
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal CitationCitation.
Colleague Katharine Thompson has provided me a list of some of the changes she noticed in the new, just received 7th edition of the McGill Guide, known more formally as the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation, edited by editors of the McGill Law Journal and published by Carswell.
Clarification on these issues is welcome, and perhaps it will come when the next edition of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation is published.
My library continues to subscribe to the Abridgment and all its peripherals: the Consolidated Table of Cases (billed separately), Key and Research Guide,
Canadian Current Law,
Canadian Case
Citations,
Canadian Statute
Citations and the Index to
Canadian Legal Literature.
The Neutral
Citation Standard for Case Law was developed in 1998 by the
Canadian Citation Committee, an informal group that brought together various specialists in
legal information from the judiciary, academia and the publishing industry, including slawers Martin Felsky and Daniel Poulin.
One of the more frequently asked questions I would receive when I was at the Faculty of Law at U of Toronto was: «Is there an online version of the McGill Guide (the
Canadian guide for
legal citation)?
Here in Alberta, on November 12, 2013 there was a Notice to the Profession from the Court of Queen's Bench adopting the 7th edition of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation (Toronto: Carswell, 2010).
Other useful guides are the
Canadian Judicial Council's Practice Direction on the Use of Neutral
Citation for Case Law (2008) and
Legal Research Materials:
Legal Citation prepared by the William R. Lederman Law Library at Queen's University.
As one study on
Canadian legal journals that included
citations to Wikipedia discovered, 35 % of
citations to Wikipedia had pertinent content that was significantly altered after the date of
citation.
Louise Hamel, manager of the Judges» Library for Ontario Courts, just announced to
Canadian legal publishers that beginning January 2, 2010, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice will assign a neutral
citation to their decisions, except for the Small Claims Court.
Hosted on WestlawNext Canada, the online versions of
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation, 8th Edition makes it accessible anytime, anywhere.
In addition, although the new 6th edition of the «McGill Guide» (the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation) does not appear to discuss «blogs» specifically, one could likely adapt their rules and examples on citing to electronic sources under Rule 6.19.
The McGill Law Journal recently completed the latest (6th) edition of its famous
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation.
Much has been written on SLAW about the fairly recent 7th edition of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation (known as the McGill Guide, red in colour, and published by Carswell), including a lengthy 21 September 2010 post by John Davis that includes links to prior posts.
Last Summer, the 7th edition of the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation (the «McGill Guide») introduced this «General Rule» at p. E-3:
Personally, I have stopped short of keeping the
Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation and the Chicago Manual of Style on my night - table.
Canadian courts,
legal periodicals, law faculties and lawyers rely on the Guide to maintain a uniform system of
legal citation.
The
Canadian Legal Information Institute — CanLII — has just introduced a refinement to its search and
citation tools where legislation is concerned.