The bulk of the article is devoted to
developing neutral citation for state laws, but one detail attracted my attention.
Not exact matches
in scanned PDF format, all freely available on AustLII, but also in
developing a uniform and vendor -
neutral system of legal
citation for them.
-- CLIC
developed recommendations for uniform case
citations through standardizing court docket numbers across Canada (the forerunner of today's «
neutral citation»).
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.
This does not include any restriction on the use of
neutral citations used by PacLII, whether or not
developed by PacLII.