Not exact matches
I much prefer to recieve
electronic copies of
cases or an
electronic citation in order that I can copy and paste into my reasons or provide the
electronic passage to my assistant so she does not spend time copy typing.
Our tables of
cases still include
citations to as many as four print reporters, and we tend not to include cites to
electronic sources unless nothing else is available.
For
case law cited in the BC Court of Appeal, or if you're dealing with federal laws, online is fine: the Court of Appeal's Practice Directive on the
Citation of Authorities from 2013 accepts
electronic sources with neutral cites; and Justice Canada made online acts and regulations official in 2009.
They also include references to a competitor's
electronic citations when they appear in the original judgment being reviewed by editorial staff for the purpose of updating the publisher's own
case citator.
Reluctantly, publishers started to include
electronic citations in
case citators, albeit in an incomplete and half - hearted way.
However, no publisher systematically ensures that all of its competitors»
electronic citations are included in its
case citator, either as an original
citation or as a parallel or correlative
citation.
It was thought that including
electronic citations in
case citators would help the online competitor establish itself in the legal market to the detriment of the print publishers.
As the use of online services spread and as more and more
cases included
electronic citations, the usefulness of the «print only» citators declined.
I welcome this development as well, but share some of many of your concerns: only the neutral
citation is necessary for CanLII
cases, lawyers should be encouraged to use CanLII versions of
cases, and it's unnecessary to add the date a decision was accessed to an
electronic database
citation.
«Cite Unseen: Cyberspace has given birth to a new standard for
electronic case reference and
citation».
Some courts require the
citation to indicate at the end the
electronic source of the
case.
Peter's focus is addressing online access to
electronic court records, the importance of print - independent
citation methods, replacement of print for «official»
case law publication, and major institutional factors that have inhibited court innovation in the U.S.
In a prior post I explored how the transformation of
case law to linked
electronic data undercut Brian Garner's longstanding argument that judges should place their
citations in footnotes.
Here are some examples of the work that specialized virtual legal assistants and virtual paralegals may handle: transcription of dictation or handwritten notes; initial draft transcriptions of pleadings, motions, letters, blog posts, stipulations and interviews; revisions to the foregoing;
case and deadline management; document review and organization; pleading preparation, review local court rules,
electronic court filings,
electronic and mail service of document copies; assistance with legal briefs (
citation review, editing, table of authorities, table of contents, binding, printing and / or digital formats); coordination of service of process; billing assistance; internet research and investigation; document production, bates numbering and other discovery tasks; and preparation of hearing notebooks.
For most of us, the
citations to
cases, statutes, and administrative regulations we encounter in a judicial opinion are no longer static information about the authorities on which the text rests but
electronic pathways enabling immediate access to them.