Original
headnote by Robin Asbell: Indonesian cuisine is a riot of flavors, with rice.
Recently Chief Justice Wagner announced that the Supreme Court will modernize
its headnotes by adding a summary written for regular folks.
Not exact matches
The photography (
by the exceptionally talented Penny De Los Santos) is wonderful, and I really adore the short and sweet
headnotes: they make the book a true pleasure to read.
A majority of Canadian courts do not publish their decisions on their web site, in part due to the fact that court decisions are routinely screened, commented upon in the form of
headnotes and made available to members of the legal profession
by commercial publishers.
Sometimes the free resources are not seen as truly comprehensive collections, whereas the purchased ones are; sometimes the linking and cross referencing is more sophisticated in the commercial databases; often the value - added editorial content of
headnotes prepared
by legal editors has been enough to justify the outlay for these reports and legislation online.
Instead, the user can opt to display the full set of
headnotes for any case
by clicking on a button.
Headnote is an easy - to - use, trust - compliant payment tool for lawyers that allows attorneys to request online payment from clients
by either eCheck or credit card and offers attentive customer service.
Our editors, when writing a
headnote, attempt to apply the rules stated
by Wydick.
The preface takes a swipe at «divisive» judicial pension reform and its impact on recruitment (I see
by chance that one of the editors is Mostyn J) and contains a spoof judgment pre - RS v JS (though it is reminiscent of a case I had only the other week sitting as a deputy at Aldershot), the
headnote for which reads: Financial Remedy — Short marriage - Farming - Cross-claims - Conduct -(W) kidnapping, repulsive parents --(H) culinary incompetence, dysfunctional family — Twitter — W awarded # 10m.
I suspect the Law Society could figure out a way to sent around the
headnotes (done
by the OR team) with the electronic version, so members could read the
headnotes before deciding if they want to go to CanLii for the full text.
I realize the
headnote would be missing — this could be offset
by also providing a link to the LexisNexis Quicklaw version, if desired, which would contain their
headnote (assuming there was still a contract with that publisher; the link could just as easily be given to the WestlaweCARSWELL version).
Based on these judgments and inspired
by Westlaw key number and
headnotes system, the Litigation Technique R&D Center of the firm developed an unprecedented case number system, TianTong Key Number, to reveal more legal rules developed in Chinese judicial practice.
The law as laid down
by the DB judgment of the Delhi HC and further reiterated
by the SC judgement is that «there is a copyright in the
headnote» (and not as mis understood
by you «So even though there may not be any copyright in the head notes etc»)
Fast forward and,
headnotes notwithstanding, I find that the benefits we enjoy in comprehensiveness and keyword searching of databases are offset to a large extent
by their sheer size.
In reading what now passes for a
headnote in most of the cases reported
by Carswell, I came across the phrase, «efforts and exhortions».
The creation of indexes, summaries and
headnotes is today the main business of case law publishing, for either a print or an electronic product, and is done mostly
by the private sector.
Headnotes — a brief summary, comment, or explanation, often prepared
by an editor and pladed at the beginning of a court decision.
www.abanet.org/cpr Provides resources in legal ethics including the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and
headnote summaries of recent formal ethics opinions issued
by the ABA.
Most
headnotes for law reports are prepared
by editors employed
by private law book publishers.
Here at Maritime Law Book we believe that an in - house editorial staff tends to produce a better quality
headnote than the
headnotes that are prepared
by freelancers or
by editors located overseas.
The time saving provided
by a
headnote applies to both the print and online version of law reports.
Lend substance to your arguments
by using the language of the court instead of relying on third - party
headnotes
A direct consequence of that limited reach is that the contracted for summaries,
headnotes, and headings added to California decisions under the supervision of the reporter's office are not seen, let alone used,
by most researchers of California law.
As to the constituent elements of the offence created
by Criminal Code s. 122, the CanLII
headnote for, R. v. Boulanger, 2006 SCC 32, states in part (see paragraph 58 of the judgment):
These
by and large add little or nothing to the free
headnote, for example, that is published along with the decision from the Supreme Court.