This is all further complicated when you are trying to teach first year students about
legal citation when EVERY source they use retains the period.
Not exact matches
Not only that,
when Traffic Jam Pilot is active, Audi expects to take
legal responsibility for the outcome of the car's driving, right down to accidents or driving
citations.
When a judicial opinion cites to a prior case, the
citation often includes a parenthetical that summarizes the prior case's
legal substance.
I assume this is how some of the people who visit
legal sites also feel
when the content starts delving into jargon and
citations of specific
legal code.
When you click the highlighted portion, the
Legal Issue Trail lists both the cases that cite to that passage, as well as which case the
citation came from.
Why would Carswell / Thomson / McGill want to make the McGill guide free
when the BCCA has recently mandated that the 7th ed will be the standard for
citation of
legal material?
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).
When this style is selected, PerfectIt also checks spelling, capitalization, hyphenation and italicization in
legal terms based on Black's Law Dictionary; finds errors in case citations based on The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation; and suggests style tips from The Red Book: A Manual On Legal Style by Bryan Garner and The Elements of Style by Strunk & W
legal terms based on Black's Law Dictionary; finds errors in case
citations based on The Bluebook: A Uniform System of
Citation; and suggests style tips from The Red Book: A Manual On
Legal Style by Bryan Garner and The Elements of Style by Strunk & W
Legal Style by Bryan Garner and The Elements of Style by Strunk & White.
Answer —
When it appears in the McGill Law Journal's Canadian Guide to Uniform
Legal Citation (the «McGill Guide»)
More than three times as many people involved in this survey fear
legal liability than a possible
citation from police
when texting and driving.
Given where things stood 20 years ago —
when virtually all
legal writers stuffed their cumbersome
citations mid-text and often mid-sentence — I'm delighted by how many courts have taken to
Includes
citations and abstracts to free and subscription scholarly and
legal journals and automatically links to full text
when available.
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.
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)?
Personally I see that neutral
citations have great potential if and
when they come to be accepted by the
legal profession as the primary means of identifying cases.
We do not always have
citation proofreading assistance
when writing
legal texts.
It's the same
when reading
legal citations.
As has worked in the past,
when the neutral
citation system for Canadian courts was created and adopted, and equally a uniform naming convention for Canadian judgments, I would suggest the work be entrusted to a core working group supported by an advisory board representative of all the affected communities: the Courts (and the Canadian Judicial Council), the law publishers both print and digital (especially CanLII and Lexum),
legal writing and research faculty, law librarians and practising lawyers from both our French and English
legal communities.
Keep in mind, certain
citations may not call for
legal representation — check out our guide,
When to Hire a Traffic Ticket Lawyer, to see if you're facing charges that'd benefit from having an attorney.
In a recent decision, Santo v. Santo (
citation not yet available), published July 11, 2016, the Maryland Court of Appeals confirmed a trial judge's authority to award one party tie - breaking authority, for
legal custody, even
when parents have an inability to communicate on major decisions affecting the health, education, welfare, religion of a minor child.