I like neutral citations for their cleanness of look, so it really shouldn't be any different — D.L.R. and DLR mean the same thing.
Not exact matches
The
neutral citation serves the purpose of bringing the whole system under one roof again because it is a creation of the judicial system itself,
like the docket number, etc..
And though I wouldn't argue for the effort of devising a fuzzy logic search for misspelled names, I would
like to see CanLII amend its
citation recognition algorithm to bring in the obvious (wrongful) variations on the
neutral citation scheme and the commercial publisher
citations as well.
Arkansas and Louisiana, two state systems that, similarly, adopted
neutral citation but sought to avoid paragraph numbering by specifying the pagination in a court - released pdf file as the basis for pinpoint references, have suffered the same fate in research services that,
like Google Scholar, base their texts for many jurisdictions on the versions published in the Thomson Reuters National Reporter System.