Also, although they do mention the McGill Guide, they refer to the 4th not the 6th edition, and there is no mention of
neutral citation at all.
You MUST include
a Neutral Citation at least as a parallel citation when submitting something to the courts.
Not exact matches
That being said, I think it is silly to require parallel
citations at all and would rather see courts require a static URL in addition to one
citation for a case,
neutral cite first, any other
citation second and in the form that the publisher of that second
citation produced it in.
In the meantime, until CanLII is able to convince the courts to include
neutral citations, it seems to me that the algorithm should
at least be modified so that it picks up valid, major, SCC commercial
citations such as the DLR.
Canada's pathbreaking vendor -
neutral legal
citation standard, and CanLII's innovative RefLex citator, are the topics of Ivan Mokanov's new post, entitled Environmentally - Friendly
Citations, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute
at Cornell University Law School.
Other useful guides are the Canadian Judicial Council's Practice Direction on the Use of
Neutral Citation for Case Law (2008) and Legal Research Materials: Legal
Citation prepared by the William R. Lederman Law Library
at Queen's University.
Divergent views are expressed regarding the need to include a full Quicklaw or Westlaw Canada
citation in addition to citing to a print reporter or
neutral citation, and the need to refer
at all to the electronic version if a print reporter is cited.
with
neutral citations, one already know the court level, so for a
citation such as, say, 2007 CSC 7
at para. 20, 2007 SCC 7
at para. 7, there's no need to put the (CSC) or (SCC) in
at all.
This entry was posted on Monday, February 10th, 2014
at 9:32 pm and is filed under
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