Sentences with phrase «neutral citation if»
I would suggest instead though: «cite neutral citation if available, otherwise just make sure everyone knows what you are citing to.»
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4.3 Citation to Case law [61] When citing a case, include its neutral citation, if it Citation to Case law [61] When citing a case, include its neutral citation, if it citation, if it has one.
If you add parallel citations place them after the neutral citation, which should immediately follow the case name.
If a decision has a neutral citation, it must be used.
The system only works if every decision receives a neutral citation.
Although I would have been on board if they'd said: «just cite in a way that everyone knows what you are citing to, with a preference for neutral citations, and beyond that don't worry about it.»
I'll make a bold statement: I'm very very close to giving up all those parallel citations if the case has a neutral citation.
Along with the neutral citation, one print report must be cited if 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.
Sam Glover: Well maybe in another 20 years we can get back together and see if vendor - neutral citation has finally come around.
It would be a positive development if we were all moving towards using the neutral citation as the default citation.
If a judgment is published in a reporter, list the neutral citation first, followed by the printed reporter.
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.
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.