For decisions of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released on or after January 1, 2010, parties should provide
the neutral citation number (e.g. 2010 ONSC 1) in addition to the other required citations.
Not exact matches
The problem with the
neutral «
citation» is that it could refer to any
number of published versions of the decision or the original judgment itself.
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..
For a case law database, «comprehensive» means that within our continuous coverage (which is clearly stated) we have all the judgments which can be identified by one of these four approaches: — The court website (when applicable); — The
neutral citation (some courts use a strict sequence of
numbers); — The
citations found in the Reflex set of 33 report series; — The
citations found in CanLII documents.
-- CLIC developed recommendations for uniform case
citations through standardizing court docket
numbers across Canada (the forerunner of today's «
neutral citation»).
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.
Effective January 1, 1996, the Supreme Court of South Dakota began attaching medium
neutral citations and paragraph
numbers to its opinions.
He proposed a universal
citation style similar to the modern
neutral legal
citation, where opinions issuing from courts would have official sequential
numbers, independent from any trademark or corporate name given by a private law report publisher.