Not exact matches
AustLII is
doing just that with the Australasian Colonial Legal History Library: As cases are added to the Library, they are provided with a
neutral citation.
This explains the primacy of the
neutral citation as well, since essentially all cases with a
neutral citation are available on CanLII — although this
does not explain the disfavouring of the CanLII
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.»
Print
citations, on the other hand, are publically accessible, work well in all of the databases, and are database -
neutral such that they
do not lock subsequent readers into using particular database or another.
And one of the big issues had to
do with the vendor -
neutral citation.
however, in the grand scheme of things, court decisions which
do not include a
neutral citation will tend to become less available and thus less cited.
I worked with the authors (who were law postgrads) on AGLC for the 1st and 2nd editions, and the aim of it was to address the newly emerging e-resources — Australia being the first place to have
neutral citations endorsed by its High Court in 1995, and because the Blue Book
did not deal with Australian materials.
Is it not misleading to students new to legal research who
do not understand the limited utility and relative newness of the
neutral citation?
This last one goes too far [alert: grumpy person now about to complain]: I am all for simplicity and am a huge fan of
neutral citation, but unless you advocate the removal of all periods (such as the end of sentences), it doesn't make sense to remove the periods after a person's initials — Professor Waddams is Stephen Michael as represented by his initials.
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.
This
does not include any restriction on the use of
neutral citations used by PacLII, whether or not developed by PacLII.
So far as I know, there are no practice directions on this subject in Manitoba (though the Court of Appeal
does have a practice direction on the use of
neutral citations).
Moreover, setting Oklahoma apart from other
neutral citation pioneers, the judiciary staff applied
neutral citations retrospectively to all prior decisions rendered during the print era, placed copies of them online as well, and encouraged but
did not require that they also be cited by the new system.