Sentences with phrase «of neutral citations»

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).

This does not include any restriction on the use of neutral citations used by PacLII, whether or not developed by PacLII.

Following on from this (from 2002) came the use of neutral citations where by each case was given a neutral citation to identify it.

For the view from Manitoba, here is a link to the Practice Direction from the Manitoba Court of Appeal regarding the use of neutral citations in documents filed with the Court.

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.

I'm all for the use of the neutral citation, exclusively, when a neutral citation is available.

The use of the neutral citation is one smarter way.

Importantly, it recognizes the supremacy and sufficiency of the neutral citation, noting that «[a] dditional (parallel) citations are optional.»

The true revolution in citation practice was the development of the neutral citation; this is where we find uniformity and clarity.

This compares very favourably with the Courts» average publication timelines, from the assignment of a neutral citation to posting on the Court website, of one to two days.

Is it not misleading to students new to legal research who do not understand the limited utility and relative newness of the neutral citation?

In the case of the neutral citation, the argument has been persuasively made that the Guide was right to look to the future when it advocated the use of the neutral citation well before its time.

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.

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.

The recently released British Columbia Court of Appeal's practice directive on the Citation of Authorities (Civil & Criminal Practice Directive, 30 May 2013) is a strong statement in favor of the precedence of the Neutral Citation standard for case law, which allows for a significant move towards the simplification of most citation practices..

Not exact matches

I would love to see your citations in support of this: «it is almost unanimous that it has been historically either highly beneficial or neutral.

A Standardized Data / Markup Model to Support Neutral Citation of Court Cases, Legislation, and Regulations includes references from 1995 up to and including mid-January 2014.

Or maybe CANLII needs to revisit whenever technology makes it possible to make a neutral citation, «official» and final which of course, nearly suggests PDF version to get around the pagination and even paragraph identifiers.

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 document accompanying the neutral citation (i.e. the PDF or paper form of the judgment) is usually subject to editorial revision before being published in the official reporter.

The neutral citation is essentially the birth certificate of the judgment and exists before anything is reported or made available online.

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.

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..

CLEBC style is to use the neutral citation in the text, but include all parallel cites in the table of cases.

The neutral citation probably was conceived with the idea of bringing some order to the proliferating «citation» systems in mind: OJ, QJ, SCJ, CarswellOnt, AZ, JE, Lexis, ad infinitum.

I completely disagree with arbitrarily changing a citation to strip it of periods so that it looks consistent with a neutral citation.

Specifically it directs the reader to refer to the Neutral Citation, then to print reporters that are increasingly available only in databases, and only last and seemingly least to the primary sources of case law — the online services of Lexis, Carswell, Azumet and Canlii.

For any case for which no neutral citation is available, a print citation provides a common point of reference from which a user or automated software can determine which case is being referenced.

CanLII has created its own citation system to address certain historical limitations of the system, but CanLII cites follow the neutral citation very closely.

in scanned PDF format, all freely available on AustLII, but also in developing a uniform and vendor - neutral system of legal citation for them.

In March 2010, Ivan Mokanov of the Université de Montréal, wrote on VoxPopuLII about neutral citation practices in Canada.

He pointed out that «nearly three quarters of citations to recent case law [in Canada] use the neutral citation».

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.

The bulk of the article is devoted to developing neutral citation for state laws, but one detail attracted my attention.

In contrast to Canada, where neutral citation has been widely adopted for caselaw, the practice is still not very widespread South of the border:

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.

She discusses the spread of universal, or vendor - neutral, citation in the United States.

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.

I think of law's parallel cites to judgments: wouldn't it be handy to have the neutral citation, e.g., point somehow to all of the reports, online and off; and so forth.

I'm compiling a list of Supreme Court decisions and one of the data I'm collecting for each is the neutral citation.

And one of the big issues had to do with the vendor - neutral citation.

The same is true of case citations, I feel, I agree there should be a generic neutral case name and citation, and a unique numeric identifier, so that case can be found easily.

Adopted by all courts and many tribunals, the neutral citation allows for the unique identification of a decision, as soon as it is released and regardless of the specific database or report in which it is published.

There are two neutral citation sources for first instance family judgments below the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal (each of which report their own family cases): judgements of Family Division judges (EWHC (Fam)-RRB- and of other family court cases (EWFC).

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.

The best part of this guide is that it includes a jurisdiction table that shows dates when neutral citation was implemented.

It seems to me that CanLII ought to be able to entail good alternative citations into its count of cases that cite X, including Quicklaw citations; and I suspect that with a bit of work it should be able to catch the messed up neutral citations, perhaps by running a double - check against the case names.

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.

Is it just that particular format of citation, for example (the neutral citation)?