As with the Canadian flag debate of years
past, the matter will quickly resolve itself as periods are dropped generally
by other
legal publishers and
by the
legal profession.
As has worked in the
past, when the neutral citation system for Canadian courts was created and adopted, and equally a uniform naming convention for Canadian judgments, I would suggest the work be entrusted to a core working group supported
by an advisory board representative of all the affected communities: the Courts (and the Canadian Judicial Council), the law
publishers both print and digital (especially CanLII and Lexum),
legal writing and research faculty, law librarians and practising lawyers from both our French and English
legal communities.