What is the prospect of print volumes of caselaw being produced
without headnotes?
British Columbia Trial Cases, started 1999, includes 7,663 cases with headnotes, plus 39,911 cases
without headnotes.
British Columbia Appeal Cases, started 1991, includes 12,543 cases with headnotes, plus 3,369 cases
without headnotes.
Headnotes are at risk because the full text of legal decisions
without headnotes are now available free on the Internet from multiple sources.
Free access is limited to the judgment
without a headnote.
Not exact matches
So governments are now publishing judicial decisions, but mostly
without any summaries or
headnotes.
Headnote was built for firms just like yours - now you can easily add compliant, affordable online payment to your firm's software suite
without changing any internal processes or systems.
I have often wondered how young lawyers will understand legal research
without benefit of taxonomical hierarchies, digests and
headnotes.
For example, some practice points, some damage awards, some maintenance awards, etc., are reported in the N.B.R. (2d) with a
headnote but
without a translation.