There can be plenty of brackets and parentheses in legal citations. Yet, a case citation is incomplete unless it also includes the year of the decision. If a decision has a neutral citation, the year is already part of the citation and there are no brackets or parentheses to worry about, e.g., 2011 ONCA 55. That’s the easy part. Continue reading “Square or Round?”
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What’s Our Most Requested Case?
You may know that the Great Library offers a document delivery service. But did you know that for years the most requested case has been the English case Browne v Dunn (1893), 6 R 67 (HL)? Continue reading “What’s Our Most Requested Case?”
Be Kind to Your Reader (Why Good Citation is Important)
This blog post isn’t about how to do citations, it’s about why it’s important to provide good citations for the readers of your documents. The library staff’s philosophy is to make it easy for people to look up the case, article, book or statute to which you’ve referred, and to use a consistent style of citation throughout. Continue reading “Be Kind to Your Reader (Why Good Citation is Important)”
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