Re: [docbook-publishers] Legal citations (I'll stop after this!)

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

On 18/02/2008, Hanratty, John (LNG-LON) <john.hanratty@lexisnexis.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Yes, there's a lot of trumpet-blowing on the site, but the idea of a
> "neutral cite" is one where the reporter series does not form part of
> the cite, i.e. there's no reference to a volume or issue number. These
> guys are, I suppose merely substituting their URL for the reportercite,
> and I'm not suggesting we incorporate any URLs in our citation model,
> but the idea of a neutral cite is useful and widespread. The second
> resource I circulated (which the first led me to) is "cleaner".
> http://www.aallnet.org/committee/citation/ucg/index.html
>
> As you can see, there is no reporter/series number, hence "neutral"
> cite.


Anyone have any idea if this 'format'
case
name
year
court designation
opinion
paragraph

is anything like universal/applicable wider than the US?

E.g. could I mix up
Peterborough City Court(Canada)
with Peterborough City Court (UK)
and finish up with the same citation reference?

This does appear flexible. Just wondered how flexible?

regards




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