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

[<Scott.Hudson@flatironssolutions.com>]

Good question. Thanks for finding this info, John! I, too, want to make
sure any markup we provide will work world-wide, not just in the USA. 

John, Dave, could you take a stab at using this format to set up some
examples from any legal cases in countries that you might be familiar
with? 

The big question: how do you determine what the court designation is?


Best regards,

Scott Hudson 
Flatirons Solutions Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.pawson@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 6:20 AM
To: Hanratty, John (LNG-LON)
Cc: docbook-publishers@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-publishers] Legal citations (I'll stop after
this!)

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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