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

["Hanratty, John (LNG-LON)" <john.hanratty@lexisnexis.co.uk>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Hanratty, John (LNG-LON) 
Sent: 18 February 2008 14:15
To: 'Dave Pawson'
Subject: RE: [docbook-publishers] Legal citations (I'll stop after
this!)

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

Ideally those courts would each have a unique "court designation" -
certainly a publisher would make sure they created one even if the
bodies themselves hadn't taken the trouble to ensure uniqueness, most
likely by adding an ISO country code to the court designation. So IMO we
probably don't need to worry, as long as we provide the mechanism to
mark up the court designation as such.

John Hanratty
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Pawson [mailto:dave.pawson@gmail.com]
Sent: 18 February 2008 13:20
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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