Selecting Cases for Print Case Law Reporters
There has been much discussion on SLAW on the state of print case law reporters in the age of online judgments (click here for some of these posts).
For other research I am conducting, I obtained a photocopy of an article by Paul Perell (now a judge) from 1991 in the Legal Research Update quarterly newsletter (circa 1986 to 1996, RIP) called “Selecting Cases for the Ontario Reports.” In that article, (the now Mr. Justice) Perell lists out the six criteria for case selection as suggested by a Butterworths editor in England:
. . . [more]A case will be reported if:
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