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Help With Court Abbreviations
This just in from “an avid reader of Slaw”:
I am in desperate need of some Slaw collective wisdom. Is there any comprehensive list of Canadian courts abbreviations used in neutral citation. The standard on Lexum’s website list are suggestions (which have been adopted by those courts), but I am looking for a complete list. Australia and England provide comprehensive lists for their court abbreviations for neutral citation. (It is also weird that there is no
updated information as to which courts have adopted neutral citation and which have not.)
C’mon gang. Avid readers deserve help.
The page you refer to (which, I think, is at http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/ccc-ccr/neutr/index_en.html) is the only one I know about, other than the resources indicated at the bottom of the page. I wonder if any difficulty in locating a complete list is attributable to the fact that not all courts (e.g. Ontario superior courts) do not use the standard? Other Slawyers (or avid or non-avid readers) may correct me if I am missing something.
Appendix A and Appendix F of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (aka McGill Guide), should do the trick.
Why isn’t the McGill Guide on the web? See http://www.slaw.ca/2005/12/20/legal-citation-online/