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If a case is not reported in the Law Reports, the next best report is the Weekly Law Reports (e.g. [2002] 2 WLR 1315), and then the All England Reports (e.g., [2002] 2 All ER 865). In some situations, it might be preferable to cite a specialist series, e.g., Rottman v MPC was also cited in the Human Rights Law Reports, at [2002] HRLR 32.
The ALWD Guide to Legal Citation is published as a spiral-bound book as well as an online version. It primarily competes with the Bluebook style, a system developed and still updated by law reviews students at Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia. Citations in the two formats are essentially identical. [1]
In American law, the American Law Reports are a resource used by American lawyers to find a variety of sources relating to specific legal rules, doctrines, or principles. It has been published since 1919, originally by Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, and currently by West (a business unit of Thomson Reuters) and remains an important tool for legal research.
AD - South African Law Reports, Appellate Division ad., ads., adsm. — ad sectam (Latin), at the suit of. Used in colonial and Federal Era American cases when the defendant is listed first; e.g., "John Doe v.
When a case has been published in an official reporter (e.g. the United States Reports), editors should cite the version of the case that appears in the official reporter. Case citations. Case names are italicised, as in the Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp. article. (Case citation or law report information is presented in normal font.) Citation signals
Official law reports or reporters are those authorized for publication by statute or other governmental ruling. [6] Governments designate law reports as official to provide an authoritative, consistent, and authentic statement of a jurisdiction's primary law. Official case law publishing may be carried out by a government agency, or by a ...
The shortest citation should include the volume of the reporter, the reporter abbreviation, and the new pincite. A slightly less-short citation should also include the short name of the case, in italics. For example, for a short citation to County of Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State (see above), either of the following would ...
This citation is very similar to the citation to the Court's opinion. The two key differences are the pin cite, page 527 here, and the addition of the dissenting justices' names in a parenthetical following the date of the case. Legal citation in general and case citation in particular can become much more complicated.