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Academic Success Program Legal Citation Workshop

Academic Success Program Legal Citation Workshop. By Sharon Wang January 23, 2012. Why cite?. Give credit to others for their intellectual creation Demonstrate the scope and quality of your research Support your argument by providing authoritative sources

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Academic Success Program Legal Citation Workshop

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  1. Academic Success ProgramLegal Citation Workshop By Sharon Wang January 23, 2012

  2. Why cite? • Give credit to others for their intellectual creation • Demonstrate the scope and quality of your research • Support your argument by providing authoritative sources • Provide references to locate the information for readers …and yourself

  3. How to cite? • McGill Guide to Uniform Legal Citation • Legislation • Jurisprudence • Government Documents • International Materials • Secondary Sources and Other Materials • The Blue Book: a uniform system of citation: KF245 B58 2010 • Other citation guides

  4. Legislation • Core information in a Statute citation • Title • Type of Statutes • Jurisdiction • Date – Version of law • Chapter Number – where to find it? • Pinpoint

  5. Legislation • Federal Statutes: Interpretation Act, RSC 1985, c I-21, s 2. An Act to Amend the Judges Act, SC 2009, c 19. • Provincial Statutes: Liquor Control Act, RSO 1990, c L.18. Holocaust Memorial Day Act, SBC 2000, c 3.

  6. Statutes – Additional Information • Emergency Measures Act, SM 1987, c 11, as amended by SM 1997, c 28. • An Act to Amend the Labour Standards Act, SNWT 1999, c 18, amending RSNWT 1988, c L-1.

  7. Jurisprudence • Core information in a case citation: • Name of case • Level of court • Jurisdiction • Decision date • Source – where can this decision be found?

  8. Jurisprudence • Neutral citation (cite to the document) • R v Kerr, 2004 SCC 44 (CanLII). • Ireland v Ireland, 2011 ONCA 623 (QL). • R v Ashby, 2011 BCSC 1334 (WL Can)

  9. Jurisprudence • Parallel citations (cite to the source) • R v Latimer, 2001 SCC 1, [2001] 1 SCR 3, 193 DLR (4th) 577. • R v Kerr, [2004] 2 SCR 371, 240 DLR (4th) 257, 322 NR 91, [2004] 9 WWR 75, 28 Alta.LR (4th) 1, 354 AR 114, 185 CCC (3d) 1, 20 CR (6th) 199, 61 WCB (2d) 69.

  10. Jurisprudence • Reported Cases v. Unreported cases • Underwood v. Underwood, 1995 CarswellOnt 88 (WL Can) (Ont Gen Div). • R. v. Crete (18 April 1991), Ottawa 97/03674 (Ont. Prov. Ct.).

  11. Jurisprudence- Court • When to provide supplementary information in the citation? • R v Byfield, 74 OR (3rd) 206. • R v Byfield (2005), 74 OR (3rd) 206 (CA). • R v. Macki, 199 DLR (4th) 178. • R v Macki (2001), 199 DLR (4th) 178 (BCSC). • R v Duguay, 113 OAC 384. • R v Duguay (1998), 113 OAC 384. • Kellogg v Black Ridge Gold Ltd, 1993 CanLII 2848. • Kellogg v Black Ridge Gold Ltd, 1993 CanLII 2848 (NWT SC).

  12. Secondary Sources • Books • Margaret Somerville, Death Talk: The Case against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001) at 78. • Unpublished Manuscript • Alain Supiot, Le Nouvel age du droit social Seduil [forthcoming in October 2009].

  13. Secondary Sources – articles • Articles • David Weissbrodt & Muria Kruger, “Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights” (2003) 97 AJIL 901, at 907. • E-journals / Books • Kristin Savell, “Human Rights in the Age of Technology: Can Law Reign in the Medical Juggernaut?” (2001) 23 Sydney L Rev 423 (Lexis). • Grant Yang, “Stop the Abuse of Gmail!”, online: (2005) Duke L & Tech Rev 14 at para 5 <http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/>.

  14. Legal Abbreviation • McGill Guide Appendix • MacEllven, Dauglass T. Legal Research Handbook (KF 240 M24 2003) Appendix • Liste des abréviations juridiques (Canadian) • Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations (International) • Bieber’s dictionary of legal abbreviations: a reference guide for attorneys, legal secretaries, paralegals, and law students (KF 246 B46 2001)

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