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This is a list of abbreviations used in law and legal documents. It is common practice in legal documents to cite other publications by using standard abbreviations for the title of each source. Abbreviations may also be found for common words or legal phrases.
It is ranked by John Doyle at the Washington and Lee University School of Law as tied for 35th-ranked law journal outside of the United States (including both student and faculty journals). [2] According to an article it published in 2001, at that time the journal had been cited in 22 cases decided by the Supreme Court of Canada. [3]
Woodroffe-Hedley v Cuthbertson, also known as Hedley v Cuthbertson (Unreported, 20 June 1997) was an English tort law case heard in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court. The claimant was a six-year-old child whose father had died in a mountaineering accident; the defendant was the victim's mountain guide who was found guilty of negligence.
An unpublished opinion is a decision of a court that is not available for citation as precedent because the court deems the case to have insufficient precedential value. In the system of common law, each judicial decision becomes part of the body of law used in future decisions. However, some courts reserve certain decisions, leaving them ...
In the United States, it was estimated in 1989 that 40% of the AIDS cases in South Carolina went unreported, largely due to social stigma in the early days of the epidemic. [27] In 2008, out of 2,460 deaths from AIDS-related illnesses during a six-year period in Washington, DC, an estimated of 1,337 had not been reported. [28]
As of its establishment, the University of Toronto Law Journal was released annually each February. [6] In 1955, F.E. La Brie was named the journal's editor-in-chief. [7] Ronald St. John Macdonald edited the review before leaving the University of Toronto for Dalhousie University in the early 1970s. [8] As of 2021, the editor is David Dyzenhaus ...
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 University of Toronto Faculty of Law was established as a teaching faculty in 1887 pursuant to the University Federation Act, [11] which was proclaimed into force in 1889. [12] An earlier faculty of law had existed at King's College between 1843 and 1854, but was abolished by an Act of Parliament in 1853. [12]