This quote may not sound relevant to creating a good text, but it essentially means that simplicity is greater than complexity when it comes to any form of arts or crafts. The same principle applies to legal advice – simplicity is key. Some government agencies use certain unofficial journalists who specialize in the types of cases that may be critical to the cases before them (and require lawyers and agents before them to quote). For example, the United States Patent and Trademark Office requires citation from the United States Patents Quarterly (USPQ) for patent and trademark practice. [19] [20] Think about the target audience of your memo or report. Typically, this type of report is written for a lawyer (or law school professor) who may have extensive knowledge of the law in the relevant field, but is not as familiar with the facts of the specific case. The usual outline and sections are designed to help the reader focus on the most important information without being distracted by irrelevant details. The presentation of the facts is the part of the report that explains why exactly your case needs to go to court. If you plan to present the text to a judge, you may want to present the questions from your client`s perspective (while maintaining neutral language, of course).
You should not discuss the details of your case or present facts that have nothing to do with legal documents. As with the presentation of legal questions, your answer to them must be justified by law. Otherwise, your legal opinion will become nothing more than a glorified opinion piece. Periodical volumes of books containing reports on the decisions and opinions of various tribunals are sometimes called reports, but more often they are called journalists. Later, two volumes of the Kenya-Appeal Reports for the period 1982-1992 were published by Butterworths, a private body, under the direction of The Hon Chief Justice A.R.W. Hancox (hence the pseudonym “Hancox Reports”), assisted by a seven-member editorial board. These reports, as their name suggests, contained only the decisions of the Court of Appeal of Kenya selected during this period. The remaining keywords briefly describe the subject matter of this case. They indicate in quotation marks all words or expressions that the court has defined and list all legal provisions or other national or international laws, conventions, etc. that the court has considered and decided. The following section should contain facts relevant to the case.
This data explains to the reader why the court is considering the application. If it is an informative report and you inform the lawyer of the facts for an objective assessment, simply provide the data directly. If the report is compelling, you need to provide the facts from your client`s perspective. The Commonwealth Law Reports are the authoritative reports on decisions of the High Court of Australia. The Federal Court Reports are the authoritative compendium of decisions of the Federal Court of Australia (including the Full Court). Each state and territory has a number of authoritative reports, for example: The Victorian Reports, on the decisions of the higher courts of the state or territory. You need to present the facts in such a way that the person reading this report can see why this matter is before the courts. If you want to write an effective report to the judge, it is very important to explain the problem from your client`s point of view. But if you recommend it to a lawyer who just wants your opinion on a case, then be direct. Retaining only the relevant facts, limiting them to those relating to points of law, must be decided by the judge. While maritime affairs often have a contractual or tortious element and are reported in standard volumes, the standard source for maritime affairs is Lloyd`s Law Reports, which covers issues such as maritime issues such as the carriage of goods by sea, international trade law and admiralty law. An official or formal statement of the facts or proceedings.
Liability to; to be correlated; to transmit or transmit information; the written statement of such an account. For example, one type of report is the formal written statement made to the court by a prothonotary, clerk or adjudicator who has been hired to investigate a particular matter for the court. Sometimes the report of a public official is distinguished from a report. A report usually reveals something that the public servant did or observed, while a report shows the results of an investigation into matters beyond the public servant`s personal knowledge. The most important and important element of a full-text legislative report is the judgment(s) rendered in the case. The version used in the report is based on an authorized transcript approved by the court as an accurate record. However, it is then subjected to a number of machining processes. First, the journalist examines all references and citations from other cases, manuals, laws and other documents published in the judgment. The wording of the judgment is aligned with the ICLR`s “house style” in terms of dates, certain types of accepted abbreviations, quotations, etc. The accuracy and consistency of non-cash references such as data, monetary amounts, etc.
shall be checked. More fundamentally, it must contain an explanation of the legal principle decided in the case. The statement should ideally be expressed as a rule or statement that can be applied in later cases, even if the facts are not the same. It is usually taken from the words actually used by judges, but it can be somehow compressed and inserted into reported speech rather than quoted speech. The most developed form of such a declaration is found in the modern title of a full-text legislative report published by the ICLR. However, questions remain about the need for a uniform and convenient citation format for cases published on the Internet (compared to the standard volume and page number used for printed legal reports). [5] In addition, the departure from the traditional “official-commercial” printed statement model raises questions about the accuracy, authority and reliability of Internet jurisprudence. [5] The answer to these questions is largely determined by the evolution of government information policy and the degree of influence of commercial database providers in global legal information markets. If the report contains a summary of the defence counsel`s submissions, it shall be indicated after the name(s) of counsel who made them. The summary is based on the oral observations actually presented by the journalist to the court at the hearing in which he personally participated, supplemented by the skeletal arguments. In some cases, it may be a little more than a simple proposal that was included in an accompanying note in older reports.
However, in most modern reports, the note will take a two-page format, the first part describing the relevant facts and issues, and the second setting out the legal concepts in one or more separate paragraphs that continue after the word “hero”. This structure allows readers to quickly and easily see what it was about and identify the legal issue that has been decided. In the 1880s, the West Publishing Company launched its National Reporter System (NRS), a family of regional journalists, each of whom collects decisions from selected state courts in a specific group of states. [12] [15] The National Reporter System is now the dominant unofficial reporting system in the United States, and 21 states have hired their own official reporters and certified the corresponding Western Regional Reporter as their official reporter. [16] West and its rival LexisNexis both publish unofficial journalists of U.S. Supreme Court opinions. West also publishes the West American Digest System to help lawyers find cases in its reporters. Western abstracts and journalists have always presented a “key numbering system” with a unique number for every conceivable legal topic.
Each province in Canada has an official series of rapporteurs, the decisions of the highest courts and courts of appeal of the respective province. Federal courts, such as the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Tax Court, each have their own series of journalists. The Supreme Court of Canada has its own series of journalists, the Supreme Court Reports. The Laws of Kenya Collection are the official legal reports of the Republic of Kenya, which may be cited in proceedings before any court in Kenya (section 21 of the Act). Law Report, at common law, published an account of a court decision cited by lawyers and judges for its use as a precedent in subsequent cases. The report of a decision usually contains the title of the case, a statement of the facts giving rise to the dispute and its history before the court. It then reflects the opinion of the court and ends with the judgment of the court, which confirms or reverses the judgment of the next court. The report on a modern decision is usually preceded by an executive summary of the opinion, called the guiding principle, which indicates the points decided. Before writing a legal report or brief, familiarize yourself with the right format and organizational rules to help your reader understand your arguments and arguments. A legal note should set out the issues in the case, the facts, the law applicable to the case, an analysis of the law applied to the facts, and a conclusion. In addition, legal opinions on specific topics have been published. Ten volumes of the Reports of Laws of the Court of Revision covering the period 1953-1962 and including the decisions of the African Court of Revision on customary law have been published by the Government Printing Office.