Giant Step for Neutral Citation

This item is from Dominic Jaar’s post on today’s Slaw:

Concluding twelve years of efforts from the members of the Judicial Technology Advisory Committee of the Canadian Judicial Council (JTAC), Justice Fran Kiteley, from the Ontario Superior Court and a former JTAC member, rendered the first judgment using exclusively neutral citation in R. v. Andrew Del Riccio, 2010 ONSC 1.  Congratulations!

Here are two documents, produced under JTAC’s auspices, relating to this great initiative:

• Canadian Citation Committee. The Preparation, Citation and Distribution of Canadian Decisions (2009).
• Canadian Judicial Council. Practice Direction: Use of Neutral Citation for Case Law (2008).