Legal Research

Hot TOCs in CanLII

By Simon Fodden

I don’t know how long this has been going on, but some courts are sending judgments to CanLII with hyperlinked tables of contents. Plain old text TOCs are nothing new, of course: long — long, long. . . — judgments pretty much demand them. But courts seem to have discovered that, because they create and submit their judgments to CanLII in MS Word format, it’s fairly easy to construct a hyperlinked table of contents.

A search for [table of contents] turns up recent “hot” TOCs from Newfoundland and Labrador, British Columbia, and Ontario.

This is, of course, a welcome trend, if trend it is. Now all we need in our open access judgments is hyperlinks back to the TOC from within the document, links to each paragraph to enable precise citation, hyperlinked citations . . . and a few other features besides.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).