LAWS 2908 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Book Design, Headnote, Ratio Decidendi
11 Mar 2018
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The front matter" or file information along with the research and indexing tools. Court, level of court, names of the judge(s) Persons after the main person are interveners in the case. Case name gives the name of the case, or the style of cause". You will need it to complete the citation. Catch words are essentially topics dealt with in the case. The headnote will indicate a bunch of stuff about the case. The front matter has no legal authority, and can"t be cited or relied upon in. The start of the case is indicated by either the judges name, or by the start of paragraph numbers. There is no universal pattern, and there are differences (by court level) and fashions of the times. Opening can be quick and easy, or it can be super wordy. However, there can kind of be a usual structure of the text - in the decision.
