Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#1711 closed enhancement (fixed)

[patch] Display Civil Law case information

Reported by: fbennett Owned by: dstillman
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: interface Version: 2.1
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Cites to Common Law cases include a case name. Cites to Civil Law cases sometimes do, but mostly do not. The two types of citation have different formatting conventions, which must be covered by any full-service legal style.

In discussions with civil lawyers, we have hit a solution of putting the (optional) case nickname for Civil Law cases in the shortTitle field. In this case, the title will test "false", although it may have a working short-form. Users seem happy with this solution.

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9823/french-law-cases-droit-francais-decisions-arrets-jugements/#Comment_67397

In the current UI, this leaves the Title column blank, which makes editing difficult. The attached patch fills the empty title string of a Civil Law case with appropriate details.

With this change, I think we're ready to go for basic legal support in both realms, which is kind of exciting.

Attachments (1)

display_civil_case_info.patch (1.3 KB) - added by fbennett 6 years ago.

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Change History (3)

Changed 6 years ago by fbennett

comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by fbennett

  • Summary changed from Display Civil Law case information to [patch] Display Civil Law case information

comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by dstillman

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

(In [8146]) Closes #1711, [patch] Display Civil Law case information

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