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Legal Citation: Quick Citation Reference Information

Statutes

Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c C-46.

Name of Act = Criminal Code

Jurisdiction = RSC (Revised Statutes of Canada)

Year = in this case, the year of the revision, 1985.

Chapter # = the chapter in the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, printed version.

 

Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c C-46, (QL).

Where located, if not an official version = Quicklaw

 

Parental Responsibility Act, SBC 2001, c 45.

Name of Act = Parental Responsibility Act

Jurisdiction = (Sessional) Statutes of B.C.

Year = in this case, the year of the sessional volume.

Chapter # = the chapter in the sessional volume for 2001.

 

Parental Responsibility Act, SBC 2001, c 45, (BCLaws).

Where located, if not an official version = BC Laws

Case Law

R v Simmons (1984), 7 DLR (4th) 719 (Ont CA).

Name of case (style of cause) = R v Simmons

Year of decision = 1984 (Note that the comma follows the year of the decision.)

Volume # = Volume 7 (of the 4th series of the Dominion Law Reports)

Abbreviated title of the reporting service = DLR (Dominion Law Reports)

Page # = 719

Court abbreviation = (Ont CA)

 

R v Coulson, 2003 BCSC 144.

Year of publication of decision = 2003

Court identifier = BCSC (British Columbia Supreme Court)

Case number = 144