Case Markup 

The Editors carry out the following tasks when marking up a case on JustCite:

  • Checking for lower hearings of the same case and, where relevant, for other reports of the case.
  • This helps to avoid data duplication, and ensures that a case’s appellate history is contained within a single record.

  • Setting the subject terms.
  • Subject terms are taken from the catchwords in the headnote of the case report

  • Setting the jurisdiction.
  • JustCite uses its own taxonomy of supranational groupings, nations and sub-national component jurisdictions.

  • Adding appellate status where relevant.
  • Standardising the case name according to our Case Naming Conventions
  • Adding crosslinks to legislative provisions, other cases and journal articles, and determining the nature of the link relationship according to our Case Relationship Definitions and other markup policies.