The Times Online Style Guide has a section on the courts and lawyers that I remember using once with students. It’s not binding, of course, just a house style guide, and it relates only to Britain, but it’s interesting to look at.
It doesn’t know that the Divisional Court of the Queen’s Bench Division is now called the Administrative Court when dealing with judicial review, but then it may not have been updated since 2000.

bq. Court of Appeal judges are Lords Justices of Appeal. Use Lord Justice Bean throughout, or out of court context, Sir John Bean. Note Lady Justice Butler-Sloss, although now she is President of the Family Division, she is styled Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss. Also Lord Justice Brooke (not Brook).

She did call herself Lord Justice for a while, but eventually she gave in to common sense. Continue reading →

The Times Online Style Guide has a section on the courts and lawyers that I remember using once with students. It’s not binding, of course, just a house style guide, and it relates only to Britain, but it’s interesting to look at.
It doesn’t know that the Divisional Court of the Queen’s Bench Division is now called the Administrative Court when dealing with judicial review, but then it may not have been updated since 2000.

bq. Court of Appeal judges are Lords Justices of Appeal. Use Lord Justice Bean throughout, or out of court context, Sir John Bean. Note Lady Justice Butler-Sloss, although now she is President of the Family Division, she is styled Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss. Also Lord Justice Brooke (not Brook).

She did call herself Lord Justice for a while, but eventually she gave in to common sense. Continue reading →

The Crown still owns royal fish (whales and sturgeons caught within territorial waters) and swans, and has rights to treasure (what used to be called treasure trove). This site on law for sixth forms, defining theft, summarizes it.

A bizarre report on the declining numbers of swans puts it down to their being caught and barbecued by asylum seekers. I suspect this is an exaggerated claim, projected from the two men caught in the act. The (London) Evening Standard reports. Via Ben Hammersley.

Of course, swans are counted every July, at least on the Thames, in the swan upping procedure. Are their numbers really so reduced? Continue reading →

The Crown still owns royal fish (whales and sturgeons caught within territorial waters) and swans, and has rights to treasure (what used to be called treasure trove). This site on law for sixth forms, defining theft, summarizes it.

A bizarre report on the declining numbers of swans puts it down to their being caught and barbecued by asylum seekers. I suspect this is an exaggerated claim, projected from the two men caught in the act. The (London) Evening Standard reports. Via Ben Hammersley.

Of course, swans are counted every July, at least on the Thames, in the swan upping procedure. Are their numbers really so reduced? Continue reading →

Sua sponte reports that there is a California Manual of Style, but actually in a law firm everything is done by macros.

bq. And a good thing, too: the format is just different enough from ALWD to be pesky, gnatlike. Where you’d expect
People v. Price, 4 Cal.App.3d 941 (1970)
doin’ it California Style yields
People v. Price (1970), 4 Cal.App.3d 941 Continue reading →

Sua sponte reports that there is a California Manual of Style, but actually in a law firm everything is done by macros.

bq. And a good thing, too: the format is just different enough from ALWD to be pesky, gnatlike. Where you’d expect
People v. Price, 4 Cal.App.3d 941 (1970)
doin’ it California Style yields
People v. Price (1970), 4 Cal.App.3d 941 Continue reading →