Electronic Access to the McGill Guide
- McGill Guide / Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (10th ed.) This link opens in a new window
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The McGill Guide is available through the database WestLaw Next Canada. This Library resource is available to all students, faculty, and staff at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Print Access to the McGill Guide
Canadian guide to uniform legal citation (The McGill Guide)Call Number: KE259 .C35 2023ISBN: 9780779899531Publication Date: 2023For those that work best in print, a copy of the McGill guide is available through print reserve. A second reference copy is also available at the Law Library desk and where can also ask questions about how best to apply citation rules.
Citing Court Documents
Please see the McGill Guide for more general information on citation rules.
Section E - 3.16 of the McGill Guide covers citation to Arguments and Evidentiary Documents.
Citation format:
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Full citation | (document type, party/author | pinpoint). |
This requires some knowledge of the document being cited. You are asked to include the full case citation, and the document type (such as factum, oral argument, testimony, desposition, affidavit, subpoena, memoranda, transcript, etc.) followed by the word used to refer to the author of the content of the document or relevant party (e.g. Appellant, Respondent), followed by the pinpoint. A short form can be established following the first reference to the document (e.g., Factum of the Appellant at para 16 [FOA]).
Here are some examples (for more, please see the McGill Guide):
Reference re Secession of Quebec, 1998 CanLII 793 (SCC) (Factum, Appellant at para 16).
Tremblay v Daigle, [1989] 2 SCR 530, 1989 CanLII 33 (SCC) (Affidavit, Daigle).
Legal Citation
For more on Legal Citation, please see the library's Legal Citation Research Guide.