CASE PRESENTATIONS

Headers and footers

The links identified above are provided at the outset and at the conclusion of each case presentation. They are inserted to automatically open up the remainder of the database to case researchers.

Case history

In many instances we have presentations on upper court or lower court rulings on a case. Links to these presentations are provided.

Case abstracts

Wherever UNCITRAL has provided a CLOUT abstract, it is presented. Other abstracts are also presented. However, many case presentation are not yet accompanied by abstracts.

Key CISG provisions at issue

Each article cited on the line of the case presentation entitled "Key CISG provisions at issue" is linked to an annotated text of the article. Annotations provide electronic access to:

• Travaux préparatoires: on-line access to the legislative history of the article at the 1980 Vienna Diplomatic Conference; the Secretariat Commentary on the article; and uniform law antecedents to the article (CISG texts matched to the article)

• Jurisprudence: on-line access to presentations of other cases that cite the article (each annotated text contains a case "button" that conducts an electronic search of all case presentations in the database for references to the article)

• Doctrine: on-line access to citations to scholarly writings on subjects addressed the article; texts of commentaries drawn from an expanding on-line collection of law journal articles; and, in many cases, relevant material on the UNIDROIT Principles

Classifications of issues

Where the issues have been classified, two types of classifications are generally provided:

• Classification of issues using UNCITRAL classification code numbers. The source document for these codes is the UNCITRAL Thesaurus.

• Classification of issues using our own database descriptors. These are key-word descriptors devised for this database.

The source materials used to make these classifications have been full-text of the case (English language texts, where the case has been reported in this language) and English translation of the text of the case (where available); and, in other instances, case abstracts (UNCITRAL abstracts and other abstracts, including Unilex case abstracts) supplemented by other available material, e.g., case commentaries. Not all of the cases we report are at this time so classified.

Citations section of the case presentation

Whenever we have an electronic text of a case abstract, case text or case commentary that addressed or cites the case you are considering, a link to this text is provided. For commentaries, the link accesses either the full text or a relevant excerpt with a link to the full text of the commentary.

Case texts: full-text original texts and full-text translated texts

Depending on the country, a certain number of translated texts and a high proportion of original texts of all of the cases we report are available.

• Full-text original case texts. We offer on the database virtually all reported case texts handed down in English. Our Internet colleagues, members of the Autonomous Network of CISG Websites, offer full texts of reported cases handed down in the States their websites serve. Autonomous-network case material is accessible on this database via direct links to the case texts presented on these sites.

• Full-text English translations of case texts. An expanding number of full-text translated texts are available <http://www.cisg.law.pace.edu/cisg/text/queenmary.html>. The Pace University School of Law has entered into an alliance with Queen Mary College, University of London whereby the two law schools, with support from others, will work towards increasing the number of available full-text English translations of case texts.