The Philippines' Supreme Court has, on some occasions, cited Wikipedia
articles in their decisions to provide supplementary background
information. Here's one example---and one that was written as early as 2005!
(the citation is on Footnote #34, near the bottom of that page)
More examples can be found here:
There are probably more that doesn't show up on the Google search link
above. This is because the Supreme Court has published the more recent
decisions as PDF files. Since some of the decisions are scanned PDFs rather
than true PDFs, some recent Wikipedia citations might not have been indexed
(yet).
Regards from Manila,
Paolo
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Szymon Grabarczuk (Tar Lócesilion) - made a study how
many times Wikipedia
was cited in Polish courts, by browsing public database of courts'
decissions:
https://depot.ceon.pl/handle/123456789/2232
He counted (till 2012) 223 such cases :-)
Some uses of Wikipedia by the courts are quite controversial. I mean - it
may happed that someone edit or even write an article in order to use it as
an argument in the court. I personally would not liked to be judged based
on Wikipedia entires :-)
2015-06-17 10:49 GMT+02:00 Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>om>:
To the best of my knowledge, the US Supreme Court
has yet to cite
Wikipedia, but US Federal appeals courts have done so. Also, a state
supreme court cited Wikipedia prominently in a decision about insurance
coverage:
http://abbottlawfirm.com/blog/2012/08/16/utah-supreme-court-cites-wikipedia…
Pine
On Jun 16, 2015 5:35 PM, "Salvador A" <salvador1983(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi folks!
This month one mexican federal court generated an interesting case law
related to use of Wikipedia as source of knowledge on trials, specially
in
> law resolutions. The tribunal that solved this was the "Tribunal
Federal
de
> Justicia Fiscal y Administrativa". This court is not the supreme court
of
Mexico
but is the most important tribunal after that one in all the
matter
> related to tax and administrative law and its precedents are binding
for
all
mexican administrative authorities and al the judges on
administrative
and fiscal law.
The case law is the number VII-J-SS-191 and you can read it in the next
link:
(only in Spanish)
http://sctj.tfjfa.gob.mx/SCJI/assembly/detalleTesis?idTesis=41716
The title is at the same time a brief of the content of the precedent,
and
it can be translated in this way:
*"Wikipedia".- The information that is obtained from this website can
help
> to elucidate some controversial matter, thence the courtrooms of this
> tribunal may use it when ruling.*
>
> Inside the text the court makes a fair clarication: "*It must not be
the
> only source of knowledge in which the
resolutions are based on [...]
the
> judges must care about gathering diversity
of sources of information
such
> as specialized books, encyclopedia,
including the electronic ones,
[...]
and
others*."
Maybe is just a curiosity, but for me is ilustrative of the good
reputation
> that our work is getting even in some closed circles as the law
practice.
At least
in Mexico is not common to see a court quoting Wikipedia, but
maybe this first precedent might change the things.
Do you know other similar case laws?
Regards!
[1]
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribunal_Federal_de_Justicia_Fiscal_y_Adminis…
--
*Salvador Alcántar*
*@salvador_alc*
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