How to make corrections to a distributed judgment?
Among Canadian courts, there is a wide variety of ways of making corrections to a judgment after its initial version has been distributed to the public. The Guide, at section 3.5, aims at the uniformity of these practices, while allowing courts to choose among many options. The first thing for a court to decide for a court is whether corrections will be distributed as errata (or corrigenda) or as corrected judgments (or corrected decisions, according to the courts choice). An erratum, also called corrigendum, is a document stating one or many corrections made to a judgment that was initially distributed. It is meant to be read with the initial judgment, however, without replacing it. The filename of the distributed erratum is the same as the initial judgment, with the addition of the sufffix err1 for the first erratum, err2 for the second, and so on. The content of the erratum is left to the discretion of the court. A corrected judgment is a new version of the judgment intended to repl
