How to treat different versions of judgments?
Whenever the court renders a judgment, the judgment can be written and then edited or redacted before public distribution, thus generating many versions of the same judgment. A version distributed at a certain time might then be replaced later by another version. Here are two possible situations : A judgment is rendered orally from the bench with written reasons to follow. The transcript of the oral decision is distributed. Several weeks later, the written reasons are released by the court and this new version of the judgment is distributed. A judgment is rendered with written reasons, but is subject to a publication ban. A redacted version of this judgment is prepared and distributed by the court. Several weeks later, the publication ban is either lifted or has expired, and the court chooses to distribute the original version of the judgment. In such cases, the file that is distributed first is named after the core of its neutral citation, as if it was the original or definitive versi
