User Guide / Accessibility

• The Interplay between the Casebooks and this Website
• Country Codes
• Tables and search facilities
• Web Content Accessibility

The Interplay between the Casebooks and this Website

Two numbering systems run in parallel throughout the book and the site for ease of cross-reference.

• First of all, cross-references in normal typeface point to the numbering of the subdivisions of this book. That numbering can be found on the top right-hand corner of the odd- numbered pages. For instance, a cross-reference to "2.3.2., Introductory Note under a)" refers to paragraph a) of the Introductory Note to Subsection 2 of Section 3 of Chapter II. By looking at the number on the top right-hand corner of odd-numbered pages, the reader can quickly find Section 3 of Chapter II ("2.3."), locate Subsection 2, and then paragraph a) of the Introductory Note. Similarly, "1.4.1.A." refers to part A. of Subsection 1 of Section 4 of Chapter I.
• Secondly, all materials included in the book have been numbered, and these numbers have been indicated on the top left-hand corner of even-numbered pages (where those include materials). Documents have been numbered consecutively for each chapter (note for readers of the first edition of Tort Law: this happened without regard to whether the document was in the book or on the Internet). A document number comprises the chapter number, an indication of the origin of the document and the sequential number of the document within the chapter. Cross-references in bold denote that numbering system. For instance, a cross-reference to "9.EC.6., Note (1)" refers to Note (1) under document number 6 of Chapter 9. "EC" indicates that the document comes from the EC legal system. By looking at the numbering on the top left-hand corner of even-numbered pages, the reader can quickly find document 9.EC.6. (the Brasserie du Pêcheur case) and then locate Note (1) under it. Similarly, "7.F.6." refers to document number 6 of Chapter 7, which comes from the French legal system.

Country Codes

The Casebooks on Tort Law (both "Scope of Protection" and the first full edition), Contract Law (first edition) and Unjustified Enrichment used intuitive single-letter country codes, for example "G" for "Germany", "E" for "England" and "F" for France.

The Casebook Non-Discrimination Law explores a greater number of jurisdictions than previous volumes in the Ius Commune Casebook series (it includes material from almost all 27 EU Member States). To avoid confusion, the familiar single-letter country codes have been replaced with two-letter codes. The majority of the country codes in the list below correspond with the appropriate ISO code. However, the country codes used in the casebooks stay closer to natural intuition when referring to the United Kingdom or its constituent countries. GB merely refers to Great Britain and not, unlike the same ISO country code, to the United Kingdom as a whole. GB is used to refer to England, Scotland and Wales, if the law in these jurisdictions differs from that in Northern Ireland. NIR is used when reference is made to instruments that are specific to Northern Ireland. Otherwise, i.e. whenever - and only if - the situation is the same in the whole of the United Kingdom, UK is used. The Casebook on Non-Discrimination Law also discusses a wider variety of instruments originating from the Council of Europe, as opposed to previous volumes which did not go beyond the ECHR and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Therefore the code ECHR has been avoided; instead CoE is used to refer to all instruments that are related to the Council of Europe. The Casebook Non-Discrimination Law includes a full list of country codes.

Tables and Search Facilities

This site includes tables of cases and legislative instruments referred to in the published casebooks (available as pdf-files). For keyword/text searches, a search facility has been included on the top right-hand corner of this page.

Web Content Accessibility

This website uses XHTML 1.0 code and has been adapted in order to achieve conformity with level Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. Conformance makes the website (and all its subpages) accessible for users with disabilities and will benefit all users. The font size can easily be adjusted via the buttons on top (right hand side). The aforementioned adaptations have been carried out with financial support of the Stimulating Public Interest Litigation at a Pan-European Level - Raising Knowledge and Imparting Skills Project, which is funded by the European Commission within the framework of the Community Action programme to combat discrimination, 2001-2006. One of the main aims of that project is to develop a Casebook Non-Discrimination Law.

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