Corrections
How to report an error, and what happens to an article when the report turns out to be right.
This journal publishes procedural law, which moves. An article that has gone wrong is far better reported than left standing, and the reader holding the primary source is often the first person in a position to see it.
Sending in an error
The address is contact@justicepartnersgroup.com. Three things make a report usable: the address of the article, the passage quoted exactly as it appears on the page, and what you understand the correct position to be. A citation to the statute, regulation, agency instruction or decision that settles it shortens the whole exercise to a single step. A plain account of where an article does not match practice is welcome without one.
What happens to the article
The claim is checked against the primary source rather than against whatever produced the error. Then one of three things follows.
- If the article is wrong, it is corrected in place. Where the correction changes the substance of an answer — the deadline, the forum, the standard, the outcome — the article says so in its own text, so that a reader arriving afterward can see that the position moved and what it moved from.
- If the article is right but was read the wrong way round, the passage is rewritten. An accurate sentence that misleads is a defect and is treated as one.
- If the article is right and the passage is clear, nothing in it changes.
Corrections live in the article rather than in a separate list. This site carries no dates anywhere, so a dated correction log would contradict everything around it, and an undated one would be a list without information in it. The article is the record, and the sources printed at its foot are the way to test the record.
What this address cannot do
No question about a reader's own matter is answered here. Justice Partners Journal is a publication and not a law firm: no document is reviewed, no matter is assessed, no filing is prepared, no firm is recommended, and nothing sent to the address is confidential or privileged. A reply that read as advice would do more damage than no reply at all, which is why none is given.
Anyone who needs advice should approach a lawyer licensed in the relevant jurisdiction. State bar associations run referral services, and legal aid organizations take matters by subject in most parts of the country.
Reports other than legal errors
The same address takes a broken link, a photograph credited to the wrong photographer, a license recorded incorrectly at image credits, a heading that reads as an offer of representation, or any barrier described on the accessibility page. All of these are treated as defects in the same way an incorrect statutory citation is.
The standards behind all of this are set out at editorial standards, and the method that produces an article at how we work. For anything that is not a correction, see contact.