Law Notes Legal Foundations (LAWS110) Notes
The notes are from lectures and tutorials for legal foundations from a high achieving student from the lecturer John Hopkins and Sasha.
The course aims to provide a foundation in the skills of legal research and legal writing together with an academic grounding in topics fundamental to the New Zealand legal system. The course will involve training by way of proactive exercises in legal research and legal writing. It will also examine the historical development of New Zealand's legal system, f...
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Laws 110
22nd February
Lecture 4
Act
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Book:
Author Title (ed, Publisher, Place of Publication, Year.)
e.g. Andrew Butler and Petra Butler (follow what the book says if it just has initial use it, include word ‘and’) The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act: A Commentary (2nd ed, LexisNexis, Wellington, 2015).
Remember to place the full stop correctly
What happens when you have multiple authors?
First name last name, alphabetically by sir name
# of authors
Theresa Buller
“” and Kim Hall
“” “”, Kim Hall and John Smith
Theresa Buller and others.
Chapter in a book
Credit the book itself and the Chapter in a Book. Quote marks to differentiate as a chapter
Jessica Palmer “Constructive Trusts” in Andrew Butler (ed) Equity and Trusts in New Zealand (2nd ed, Thomas Reuters, Wellington, 2009) 335.
(ed)- show the editor of the book
Title in italics
Space after every comma
Full stop at the end
Place of publication- city
Need to credit the author, tell the marker how they are going to find the chapter
Journal Article
Leonard Rotman “’My Hovercraft is Full of Eels’: Smoking Out the Message in R v Marshall” (2009) 63. Sask L Rev 617.
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The notes are from lectures and tutorials for legal foundations from a high achieving student from the lecturer John Hopkins and Sasha.
The course aims to provide a foundation in the skills of legal research and legal writing together with an academic grounding in topics fundamental to the New Zealand legal system. The course will involve training by way of proactive exercises in legal research and legal writing. It will also examine the historical development of New Zealand's legal system, f...
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