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Citing Lecture 4 22nd February Citations Laws 110 Notes

Updated Citing Lecture 4 22nd February Citations Laws 110 Notes

Legal Foundations (LAWS110) Notes

Legal Foundations (LAWS110)

Approximately 168 pages

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

  1. Theresa Buller

  2. “” and Kim Hall

  3. “” “”, Kim Hall and John Smith

  4. 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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