New Zealand Law Style Guide

• Preface to the Third Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Major Changes in the Third Edition
• General Principles
• Errors and Omissions
• 1. General Rules: Main Text
  • 1.1 PROSE
    • 1.1.1 Language
    • 1.1.2 Punctuation
    • 1.1.3 Italics
    • 1.1.4 Emphasis
    • 1.1.5 Capital Letters
    • 1.1.6 Naming parliamentarians, courts and judges
    • 1.1.7 Abbreviations
  • 1.2 FORMAT
    • 1.2.1 Numbered and bulleted lists
    • 1.2.2 Quotations
    • 1.2.3 Numbers and dates
    • 1.2.4 Currency
• 2. General Rules: Footnotes and the Citation of Sources
  • 2.1 GENERAL
    • 2.1.1 General rules for citation
    • 2.1.2 The location of citation information
    • 2.1.3 Punctuation only when grammatically necessary
  • 2.2 NUMBERING AND FORMAT OF FOOTNOTES
    • 2.2.1 Numbering
    • 2.2.2 Position of footnote numbers in the main text
    • 2.2.3 Location of footnotes
    • 2.2.4 Format and content of footnotes
  • 2.3 CROSS-REFERENCING
    • 2.3.1 Subsequent references to a cited source
    • 2.3.2 Reference tags for cases
• 3 Cases
  • 3.1 DETERMINING HOW TO CITE A CASE
  • 3.2 REPORTED CASES
    • 3.2.1 Case name
    • 3.2.2 Neutral citation
    • 3.2.3 Year
    • 3.2.4 Volume number
    • 3.2.5 Report series
    • 3.2.6 Starting page
    • 3.2.7 Court identifier
    • 3.2.8 Pinpoint reference
    • 3.2.9 Judge identifier
    • 3.2.10 Parallel citations
    • 3.2.11 Case history
  • 3.3 NEUTRAL CITATION
    • 3.3.1 Case name and pinpoint reference
    • 3.3.2 Year
    • 3.3.3 Court identifier
    • 3.3.4 Judgment number
  • 3.4 UNREPORTED CASES
    • 3.4.1 When to use
    • 3.4.2 Case name and pinpoint reference
    • 3.4.3 Court abbreviation
    • 3.4.4 Registry
    • 3.4.5 File number
    • 3.4.6 Date of judgment
    • 3.4.7 Minutes and rulings given during trial
    • 3.4.8 Judge identifier
  • 3.5 MĀORI LAND COURT AND MĀORI APPELLATE COURT DECISIONS
    • 3.5.1 Case name
    • 3.5.2 Block name
    • 3.5.3 Year of judgment
    • 3.5.4 Minute book reference
    • 3.5.5 Citation
    • 3.5.6 Pinpoint reference
  • 3.6 WAITANGI TRIBUNAL
  • 3.7 HISTORIC JUDGMENTS
    • 3.7.1 Historic judgments reported in newspapers
    • 3.72 Cases in New Zealand’s Lost Cases Project
  • 3.8 TRANSCRIPTS
• 4. Legislation
  • 4.1 STATUTES
    • 4.1.1 General form
    • 4.1.2 Imperial legislation
    • 4.1.3 Pre-1854 ordinances
    • 4.1.4 Legislation from 1854 on
  • 4.2 BILLS
    • 4.2.1 General form
    • 4.2.2 Select committee reports and explanatory notes
    • 4.2.3 Supplementary order papers
  • 4.3 SECONDARY LEGISLATION
    • 4.3.1 Legislative instruments
    • 4.3.2 Instruments in their own right
    • 4.3.3 Court rules
    • 4.3.4 Other instruments or DINLIs
    • 4.3.5 Letters patent
    • 4.3.6 Proclamations
• 5. Other Official Sources
  • 5.1 PARLIAMENTARY MATERIALS
    • 5.1.1 Hansard
    • 5.1.2 Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives
    • 5.1.3 Submissions to select committees
    • 5.1.4 Standing orders
  • 5.2 GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
    • 5.2.1 Cabinet documents
    • 5.2.2 Cabinet Manual
    • 5.2.3 Law Commission reports
    • 5.2.4 New Zealand Gazette
    • 5.2.5 Select committee reports
  • 5.3 REQUESTS UNDER THE OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT 1982
  • 5.4 PAPERS AND REPORTS
• 6. Secondary Materials
  • 6.1 TEXTS
    • 6.1.1 General form
    • 6.1.2 Author
    • 6.1.3 Title
    • 6.1.4 Edition
    • 6.1.5 Publisher
    • 6.1.6 Place of publication
    • 6.1.7 Year of publication
    • 6.1.8 Pinpoint reference
    • 6.1.9 eBooks
  • 6.2 ESSAYS AND CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
    • 6.2.1 General form
    • 6.2.2 Author
    • 6.2.3 Title of essay or chapter
    • 6.2.4 Citation of text
    • 6.2.5 Starting page
    • 6.2.6 Pinpoint reference
  • 6.3 ONLINE COMMENTARIES AND LOOSELEAF TEXTS
    • 6.3.1 General form
    • 6.3.2 Editor or author
    • 6.3.3 Title
    • 6.3.4 Edition
    • 6.3.5 Publisher
    • 6.3.6 Pinpoint reference
    • 6.3.7 Service update and date of access
  • 6.4 JOURNAL ARTICLES
    • 6.4.1 General form
    • 6.4.2 Author
    • 6.4.3 Title
    • 6.4.4 Year
    • 6.4.5 Volume number
    • 6.4.6 Journal abbreviation
    • 6.4.7 Starting page
    • 6.4.8 Pinpoint reference
  • 6.5 LEGAL ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
    • 6.5.1 Hardcopy edition
    • 6.5.2 Online edition
  • 6.6 LAWS OF NEW ZEALAND
    • 6.6.1 Hardcopy edition
    • 6.6.2 Online edition
  • 6.7 UNPUBLISHED PAPERS
    • 6.7.1 Theses and research papers
    • 6.7.2 Seminars and papers presented at conferences
  • 6.8 FORTHCOMING WORKS
  • 6.9 REFERENCES TO A WORK REFERRED TO IN ANOTHER WORK
• 7. Other Sources
  • 7.1 INTERNET MATERIALS
    • 7.1.1 General rules
    • 7.1.2 Author
    • 7.1.3 Document title
    • 7.1.4 Date
    • 7.1.5 Website name
    • 7.1.6 Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
    • 7.1.7 Pinpoint reference
    • 7.1.8 Podcasts
    • 7.1.9 Cases
    • 7.1.10 Social media
  • 7.2 NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES
    • 7.2.2 Author
    • 7.2.3 Article title
    • 7.2.4 Newspaper title
    • 7.2.5 Place of publication
    • 7.2.6 Date
    • 7.2.7 Pinpoint reference
  • 7.3 INTERVIEWS
    • 7.3.1 General form
    • 7.3.2 Interviewee
    • 7.3.3 Position
    • 7.3.4 Interviewer
    • 7.3.5 Interview details
    • 7.3.6 Date
    • 7.3.7 Transcript details
  • 7.4 PRESS RELEASES
    • 7.4.1 General form
    • 7.4.2 Author
    • 7.4.3 Title of press release
    • 7.4.4 Description of document
    • 7.4.5 Date
    • 7.4.6 Pinpoint reference
  • 7.5 SPEECHES
    • 7.5.1 General form
    • 7.5.2 Speaker
    • 7.5.3 Title
    • 7.5.4 Location
    • 7.5.5 Date
  • 7.6 LETTERS AND EMAILS
    • 7.6.1 General form
    • 7.6.2 Author
    • 7.6.3 Recipient
    • 7.6.4 Subject
    • 7.6.5 Date
  • 7.7 HISTORICAL MATERIALS
    • 7.7.1 Edited or translated texts
    • 7.7.2 Archived materials
• 8. Cases from Specific Jurisdictions
  • 8.1 GENERAL RULES
  • 8.2 AUSTRALIA
    • 8.2.1 Report series
    • 8.2.2 Court identifiers
    • 8.2.3 Neutral citations
  • 8.3 CANADA
    • 8.3.1 Report series
    • 8.3.2 Court identifiers
    • 8.3.3 Neutral citations
  • 8.4 ENGLAND AND WALES
    • 8.4.1 Modern English reports
    • 8.4.2 Nominate reports
    • 8.4.3 Court identifiers
    • 8.4.4 Neutral citations
  • 8.5 SCOTLAND
    • 8.5.1 Citation of cases reported in law reports
    • 8.5.2 Neutral citations
  • 8.6 UNITED STATES
    • 8.6.1 Mode of citation
    • 8.6.2 Federal court decisions
    • 8.6.3 State court decisions
• 9. Legislation from Specific Jurisdictions
  • 9.1 GENERAL RULES
  • 9.2 AUSTRALIA
  • 9.3 CANADA
    • 9.3.1 Statutes
  • 9.4 UNITED KINGDOM
    • 9.4.1 Pre-1963 statutes
    • 9.4.2 Modern statutes (prior to the 1998 constitutional reforms)
    • 9.4.3 Modern statutes (post-1998)
  • 9.5 UNITED STATES
    • 9.5.1 Codes
    • 9.5.2 Session laws
    • 9.5.3 Model laws
    • 9.5.4 Restatements of the law
    • 9.5.5 United States Constitution
• 10. International Materials
  • 10.1 TREATIES
    • 10.1.1 General form
  • 10.2 DECISIONS OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS
    • 10.2.1 International Court of Justice and Permanent Court of International Justice
    • 10.2.2 Modern international criminal courts and tribunals
  • 10.3 INTERNATIONAL ARBITRAL DECISIONS
    • 10.3.1 Reported decisions
    • 10.3.2 Unreported decisions
  • 10.4 UNITED NATIONS MATERIALS
    • 10.4.1 General form for constitutive documents of the United Nations
    • 10.4.2 General form for United Nations resolutions
    • 10.4.3 General form for other United Nations materials
    • 10.4.4 International Law Commission
  • 10.5 EUROPEAN MATERIALS
    • 10.5.1 General form for European Union cases
    • 10.5.2 European Union legislation
    • 10.5.3 General form for European Court of Human Rights cases
    • 10.5.4 General form for European Commission of Human Rights cases
  • 10.6 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC MATERIALS
    • 10.6.1 General form for official documents of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
    • 10.6.2 General form for official documents of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
• Appendix 1 - Identifiers for New Zealand Courts and Tribunals
• Appendix 2 - Australian Official Report Series and Neutral Citations
• Appendix 3 - Canadian Official Report Series and Neutral Citations
• Appendix 4 - England and Wales Official Report Series and Neutral Citations
• Appendix 5 - Table of Regnal Years
• Appendix 6 - Court Rules Relating to Styles
• Appendix 7 - Additional Style Rules for University Work
• Index