3.7 HISTORIC JUDGMENTS

3.7.1 Historic judgments reported in newspapers

Historically some judgments were reported in newspapers. Cite such judgments as follows:

Element	Case name	Court abbrev	Location	Date of judgment	Name of newspaper	Place of newspaper publication	Full date of newspaper	Starting page	Pinpoint reference
Examples	Jones v Smith	SC	Wellington,	2 April 1844	reported in The New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator	(Wellington,	17 April 1844)	3	at 3
	R v Hipu	SC	Wellington,	1 December 1845	reported in The New Zealand Spectator and Cook’s Straits Guardian	(Wellington,	6 December 1845)	3	at 3

3.7.2 Cases in New Zealand’s Lost Cases Project

New Zealand’s Lost Cases Project is a collation of early unreported New Zealand cases. The collation is available at <www.victoria.ac.nz/law/nzlostcases/>.

Cite cases from the Lost Cases Project as follows:

Element	Case name	Court abbrev	Location	Date	Lost cases project URL
Examples	Butler v Flavell	SC	Auckland,	7 March 1849	available at <www.victoria.ac.nz/law/nzlostcases/>
	New Zealand Banking Corporation v Cutten	CA	Dunedin,	3 November 1864	available at <www.victoria.ac.nz/law/nzlostcases/>