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Harvard Style of Citing References |
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Legal sources |
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Jump to: Acts, Statutory Instruments, Statutory Rules Acts of Parliament (Westminster) Northern Ireland Statutes and Orders in Council
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Acts, Statutory Instruments, Statutory Rules |
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Give the Title and year of the Act, SI or SR (with section, sub section or paragraph, if appropriate) in FULL in the text. For subsequent mentions of the same legislation, you may abbreviate the title. (You should provide the relevant abbreviation when the legislation is first mentioned in the text). e.g. … the far-reaching judicial role ushered in by the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) … then …as indicated by the HRA 1998, s 6. In your list of references. |
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Acts of Parliament (Westminster) |
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Title Year, section number(sub-section)(paragraph) e.g. Children and Young Persons Act 2008 or Human Rights Act 1998, s 6(1)(b) |
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Northern Ireland Statutes and Orders in Council |
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| Acts (passed by NI Parliament, 1921-1972 or Assembly, 1998 onwards) (Note: For 1921-1972, use (NI) before the Year; for 1998 onwards, use (Northern Ireland) before the Year. |
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Title (NI or Northern Ireland) Year, section number(sub-section)(paragraph) e.g. Electoral Law Act (NI) 1962, s 108. or Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 s 46(3)(a). |
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Orders in Council (NI legislation issued at Westminster) | |
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Title (Northern Ireland) Order Year, art number(paragraph)(sub-paragraph) e.g. Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, art 66. or Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, art 12(1)(b).
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Case Law |
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In text:Cite the party names in italics. There is no need to include the year. |
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e.g. The landmark case of Donoghue v Stevenson … or … as was illustrated in R v Brown … For any subsequent mention of the case, you can either repeat the case name in full or refer only to the first party name, as long as there is no confusion with other cases in your work. e.g. … the earlier Court of Sessions decision in Donoghue ... or Templeman LJ argued in Brown that ... In your list of references |
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Law Reports | |
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Cite any law reports from library databases as if they were print reports. Party names [separated by a v, if appropriate] [Year published] volume number (if relevant) Abbreviation for Law Report series Starting page of case (Court abbreviation, if pre-2001). e.g. Nothman v London Borough of Barnet [1979] 1 WLR 67 (HL). or Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] 4 All ER 961 (CA). |
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Neutral Citations | |
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Introduced to identify freely available online judgments, independent of any law report series. Cases are numbered consecutively throughout the year. Party names (separated by a v) [Year heard] Court Abbreviation Case No. e.g. NI Housing Executive v Healthy Buildings (Ireland) Ltd [2014] NICA 27. Note: where both a print and neutral citation is available, cite both (neutral citation first). Separate the citations by a comma. e.g. AR v Homefirst Community Trust [2005] NICA 8, [2005] NI 435. |
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