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Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines: Law Reports

Life and Health Sciences Harvard Referencing Guidelines

Law Reports

It is recommended that you follow accepted legal citation, which is not part of the Harvard system. Copy the lettering, date, numbers, abbreviations and punctuation that you find in your source.

For a law or court case report the required elements for a reference are:

Name of the parties in italics Year of reporting - in [square brackets] or (round brackets) as indicated by the law report you are using. Volume if included in the reference. The abbreviation for the law reporting series. Part number/case number/page reference if available. Use a comma between details of one case law report publication and a second - if reported in more than one.

 

Reference List

Example of the full reference at the end of your assignment:

Jabang v Wadman and others [2017] EWHC 1894 (QB).

In-text citation

Example 1 - where the author's name occurs naturally in the sentence

Jabang V Wadman (2017)

Example 2 - where the author's name does not occur naturally in the sentence

In a legal judgement (Jabang v Wadman and others 2017) some doctors were found to have failed to diagnose spinal tuberculosis as the reason for increasing back pain. As a result, the patient is now paraplegic and unable to work.

Other points to note

Points to note: 

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