New Zealand Law Style Guide

SUBJECT INDEX

References are to paragraph numbers or to the Appendices.

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - Y

"& Anor"/"& Ors", 3.2.1(b)

¶ (pilcrow sign), with unique case numbers, 3.2.6(b)

abbreviations

acronyms, 1.1.7(d), 2.1.3

case names, 3.2.1(f)

"cf", 2.2.4(b)

chapters in texts, 6.1.8(b)

companies, 1.1.7(f), 3.2.1(b)

contractions, 1.1.7(a)

country names, 1.1.7(c)

court identifiers see court identifiers

"etc"/"et cetera", 1.1.7(a)

full stops in, 1.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.4(a)

initialisms, 1.1.7(d), 2.1.3

journal titles, 6.4.6

judicial office

Australia, 1.1.6(d)(iii)

Canada, 1.1.6(d)(iii)

England and Wales, 1.1.6(d)(ii), 8.4.5

New Zealand, 1.1.6(d)(i), 3.2.9(c)

other jurisdictions, 1.1.6(d)(iv)

jurisdiction identifiers see jurisdiction identifiers

legislative provisions, 1.1.7(e), 4.1.1(d)

court rules, 4.3.2(c)

regulations, 4.1.1(d), 4.3.1(c)

main text, general rule, 1.1.7(a)

minute book reference, 3.6.4(b)

"Re", in case name, 3.2.1(d)

reference tags, 1.1.7(b), 3.2.1(f)

regnal years, Appendix 1

report series' titles, 3.2.5(a)

shorthand terms, 1.1.7(a)

accents

foreign words or names, 1.1.1(e)

macrons in Māori words, 1.1.1(c)

Accident Compensation Appeal Authority, 3.3.3(c)(iii)

acronyms, 1.1.7(d)

punctuation, 2.1.3

Acts see statutes

"aff'd" (affirmed), 3.2.11(a)

"America", 1.1.7(c)

Appeal Cases (AC)

official reports for England and Wales, 8.4.1(a)

Privy Council judgment also reported in NZLR, 3.2.5(c)

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHR), 5.1.2

Law Commission reports, 5.2.4

reports of government departments in, 5.2.5

arbitral decisions, international, 10.3.1

articles see essays in edited books; internet materials; journal articles; newspaper articles

Associate Judges of the High Court, 1.1.6(d)(i), 3.2.9(c)

"Attorney-General", in case name, 3.2.1(b)

Australia

judges, 1.1.6(d)(iii)

neutral citation of cases, 8.2.3(a)

reported cases

Australian Trade Practices Reports, case numbers, 3.2.6(b)

Commonwealth Law Reports, court identifier exception, 3.2.7(b)

court identifier, 8.2.2(a)

general rules, 8.1

jurisdiction identifier, 8.2.2(b)

official report series, 8.2.1

year, 3.2.3(a)

statutes, 9.2

general rules, 9.1

unreported cases, general rules, 8.1

bibliographies, 2.1.1, Appendix 3 (E)

Bills, 4.2

amendments, 4.2.1(d)

capitalisation of word "Bill", 1.1.5

explanatory notes, 4.2.2

general form, 4.2.1

bar number, 4.2.1(d)

Bill number, 4.2.1(c)

divided Bills, 4.2.1(e)

number, 4.2.1(a),(b), 4.2.1(a)

reference, 4.2.1(f)

reference abbreviations, 4.2.1(f)

short title, 4.2.1(a)

year of introduction, 4.2.1(b)

select committee reports, 4.2.2

Statutes Amendment Bills, 4.2.1(b)

Supplementary Order Papers, 4.2.3

blogs, 7.1.1

brackets

AJHR

paragraph number pinpoint, 5.1.2

year of journal, 5.1.2

alternative spelling in quoted text, 1.1.1(b)

Australian statutes, jurisdiction identifier, 9.2

Bills

bar number, 4.2.1(d)

Bill number, 4.2.1(c)

number, 4.2.1(a),(b)

Cabinet document dates, 5.2.1

Canadian cases, neutral citation, year, 8.3.3(a)

case names

common names, 3.2.1(e)

suppressed names, inclusion of court file number, 3.2.1(g)

emails, date written, 7.6.5

England and Wales, divisions and specialist courts of High Court, 8.4.4(a)

initialisms, 1.1.7(d)

International Court of Justice/Permanent Court of International Justice

parties' names, 10.2.1(c)

PCIJ, series and decision number, 10.2.1(g)

phase, 10.2.1(d)

internet documents

URL, 7.1.7

year of creation, 7.1.4

interviews

date, 7.3.6

details, 7.3.5

interviewer's name, 7.3.4

transcript details, 7.3.7

journals

multiple issue numbers within single volume not consecutively paged, 6.4.5

year, where independent volume numbers, 6.4.4

legislation, jurisdiction identifier, 4.1.1(c)

letters, date written, 7.6.5

Māori Land Court/Māori Appellate Court

minute book citation, 3.6.5(a)

year of judgment, 3.6.3(a)

neutral case citation, year of decision, 3.3.2(a)

newspaper articles

date of publication, 7.2.6

place of publication, 7.2.5

press releases

date of publication, 7.4.5

description of document, 7.4.4

provincial legislation, post-1854, 4.1.4(d)

quoted text

alterations, 1.2.2(b)(iii)

emphasis added, 1.2.2(b)(iv)

footnotes or citations in, 1.2.2(b)(ii)

"sic", 1.2.2(b)(iii)

reference tags, 1.1.7(b), 2.3.1(b)

reported cases

court identifier, case without neutral citation, 3.2.7(a)

pinpoint to paragraph number, 3.2.8(b)

series number, 3.2.5(b)

year, 3.2.3(a),(b)

Scottish cases, year, 8.5.1(a)

SOP number, 4.2.3(b)

speeches, location and date, 7.5.4

texts, obscure place of publication, 6.1.6(c)

United Kingdom statutes, jurisdiction identifier

post-1998, 9.4.3(a)

pre-1998, 9.4.2

United States

cases, year, 8.6.1(a)

restatements of the law, pocket parts, 9.5.4(a)

bulleted lists, 1.2.1

Butterworths Current Law, 3.2.5(d)

"Cabinet", 1.1.5

Cabinet documents, 5.2.1

Cabinet Manual, 5.2.2

Canada

judges, 1.1.6(d)(iii)

neutral citation of cases, 8.3.3(a)

availability, 8.3.3(b)

year (distinguishing from report series citations), 8.3.3(a)

reported cases

court identifier, 8.3.2(a)

Dominion Law Reports, 8.3.1

jurisdiction identifier, 8.3.2(b)

official federal report series, 8.3.1

Supreme Court Reports, court identifier exception, 3.2.7(b)

statutes, 9.3

general rules, 9.1

capital letters

acronyms, 1.1.7(d)

case names, 3.2.1(b)

footnote format, 2.2.4(a)

general rule, 1.1.5

internet document titles, 7.1.3

journal article titles, 6.4.3

legislative/constitutional terms, 1.1.5

newspaper article titles, 7.2.3

press release titles, 7.4.3

proper nouns, 1.1.5

quoted text, 1.2.2(a)(ii)

speech titles, 7.5.3

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations, 3.2.5(a), 6.4.6

cases

footnotes, general rules see footnotes

reported see reported cases

tables, Appendix 3 (E)

automatic generation, 2.3.1(a)(i)

unreported see unreported cases

CCH series, case numbers, 3.2.6(b)

centuries, 1.2.3(d)

"cf", 2.2.4(b)

Chief Judges, 1.1.6(d)(i)

Chief Justice, 1.1.6(d)(i), 3.2.9(c)

citation

bibliographies, 2.1.1, Appendix 3 (E)

end notes, 2.1.1

footnotes see footnotes

general rules, 2.1.1

guiding principle, 2.1.1

inline referencing, 2.1.1

"City Council", in case name, 3.2.1(b)

"Civil Law"/"civil law", 1.1.5

comma

in numbers, 1.2.3(a)

serial, 1.1.2

"Commissioner of Inland Revenue", in case name, 3.2.1(b)

common case names, 3.2.1(e)

"Common Law"/"common law", 1.1.5

common nouns, capitalisation of, 1.1.5

Commonwealth Law Reports (CLR)

court identifier exception, 3.2.7(b)

Privy Council judgments in, 3.2.7(b)

company abbreviations, 1.1.7(f), 3.2.1(b)

"Compare" references in footnotes, 2.2.4(b)

conference papers, 6.7.2

consolidated cases, 3.2.1(i)

contractions, 1.1.7(a)

"Contrast" references in footnotes, 2.2.4(b)

conventions see treaties

corporate names see organisation names

Council of Europe, 10.5

country names, abbreviation of, 1.1.7(c)

court identifiers

Australia

reported cases, 8.2.2(a)

Commonwealth Law Reports, exception, 3.2.7(b)

Canada

neutral citation, 8.3.3(b)

reported cases, 8.3.2(a)

Supreme Court Reports, exception, 3.2.7(b)

England and Wales

neutral citation, 8.4.4(a)

nominate reports, 8.4.2(c)

reported cases, 8.4.3

European Court of Human Rights, 10.5.3(a)

European Court of Justice and Court of First Instance, 10.5.1(d)

New Zealand

neutral citation

courts, 3.3.3(b)

general rule, 3.3.3(a)

tribunals, 3.3.3(c)

reported cases, 3.2.7(a)

unreported cases, file number citation, 3.5.2(a)

Scotland

neutral citation, 8.5.2(b)

reported cases, 8.5.1(b)

United States

federal courts, 8.6.2

state courts, 8.6.3(a)

Supreme Court Reports, exception, 3.2.7(b)

court names, general rules, 1.1.6(c)

Court of Appeal

judges, 1.1.6(d)(i), 3.2.9(c)

neutral citation

court identifier, 3.3.3(b)(iii)

reported cases, 3.2.2(a)

unreported cases, 3.3.3(b)(iii)

when adopted, 3.3.3(b), 3.3.3(b)(iii)

President, 1.1.6(d)(i), 3.2.9(c)

reported cases see reported cases

suppressed names, inclusion of court file number, 3.2.1(g)

unreported cases, file number citation see unreported cases (file number citation)

Court of Appeal (Civil) Rules 2005

citation, 4.3.2

document style requirements, Appendix 2

Court of Appeal (Criminal) Rules 2001

citation, 4.3.2

document style requirements, Appendix 2

court rules

citation, 4.3.2

document style requirements, Appendix 2

courts, English, 1.1.6(d)(ii)

Courts of New Zealand website, 1.1.6(d)(i)

Criminal Appeal Reports, case numbers, 3.2.6(b)

Criminal Justice Assistance Reimbursement Scheme, 3.3.3(c)(ii)

cross-referencing in footnotes see footnotes

Crown, The

capitalisation, 1.1.5

case name, 3.2.1(c)

Customs Appeal Authority, 3.3.3(c)(ii)

dates

centuries, 1.2.3(d)

cited cases see reported cases; unreported cases

decades, 1.2.3(c)

format, 1.2.3(b)

spans of years, 1.2.3(c)

decades, 1.2.3(c)

definitions, statutory, 4.1.1(d)

delegated legislation see court rules; regulations

Deportation Review Authority, 3.3.3(c)(ii)

diacritic marks see accents

digests, citation, 3.2.5(d)

directives of European Community, 10.5.2

dissenting judgments, 3.2.9(d)

"District Council", in case name, 3.2.1(b)

District Court

cases see reported cases; unreported cases

judges, 1.1.6(d)(i), 3.2.9(c)

district identifier, tribunal identifier including, 3.3.3(c)(iii)

document formatting

court rules, Appendix 2

footnotes see footnotes

lists, 1.2.1

numbers and dates see numbers

quoted text see quotations

university work, Appendix 3

Dominion Law Reports, 8.3.1

"Dr", 1.1.6(a), 6.1.2(c)

economic materials

GATT, 10.6.2

WTO, 10.6.1

editorials in newspapers, 7.2.2

elision of page/paragraph numbers, 1.2.3(a), 3.2.8(b)

ellipses

keyboard shortcut, 1.2.2(b)(v)

quoted text, 1.2.2(a)(ii), 1.2.2(b)(v)

em dash, 1.2.3(c)

emails, 7.6

author, 7.6.2

date written, 7.6.5

general form, 7.6.1

recipient, 7.6.3

subject, 7.6.4

emphasis, 1.1.4

quoted text, 1.2.2(b)(iv)

Employment Court

judges, 1.1.6(d)(i)

neutral citation

court identifier, 3.3.3(b)(iv)

when adopted, 3.3.3(b)(iv)

en dash

bilateral treaties, parties' names, 10.1.1(b)

case pinpoint, range of paragraphs or pages, 3.2.8(b)

keyboard shortcut, 1.2.3(c)

Māori Land Court/Māori Appellate Court, separation of case name and block name, 3.6.2(a)

spans of years, 1.2.3(c)

texts, multi-volume work, 6.1.7(a)

encyclopaediae see legal encyclopaediae

end note systems, 2.1.1

England and Wales