Referencing legal cases
Guidelines for referencing legal cases:
- Include the names of the parties involved in the case—e.g., Smith v Jones
- Give the date of the case in square brackets—e.g., [2017]
- Provide the New Zealand Law Report (NZLR) or court case number.
- When referencing a case from the Courts of New Zealand website, include a retrieval date as the information is held publicly for 28 days only.
For example:
Note the absence of punctuation after the case title and date, and the use of square brackets, which differs from usual APA style.
In-text citations
Use the name of the case in italics and give the date in square brackets. For example:
In-text citations
From the case Crown v Thompson [2013], we can see that this is not always problematic.
In-text citations
Earlier this year Helen Milner was convicted of murdering her husband (Milner v R, [2014]).
