Second Edition of New Zealand Law Style Guide Published

The second edition of the highly successful New Zealand Law Style Guide will be published in December. The first edition, published in 2009, has quickly become the standard for the citation of New Zealand legal material.    

The second edition aims to build on the success of the first edition by:
• Providing new or expanded rules for a range of material not included in the first edition;
• Clarifying rules, including the cross referencing rules; and
• Simplifying the rules relating to the citation of international material.
Some sections have been rewritten and reordered to make them easier to understand.  As a result the Guide is much more user-friendly and the new edition is essential for anyone who has to cite legal materials. It is intended that there will be no further editions until 2017 at the earliest.

The new edition of the  Guide will be able to be accessed online through the website of the New Zealand Law Foundation, by the end of January 2012.  The New Zealand Law Foundation supported the production of the first edition and owns the copyright to the Guide.
Hard copies can be purchased from Thomson Reuters at $19 + GST ($21.85 incl GST) from mid -December.

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