NZLSG
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Designed for New Zealand law students. Build complex footnotes, create bibliographies grouped by jurisdiction, and manage pinpoints and quotations, all with Pincite. Stop losing marksStop stressingNo AINo compromises

Footnote

Susan Glazebrook “Academics and the Supreme Court” (2017) 48 VUWLR 237 at 247.

Above n

Glazebrook, above n 12, at 247.

Bibliography

Susan Glazebrook “Academics and the Supreme Court” (2017) 48 VUWLR 237.

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Pincite gives you the tools to create expert-grade footnotes for any citation. Reference over 160 citation types and access the advanced referencing techniques with ease. Create multiple source footnotes, use introductory signals, pinpoint different sections from multiple judges. Build perfect bibliographies that are pre-formatted in one click, and much more.If the NZ Law Style Guide has a rule for it, Pincite can build it.

LAWS5120 Example Essay.docx

III Context and Purpose

The better view is that context controls. In Harrigan v Bellamy, the High Court read the disputed power against the statute as a whole. Mason CJ put the point beyond argument:

An example essay

[T]he grant of power takes its colour from the purpose of the statute … a court falls into error the moment it reads [the words of the grant] in isolation from that purpose.¹

A quotation

Here the quotation has alterations to the text, omitted text, and is indented as a long quote, all formatted in the Quotations tool.

The commentary has since pressed that method further,² and it is now mirrored in European data-protection law and the constitutional jurisprudence it answers to.³

¹Portland Holdings Ltd v Cameo Motors Ltd [1966] NZLR 571 (CA) at 581.

A simple source

A reported case with no neutral citation, so the court goes in brackets after the page, and a pinpoint that reads at rather than a bare comma.

²Te Tiriti o Waitangi 1840, art 3.

A founding document

Te Tiriti o Waitangi, cited by the rule for statutes, with an article pinpoint.

³Pacey v Adlam – Matata Parish 39A 2B 2A (2017) 178 Waiariki MB 32 (178 WAR 32).

A source no Australian guide covers

A Māori Land Court decision. The block name joins the case name, and the minute book is named twice, in full and then as a short citation.

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Choose from over 60 citation types, from reported cases to treaties, UN documents and foreign legislation. Cite the things only a New Zealand guide covers: Māori Land Court and Māori Appellate Court minute books, Waitangi Tribunal reports, te Tiriti o Waitangi, Supreme Court transcripts and the Lost Cases Project. Cite foreign material from Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the United States. Your footnote, bibliography entry and later references are all created at once.
Citations
Create pinpoints, and attach notes about their relevance to your argument. The Quotations tool formats your quotes to r 1.2.2: under 30 words it sets them inline in double quotation marks, at 30 or more it indents them as a block with no marks at all, and it marks the omissions, the alterations and the [sic] for you. Pinpoints read at 55 and at [52], and ranges are written out in full rather than elided (r 1.2.3(a)).
Pinpoints & notes
The projects page is the heart of Pincite. Everything you create is saved and organised into a project, and each assignment keeps its own. A source saves once and holds every pinpoint, quotation and note you file under it. Your work stays saved even if your subscription lapses.
Projects
When you’re ready, generate the full bibliography from the projects tab. Sourcesare grouped the way Appendix 7 asks, with cases and legislation divided by jurisdiction and New Zealand first, then lettered and alphabetised. Every copycarries real formatting, so the font, the sizes you set and every italic land intact in Word.
Bibliography