Letter or email

What it is

Private correspondence between named people.

How to cite it

Cited under r 7.6, opening with the medium and the sender, then the recipient, then the subject.

Example citation

Letter from CI Patterson (Chairman of the Securities Commission) to Geoffrey Palmer (Minister of Justice) regarding the Corporations (Investigation and Management) Bill 1988 (8 February 1989).

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