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21.2Legislative Materials

21.2.1Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation

Rule Singaporean legislation and subsidiary legislation that has been assigned a chapter number should be cited as follows:

Title (Singapore, cap Chapter Number , Year rev ed) Pinpoint .

The title should adhere to rule 3.1.1. Where a statute or subsidiary legislation is cited as in force, the year is that of the most recent revision. For historical references, the appropriate year of revision should be included. Pinpoint references should adhere to rules 3.1.4– 3.1.6 and 3.3.2.

Legislation and subsidiary legislation that has not been assigned a chapter number or been revised (as well as historical statutes and subsidiary legislation that preceded chapter numbering) should be cited as follows:

Title Year (Singapore) Pinpoint .

The year is that in which the statute was passed or the subsidiary legislation was promulgated originally (and should adhere to rule 3.1.2).

Examples Adoption of Children Act (Singapore, cap 4, 1985 rev ed) s 5.

Land Titles Act (Singapore, cap 157, 1994 rev ed) pt III.

Rules of Court (Singapore, cap 322, 2006 rev ed) O 10 r 1.

Road Traffic (Motor Vehicles, Driving Licences) (Amendment) Rules 2010 (Singapore).

Land Titles Ordinance 1956 (Singapore) ss 28(2)(b)–(e).

Notes In Singapore, all forms of delegated legislation are called ‘subsidiary legislation’.

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22 South Africa

22.1Cases

22.1.1General Rule

Africa South

Rule

Example

Note

South Africa does not have authorised reports of judicial decisions. The most commonly used report series is the South African Law Reports (abbreviated ‘SA’), which should be cited where possible.

S v Manamela [2000] 3 SA 1 (Constitutional Court).

Decisions of the Supreme Court and High Court of Namibia and the Supreme Court and High Court of Zimbabwe are reported in the SA, and should be cited in accordance with this rule.

Rule

Examples

South African legislation and delegated legislation should be cited in accordance with chapter 3.

The following abbreviations and phrases should be used to indicate South African jurisdictions:

In provincial legislation, where the jurisdiction appears at the beginning of the title of an Act, it should be omitted from the title and included in abbreviated form in accordance with rule 3.1.3.

Local Government Transition Act 1993 (South Africa).

Digital Terrestrial Television Regulations 2009 (South Africa) reg 5.

Land Administration Act 2003 (KZN). [Not: KwaZulu-Natal Land

Administration Act 2003.]

23.1.1General Rule

23.1.2Modern English Reports

Rule The Law Reports, published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales, should be cited where available.

The abbreviations for commonly used series in the Law Reports (and predecessor series) are in the table below. Where ‘LR’ appears in an abbreviation, the volume number should be included between ‘LR’ and the rest of the abbreviation (for example, ‘LR 7 QB’, not ‘7 LR QB’).

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Kingdom

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Where necessary to avoid ambiguity, judges’ names should be repeated after both the nominate report and the ER or RR pinpoints.

Examples Russel v Lee (1661) 1 Lev 86; 83 ER 310.

Janvrin v De La Mare (1861) 14 Moo 334, 345; 15 ER 332, 336 (Lord Kingsdown).

Peters v Fleming (1840) 6 M & W 42, 47 (Parke B), 48 (Alderson B), 49 (Rolfe B); 151 ER 314, 315 (Parke B), 316 (Alderson B), 316 (Rolfe B).

Note The nominate reports, published between 1537 and 1865, are reports that were published under the name of the reporter. Many of the nominate reports have been compiled and reprinted. The first reprint was published as the RR. The subsequent (and preferred) reprint is the ER.

23.1.4Scottish Cases

Rule Scottish cases should be cited in accordance with rule 23.1. However, in report series organised by year, square brackets should not enclose the year.

Example Logan v Harrower 2008 SLT 1049.

United

Kingdom