OSCOLA
OSCOLA referencing style is used when submitting work for a module for the School of Law. Due to the complexity of particular sources, some entries are very detailed. Make sure to fully read each page.
Suggestion re sources cited in a secondary source on this page are modelled on the FAQs on the OSCOLA website but have not yet been discussed and approved by the OSCOLA editorial board.
Academic best practice dictates you should always try to read any source in the original rather than someone else's interpretation. Never cite the original if you did not use the original source.
If it is not possible to read the original, link the source you have not read to the source you have read by using "as cited in". The pinpoint page at the end refers to the page you have read, not the pinpoint page in the original source.
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Cases
You should make every effort to locate and read primary sources by using Justis One, Lexis, Westlaw, or other legal database/resource such as Worldlii. If a case is citing another case, cite the first case followed by 'citing' and then cite the second case.
Case footnote example:
1 SG&R Valuation Service Co LLC v Boudrais et al [2008] EWHC 1340, [2008] IRLR 770 [22] citing Miles v Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council [1987] AC 539.
Secondary Sources
Secondary sources footnote examples (footnote format will depend upon the type of source used):
2 Art. 14(1) and (2) Harvard Draft Convention on Piracy (as cited in A Petrig and R Geiss, Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea: The Legal Framework for Counter-Piracy Operations in Somalia and the Gulf of Aden (OUP 2011) 140).
3 Quoted in WL Clay, The Prison Chaplain: A Memoir of the Reverend John Clay (London 1861) 554 (as cited in M Wiener, Reconstructing the Criminal Culture, Law and Policy in England 1830–1914 (CUP 1990) 79).
Reference: Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, OSCOLA: Oxford Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (4th edn Oxford University 2010) 35.