APA 7
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In addition to law reports, legal chambers or publishers may publish comments or analyses of cases. It is important to be clear that these are opinions by individual or organisation authors, and are different to law reports.
Reference
Author or organisation (Year). Title of case. Database name or URL
Essex Chambers (2018). CH v. A Metropolitan Council. http://www.39essex.com/cop_cases/ch-v-metropolitan-council
or
Thomson Reuters (2018). CH v. A Metropolitan Council. Westlaw.
In-text Citation
Two analyses of the case (Essex Chambers, 2018; Thomson Reuters, 2018) ...