The Denning Law Journal

Submission

The Editors welcome submissions for the Journal. Authors should send their proposed articles as a word attachment by email to:

 

susan.edwards@buckingham.ac.uk

 

Or send to:

 

The Editor

The Denning Law Journal

The Law School

The University of Buckingham Press

Buckingham

MK18 1EG

United Kingdom

Information for authors and contributors

 

Proposed contributions are invited on the understanding that they have not been accepted for publication elsewhere.

 

The editors welcome extended articles of 8-10,000 words but the journal will also publish shorter articles of 3-5000 words as well as book reviews and case notes.

The editors retain the right to make alterations as to style, grammar, punctuation etc; the accuracy of the contribution is the responsibility of the author.

 

All articles are refereed.

 

Copyright; authors of articles accepted for publication will be required to sign a Copyright Transfer Publication Agreement.

 

Presentation and style

Title and abstract

 

Authors are asked to supply a proposed title for their article followed by an abstract of approximately 100-150 words

 

Font

 

Text: 11 point Times New Roman

Footnotes: 10 point Times New Roman

 

Paragraph headings

 

Main paragraphs: 12 point Upper case, bold, Times New Roman  as follows:

 

INTRODUCTION

(space)

Text…..

 

THE NATURE OF THE BREACH OF DUTY

(space)

Text……

 

Sub-paragraphs – level 1 – Italics, normal case – numbering - alphabetic lower case, not in italics– eg (a) Precedent Defined

 

Sub-paragraph – level 2 – Normal case – numbering – Times New Roman numerals – eg (1).

 

Spellings

 

English spelling, not American, should take the 'ise' form, not 'ize' (except in quoted material, which should follow the original in every respect). Full stops should not be used after initials, or in ie, eg, etc, or All ER, AC, HL, etc.

 

Italics

 

All words to appear in italics should be underlined or italicised in the typescript. Please use only for emphasis, case names, book titles and foreign expressions not in everyday use. Do not use italics for the following expressions: a fortiori, ad hoc, ante, bona fide, certiorari, cf, de facto, de jure, eg, etc, et seq, ibid, ie, inter alia, intra vires, ipso facto, obiter, per, per se, prima facie, pro rata, ultra vires, vice versa, viz.

 

Quotes and Quote marks

 

Quote marks should be double, with single for quotes within quotes.

 

Extracts and quoted material

 

To be distinguished by indentation, when of three or more lines' length. Indented quotes to be preceded by a colon.

 

Interpolations should be indicated by the use of square brackets. To indicate omitted words, three full points . . . separated equally from one another and from any preceding or succeeding words or quotations marks are sufficient.

 

Quotes should be indented and justified on both sides.

 

Cross-references

 

Cross-references should be to footnote number and associated text, to avoid having to insert page numbers on proof (in case a contribution is withdrawn, for instance).

 

Footnotes

 

(Every footnote text is ended by full stop)

 

Bibliographical references

 

Bibliographical references should be in the following form:

 

A Bloggs Name of Book (London, Butterworths, 1995) pp 3-5.

B Cloggs Name of Book (London, Butterworths, 2nd edn, 1996) ch 3.

Y Zoggs 'Chapter title' in X Yoggs (ed) Name of Book (London, Butterworths, 3rd edn, 1998) p 88.

 

Subsequent references in all cases should be to Bloggs, above n 2, p 6 (or Ibid, p 6 - only if referring to note immediately above).

 

Journal references

 

Journal references should be in the following form:

 

A Bloggs 'Name of article' (1993) 14 LS 281.

B Cloggs, D Doggs and E Floggs 'Name of article' (1993) 14 LS 281.

Journal titles quoted in full should italicised.

 

Statute References 

 

Statute references should be made in the following manner:

 

Badgers Act 1973, s 8(2)(a).

Counter-Inflation Act 1973, Pt II (ss 3-11 and Schs 4-6).

Finance Act 1965, s 19(1), Sch 7.

Prices Act 1974, Schedule.

Agriculture Act 1970, Sch 5, Pt II.

Gas Act 1972, Sch 4, para 35.

 

If one statute is referred to many times, use the following form: the Badgers Act 1973 (the Act) [and use 'the Act' for future refs], or the Badgers Act 1973 (the 1973 Act) and the Prices Act 1974 (the 1974 Act) [and use 'the 1973 Act' and 'the 1974 Act' thereafter]. For common acronyms - eg FA for Finance Act, etc - use the full name first, with the acronym in brackets and use the acronym thereafter.

 

Statutory Instruments should be referred to by name and date (ie short title) followed by the number - eg Local Authorities (Smallholdings) Order 1974, SI 1974/396 (note that as with statutes no comma should appear between the word 'Order' or 'Regulation', etc and the date.

 

Rules of court

 

Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 and the County Court Rules 1981 should be cited without reference to their SI number, eg:

RSC Ord 1.

RSC Ord 15, r 6A(4)(a).

CCR Ord 5. r 3(3)(b)(ii).

 

Cases

 

Each time a case is referred to in the text, the case reports must be set out in a footnote. One report reference is sufficient - and the Law Reports or the All England Law Reports are preferred, or the Weekly Law Reports if neither of the above as reported the case. 'v' for 'versus' should be lower case italic, without a full stop. 'Re' should be used in place of 'In re', 'In the matter of', etc. 'Ex parte' should be abbreviated to Ex p, with a cap E where it begins the case name and a lower case elsewhere, eg Ex p Green but R v Southampton Trustees, ex p Davies.

 

Where a case is subject to a discussion which requires repetitions of its name, its full title should be used initially but subsequent references may be abbreviated (and it need not be cited in a footnote each time, except for 'at' page references).

 

The conventional use of round or square brackets in conjunction with the date of the report should be followed - ie square brackets where the date is an essential part of the report citation but round brackets where the volumes of the series are independently numbered - eg [1972] Ch, [1983] 2 All ER, (1976) 65 Cr App R.

 

Footnotes and quotes

 

Footnote numbers should be placed after punctuation. If the footnote is referencing a quote, the footnote should come after the quotation marks.

 

Dates

 

Dates should be November 7^th 2006.

 

Miscellaneous  

 

When referring to pages in Journal, do not use 'p'; use p exclusively for monographs, books etc. So Ibid at 3, if referring to the 3rd page of an article cited in full in the previous footnote.  Also: 'at' only for Journal pages, for books etc, simply p.

 

Use above and below for cross-referencing (not supra and infra).

 

Text should be justified on both sides.