Whenever you paraphrase or quote a source, or use the ideas of another person, you need to cite. In OSCOLA this includes:
Inserting a footnote marker after the full stop at the end of the sentence or after the work or phrase to which it relates.
At the bottom of the page, noting the footnote number and giving the full citation and ending it with a full stop.
At the end of your essay, a list of cases, a list of legislation (primary sources) and a list of books and journals (secondary resources)
Number your footnotes continuously throughout your document, starting at 1. When citing legislation, a footnote is not required if you have provided sufficient information about the source within your text.
Example Text:
It is well represented in the case law, perhaps most notably in the expression of the no conflict rule advocated by Lord Upjohn in Phipps v Boardman,31 and in the earlier Court of Appeal decision in Boulting v Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians.32 In Boulting [or in the Boulting case], Upjohn LJ said that the rule ‘must be applied realistically to a state of affairs which discloses a real conflict of duty and interest and not to some theoretical or rhetorical conflict’.33 In Phipps, Lord Upjohn developed his view of the rule further by adding that there must be a ‘real sensible possibility of conflict’.34
Example Footnotes:
31 [1967] 2 AC 46 (HL).
32 [1963] 2 QB 606 (CA).
33 Boulting (n 32) 638. OR 33 ibid 638.
34 Phipps (n 31) 124.
