The best way to reference Halsbury’s in Harvard style is to treat it as an encyclopaedia or reference book, since that’s essentially what it is. We therefore recommend including the following information in your in-text citation:
Title (because there is no author)
Year
Volume #
Paragraph #
So for example if you were referencing the paragraph in volume 47A on Retention and assimilation of EU law into domestic law, your in-text citation would be: (Halsbury’s Laws of England, 2022, 47A, 16). If you want to pinpoint down to a subsection within the paragraph, do this in brackets after the paragraph number. So for example:
Halsbury's Laws of England (2022, 47A, 16(21)) clarifies that "'Domestic law' means the law of England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland".
As volumes of Halsbury's are updated at different times, we recommend including a reference for each volume used. For the example above, your reference list entry would be:
Halsbury’s Laws of England Volume 47A: European Union (2022) London: Lexis Nexis.
Further guidance on referencing reference works and encyclopaedia in Harvard is available via Cite Them Right.
