With Medium Neutral Citation
• Only use when medium neutral citation was court allocated
• Use preferred unique court identifiers for Australian Supreme and superior Commonwealth courts (appendix B)
• Use paragraph numbers for pinpoint references
Without Medium Neutral Citation
• Use page numbers for pinpoint references
Proceedings
• Use the proceeding number assigned by the court
• Include only surnames of individuals (rule 2.1.1)
• Include only first plaintiff and first defendant if multiple parties (rule 2.1.1)
• Use Commonwealth, Western Australia, Queensland, etc (rule 2.1.3)
• Use 'R' to abbreviate the Queen or King (rule 2.1.4)
• Use a 'v' to separate party names
• Include full case name followed by shortened title (italicised and placed within single inverted commas and parentheses)
• Omit the case name in footnote citation if given in full in the essay text (rule 2.1.15)
The authorised version of the report should always be used where available.
The version of a case to be cited should follow the preference order below (from top to bottom):
| Version | Examples |
|---|---|
| Authorised report | CLR, FCR, NSWLR, VR,WAR |
| Generalist unauthorised report | ALR, AJLR, FLR, ACTR |
| Subject-specific unauthorised report | A Crim R, ACSR, IR, IPR |
| Unreported (medium neutral citation) | HCA, FCA, NSWSC, VSC |
| Unreported (no medium neutral citation) | See rule 2.3.2 |
The list of preferred unique court identifiers for Australian Supreme and superior Commonwealth courts is given in rule 2.3.1.
A more extensive list of current, commonly used Australian unique court identifiers is set out in appendix B.
Note: the online version of AGLC4 does not include Appendix B. This can only be found in the print version.
Standard format for footnote
With Medium Neutral Citation:
|
Case Name [ Year ] Unique Court Identifier Judgment Number , [Pinpoint] <URL>. |
Without Medium Neutral Citation:
|
Case Name ( Court , Judge , Full Date ) Pinpoint <URL>. |
Standard format for bibliography
With Medium Neutral Citation:
|
Case Name [ Year ] Unique Court Identifier Judgment Number |
Without Medium Neutral Citation:
|
Case Name ( Court , Judge , Full Date ) |
With Medium Neutral Citation
1 Hooper v Australian Electoral Commission [2015] HCASL 247.
2 R v De Gruchy [2006] VSCA 10, [4]–[5] (Vincent JA).
Without Medium Neutral Citation
3 Ross v Chambers (Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Kriewaldt J, 5 April 1956) 77–8.
4 Inquest into the Death of Helen Christine MacFarlaine (Coroner’s Court of Western Australia, Coroner Linton, 12 August 2015) [pinpoint].
Proceedings
4 Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v ACN 169418697 Pty Ltd (Federal Court of Australia, VID41/2018, commenced 19 January 2018).