AGLC

A reported case is a judgment that is published in a law report series. According to AGLC4 Rule 2.2.2, the authorised version of the case should always be used where available.

For more information about citing reported decisions, see Rule 2.2 starting at p 49.

Footnotes

Note Number	Case Name (Parties' Names)	(Year)	Volume	Law Report Abbreviation	Starting Page	, Pinpoint(s) (Judicial Officer/s).
1	Chamberlain v The Queen (No 2)	(1984)	153	CLR	521	, 585 (Brennan J).

Examples:

²     D'ath v TNT Australia Pty Ltd [1992] 1 Qd R 369, 371 (Master White).

³     Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1, 15 (Mason CJ and McHugh J), 19 (Brennan J).

⁴     Wentworth v Rogers [No 5] (1986) 6 NSWLR 534, 4 (Kirby P).

Bibliography

Case Name (Parties' Names)	(Year)	Volume	Law Report Abbreviation	Starting Page
Chamberlain v The Queen (No 2)	(1984)	153	CLR	521

Examples:

D'ath v TNT Australia Pty Ltd [1992] 1 Qd R 369

Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR1

Wentworth v Rogers [No 5] (1986) 6 NSWLR 534

General Rules

Case name (Rule 2.1)

• Place the case name in italics.
• Only the first plaintiff and first defendant should be cited (do not include '& Anor' or '& Ors').
• The Crown should be abbreviated to 'R' where the Crown is the first named party. Where the Crown is the respondent, 'The King' or 'The Queen' should be written.

Year and Volume (Rule 2.2.1)

• Round brackets are used around the year for law reports organised by volume number.
• Square brackets are used around the year for law reports organised by year (if more than one volume is produced in a year, include the volume number in the citation).

Law Report Series (Rule 2.2.2)

• The name of the report series is abbreviated – see Appendix A of AGLC4 for a list of abbreviations.
• The authorised version of the case should be used where available (Rule 2.2.2).
• Abbreviations for Report Series can be found in Appendix A (page 297) of AGLC4, and on the Monash Legal Abbreviations Guide.

Starting Page (Rule 2.2.4)

• The starting page of a case always forms part of the citation and is separate from the pinpoint.

Pinpoint (Rule 1.1.6)

• Footnotes should include a pinpoint reference when referring to a specific page, paragraph or section of a source.
• Pinpoint references to a page appear as a number.
• Pinpoint references to a paragraph should appear as a number within square brackets.
• Where appropriate, the judicial officer(s) whose judgement is being cited may be identified in brackets after a pinpoint reference (Rule 2.9.1). Do not include where their identity is otherwise apparent, for e.g. if they are identified in the text, or the pinpoint is an ibid citation below a full reference to the same judicial officer.

An unreported case is a decision which has not been published in a law report series. Unreported judgments use a medium-neutral style as shown below. Under Rule 2.2.2, a case should generally not be cited in medium-neutral style if it has been reported in a law report.

For more information about unreported cases, see Rule 2.3 starting at p 54.

Footnotes

Note Number	Case Name (Parties' Names)	[Year]	Unique Court Identifier	Judgment number	, [Pinpoint] (Judicial Officer/s).
1	Department of Police and Emergency Management v Greaves	[2009]	TASSC	77	, [11] (Tennent J).

Examples:

²     Re Culleton [No 2] [2017] HCA 4, [57] (Nettle J).

³     Jiang v Minister for Immigration [2019] FCCA 728, [7]-[9] (Barnes J).

Bibliography

Case Name (Parties' Names)	[Year]	Unique Court Identifier	Judgment Number
Department of Police and Emergency Management v Greaves	[2009]	TASSC	77

Examples:

Jiang v Minister for Immigration [2019] FCCA 728

Re Culleton [No 2] [2017] HCA 4

General Rules (Rule 2.3)

• Place the Parties' names in italics (Rule 2.1).
• Media neutral citations should only be used where the citation was allocated by the court itself. See the table on page 55 of AGLC 4 for a list of unique court identifiers and details on when the courts allocated medium neutral citations (Rule 2.3.1).
• Pinpoint references should appear as paragraph numbers (Rules 1.1.6-1.1.7) where they are surrounded by square brackets, e.g. [43] - [44]. When using pinpoints, the judicial officer(s) whose judgement is being cited should generally be identified in brackets after the pinpoint reference (Rule 2.4.1).