Cases

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Last updated: 6 March 2024

Reported

For reported cases, include the:

Case name: Full name of case in italics.
Year: Volumes of law report series are organised either by year or by volume number. For volumes of law report series organised by year, square brackets are used around the year. If the law report series is organised by volume number, the year in which the decision was handed down (or often the year in which the case was reported) is provided in round brackets.
Volume number
Abbreviation of report series: Report series have abbreviations that are used in citations. For instance, Commonwealth Law Reports will always appear as CLR in a citation.
First page of the case
Pinpoint: If required, refer to the page or paragraph number.

Case Name (year) or [year] Volume number Abbreviation of report series First page of case, pinpoint.

¹⁷Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (NSW) v Mimer (Ion 145) Pty Ltd (1991) 24 NSWLR 510.

²³Breen v Williams (1995) 186 CLR 71, 113.

³⁴Beattie v Ball [1999] 3 VR 1.

Medium neutral citation is a citation system that does not depend on the publisher or the medium of the source. This style is allocated by the court.

Cite unreported cases only if no reported version is available.

Case name: Full name of case in italics.
Year: Place in square brackets.
Unique court identifier: See AGLC rule 2.3.1 and Appendix B for a list of unique court identifiers.
Judgement number
Pinpoint: If required, refer to the paragraph number.

Case name [year] Unique court identifier Judgement number, [pinpoint].

¹³ Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria v Gibson [2017] FCA 240, [120].

For more information about decisions with medium neutral citations, see AGLC rule 2.3.1.

For information about unreported cases without a medium neutral citation, see AGLC rule 2.3.2.