AGLC4 Rule 1.5.2: Introducing Quotations
No special punctuation is needed to introduce a quotation; the sentence is punctuated as it would be without the quotation marks. The first letter of a quotation is a capital if it begins the sentence or is a complete sentence introduced by a colon, and lower case otherwise. If that changes the letter from the original, the altered letter goes in square brackets.
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Formatting
- A quotation that runs grammatically into the sentence takes no colon before it.
- A quotation presented as a separate statement may be introduced with a colon.
- Capital first letter where the quotation begins the sentence, or where it is a complete sentence introduced by a colon; otherwise lower case.
- A first letter whose case differs from the source is placed in square brackets: [T] or [m].
In the text
As the Privy Council commented: ‘it does not, in their Lordships’ opinion, assist to rationalise the defence … as concerned to protect security of receipts and then to derive from that rationalisation a limitation on the defence’.106 [Also: The Privy Council commented that ‘it does not, in … defence’.106]
The power that traffickers maintain over their victims is reinforced by the fact that
the women may not speak English, they have no money or passport, and may not even know where they are. This is compounded by the women’s distrust of authorities and the fear — deliberately cultivated — that the law enforcement agencies are involved with the traffickers …108
The court’s statement of the initial legal position provided the framework in which the parties chose the outcome:
[T]he immediate question faced by the courts is not what shall be done by whom but who has the legal right to do what. It is always possible to modify by transaction on the legal market the initial legal delimitation of rights.109
In Re Bolton, Brennan J observed that ‘[m]any of our fundamental freedoms are guaranteed by ancient principles of the common law’.111
Forms in the rule
Quoted from the Guide, page 17- ‘[m]any of our fundamental freedoms
See also
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Formats, examples, passages, tables and the forms marked Not are quoted from the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed, Melbourne University Law Review Association, 2018), with the page of the Guide they appear on. Titles, summaries and explanations are our own.