AGLC4 Rule 10.2.2: Parties’ Names or Advisory Opinion

After the case name, give the parties as they appear on the first page of the report, however elaborate, separated by v. If the first page does not name them, use conventional short names unless the full name is needed for clarity. For joined cases give only the parties to the first listed case, and for an advisory opinion write Advisory Opinion in place of parties.

AGLC4 page 160

Formatting

  • The parties are italic, inside italic round brackets, one space after the case name.
  • The parties are separated by an italic lower case v with no full stop.
  • Party names follow the first page of the report; where it gives none, conventional short state names are used unless ambiguity requires the full name.
  • Joined cases list only the parties to the first listed case.
  • An advisory opinion takes the italic bracketed words Advisory Opinion instead of parties, and then has no separate phase.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 160
  1. 5
    Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v Yugoslavia) (Preliminary Objections) [1996] ICJ Rep 595.
  2. 6
    North Sea Continental Shelf (Federal Republic of Germany v Denmark) (Merits) [1969] ICJ Rep 3. [Not: … (Federal Republic of Germany v Denmark; Federal Republic of Germany v Netherlands) …]
  3. 7
    Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Advisory Opinion) [2004] ICJ Rep 136.

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 160
  • [Not: … (Federal Republic of Germany v Denmark; Federal Republic of Germany v Netherlands) …]
    joined cases name only the parties to the first listed case

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 160
  • ‘v’
  • ‘Zimbabwe’
  • ‘(Advisory Opinion)’

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.