AGLC4 Rule 10.5: International Court of Justice and Permanent Court of International Justice: Short Title and Subsequent References

ICJ and PCIJ decisions take short titles under rule 2.1.14, and other material in the chapter under rule 1.4.4. Subsequent references follow rule 1.4.1 and Ibid follows rule 1.4.3.

AGLC4 page 169

Formatting

  • A short title for a decision is italic, in curly single quotation marks, inside round brackets, after the pinpoint.
  • A subsequent reference to a decision is the italic short title, n and the footnote number in round brackets, the pinpoint, and the judge in round brackets where the passage is from an opinion.
  • A subsequent reference to a pleading gives the roman document title in curly single quotation marks, n and the footnote number in round brackets, and the pinpoint.
  • Ibid is followed by the pinpoint after a space.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 169
  1. 36
    Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations (Advisory Opinion) [1949] ICJ Rep 174, 178 (‘Reparations’).
  2. 37
    Ibid 179.
  3. 38
    ‘Memorial of Nicaragua’, Border and Transborder Armed Actions (Nicaragua v Costa Rica) [1987] ICJ Pleadings 9, 55.
  4. 39
    Ibid 56–7.
  5. 41
    Reparations (n 36) 198 (Judge Hackworth).
  6. 42
    ‘Memorial of Nicaragua’ (n 38) 17.

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 169
  • ‘Ibid’
  • ‘Reparations’

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.