AGLC4 Rule 14.4.1: Other Supranational Courts and Tribunals: Decisions

Decisions of other supranational courts and tribunals are cited by parties' names, phase, then in parentheses the court, the case number and the full date, then a pinpoint. Names follow rules 2.1 and 10.2.2 and phases rule 10.2.3. The case number is given where available, labelled as the court labels it, and as much of the date as appears is included. Pinpoints are to paragraphs where they are numbered continuously, otherwise to pages.

AGLC4 page 205

Formatting

  • Parties' names are italic and reduced to the form required by rules 2.1 and 10.2.2.
  • The phase is italic, in italic round brackets, directly after the names.
  • Roman round brackets then hold the court, the case number and the full date, separated by commas.
  • The case number keeps the label the court uses, such as Case No, App No or Series No (as in Series C No 298).
  • Where there is no case number, the court is followed directly by a comma and the date.
  • Paragraph pinpoints go in square brackets after the closing bracket; page pinpoints are used only where paragraphs are not numbered continuously.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 205
  1. 36
    Omary v Tanzania (Merits) (African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, App No 001/2012, 3 June 2016).
  2. 37
    Rueda v Colombia (Provisional Measures) (Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 28 May 2014). [Not: In the Matter of Colombia regarding Danilo Rueda (Provisional Measures) …]
  3. 38
    Tomlinson v Belize (Judgment) (Caribbean Court of Justice, App No OA 1 of 2013, 10 June 2016).

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 205
  • In the Matter of Colombia regarding Danilo Rueda (Provisional Measures) …
    the parties' names must be reduced to the rule 2.1 and 10.2.2 form

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 205
  • ‘(Provisional Measures)’
  • ‘(Preliminary Objections)’
  • ‘(Jurisdiction)’/‘(Admissibility)’
  • ‘(Merits)’
  • ‘(Reparations)’
  • ‘(Costs)’
  • ‘(Judgment)’
  • ‘Case No’
  • ‘App No’
  • ‘Series No’

Elements of a decision of another supranational court or tribunal

Quoted from the Guide, page 205
ElementExample
Parties’ NamesGonzales Lluy v Ecuador
Phase(Judgment)
Name of Court or Tribunal(Inter-American Court of Human Rights,
Case NumberSeries C No 298,
Full Date1 September 2015)
Pinpoint[32]

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.