AGLC4 Rule 14.6: Supranational Materials: Short Title and Subsequent References

Treaty short titles and subsequent references follow rule 8.8. Case short titles follow rule 2.1.14 and subsequent references to cases follow rule 1.4.1. EU documents and documents of other supranational bodies may take a short title under rule 1.4.4, with subsequent references in the rule 1.4.1 form. Ibid is used for all chapter 14 material.

AGLC4 page 210

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 210
Short Title (n Footnote Number) Pinpoint.

A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.

Formatting

  • The short title is italic, inside curly single quotation marks, inside round brackets, at the very end of the first citation, after any judge's name.
  • A subsequent reference is the italic short title, a space, (n and the footnote number), a space, the pinpoint and a full stop.
  • Ibid is used for all chapter 14 material.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 210
  1. 51
    Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, opened for signature 4 November 1950, 213 UNTS 221 (entered into force 3 September 1953), as amended by Protocol No 11 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, opened for signature 11 May 1994, ETS No 155 (entered into force 1 November 1998) (‘ECHR’).
  2. 52
    African Union, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Fair Trial and Legal Assistance in Africa, Doc No DOC/OS(XXX)247, 2003 (‘Guidelines to a Fair Trial’).
  3. 54
    ECHR (n 51) art 6.
  4. 55
    Guidelines to a Fair Trial (n 52) 4.
  5. 56
    El Boujaïdi v France [1997] VI Eur Court HR 1980, 1994 (Judge Foighel) (‘El Boujaïdi’).
  6. 58
    El Boujaïdi (n 56) 1992–3.
  7. 59
    Directive 2003/71/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 on the Prospectus to Be Published When Securities Are Offered to the Public or Admitted to Trading and Amending Directive 2001/34/EC [2003] OJ L 345/64 (‘European Prospectus Directive’).
  8. 61
    European Prospectus Directive (n 59) art 3(2).

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.