AGLC4 Rule 15.1.1: Cases: General Rule

Cite a Canadian case exactly as an Australian case under chapter 2. Adding the court at the end is optional and only helps where the report series does not already make the court obvious.

AGLC4 page 211

Formatting

  • The case name is italic and is followed by the citation with no comma between them.
  • A report series organised by year, such as SCR, takes the year in square brackets followed by the volume number.
  • The report abbreviation is roman and is followed by a space and the first page.
  • The citation ends with a full stop.
  • The court, when added under rule 2.2.6, goes at the end in round brackets, roman, written in full; leave it out for SCR and any other series that reports only one court.

Example

Quoted from the Guide, page 211
  1. 1
    R v Sharpe [2001] 1 SCR 45.

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.