AGLC4 Rule 16.2.2: Cases: Report Series

Decisions of the Supreme People's Court should be cited from an official government gazette where one is available; other Chinese decisions should be cited from a report series where available.

AGLC4 page 222

Formatting

  • The series name is given in characters, roman, followed by its translation in square brackets.
  • Where the court is added, it goes in round brackets after the starting page and may include the city, province and country.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 222
  1. 5
    «家园公司诉森得瑞公司合同纠纷案» [Jiayuan Co v Senderui Co — Contract Dispute Case] [2007] 2 中华人民共和国最高人民法院公报 [Gazette of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China] 39, 41.
  2. 6
    «杨建立, 魏铃故意杀人案» [Yang Jianli, Wei Ling — Intentional Homicide Case] [2002] 4 人民法院案例选 [Selected Cases of the People’s Courts] 7 (Zheng Zhou City, He Nan Province Intermediate People’s Court, People’s Republic of China).

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 222
  • 中华人民共和国最高人民法院公报 [Zhong Hua Ren Min Gong He Guo Zui Gao Ren Min Fa Yuan Gong Bao — Gazette of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China]
  • 人民法院案例选 [Ren Min Fa Yuan An Li Xuan — Selected Cases of the People’s Courts]

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.