AGLC4 Rule 2.1.1: Parties’ Names: General Rule

Take the parties' names from the first page of the decision and write them in italics. For a person give only the surname, cite only the first named plaintiff and first named defendant, and where several actions were joined cite only the first action.

AGLC4 page 39

Formatting

  • The whole case name, both parties and the separating v, is italic.
  • Abbreviations inside the name carry no full stops (rule 1.6.1).
  • Capitalisation of the name follows rule 1.7.
  • A natural person is named by surname only; given names and initials are dropped.
  • Only the first plaintiff and the first defendant appear; no words such as and Ors, and Others or and Anor are added to signal further parties.
  • Where actions were joined and the report lists several names separated by semicolons, only the first action's name is cited.
  • The parties are separated by an italic lower case v with no full stop (rule 2.1.11).

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 39
  1. 1
    Momentum Productions Pty Ltd v Lewarne (2009) 174 FCR 268. [Not: Momentum Productions Pty Ltd v Richard John Lewarne …]
  2. 2
    Hot Holdings Pty Ltd v Creasy (1996) 185 CLR 149. [Not: Hot Holdings Pty Ltd v Creasy and Ors …]
  3. 3
    Tame v New South Wales (2002) 211 CLR 317. [Not: Tame v New South Wales; Annetts v Australian Stations Pty Ltd …]

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 39
  • [Not: Momentum Productions Pty Ltd v Richard John Lewarne …]
    a person's given names are included; only the surname is used
  • [Not: Hot Holdings Pty Ltd v Creasy and Ors …]
    further parties are signalled; only the first defendant is named
  • [Not: Tame v New South Wales; Annetts v Australian Stations Pty Ltd …]
    a second joined action is added; only the first action is cited

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.