AGLC4 Rule 2.1.8: Re

Shorten procedural openings such as In re and In the matter of to Re. Re marks a proceeding about a matter, such as an estate or a trust, rather than a contest between named parties.

AGLC4 page 43

Formatting

  • Re is italic as part of the case name, with a capital R and no full stop.
  • Re replaces In re and In the matter of; those longer forms are never used.
  • Where a case name combines a matter and an adversarial title, the parts are joined by a semicolon and a space and all parts are italic.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 43
  1. 25
    Re Judiciary and Navigation Acts (1921) 29 CLR 257. [Not: In re Judiciary and Navigation Acts …]
  2. 26
    Re Palmer; George v McIntyre (1902) 2 SR (NSW) 200.

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 43
  • [Not: In re Judiciary and Navigation Acts …]
    the procedural opening is not shortened to Re

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 43
  • ‘In re’ and ‘In the matter of ’

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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.