AGLC4 Rule 2.3.3: Proceedings

A proceeding with no judgment or order yet, or one discontinued before any judgment or order, may be cited by case name, court, proceeding number and the date it began. The proceeding number is the court's own number for the matter.

AGLC4 page 57

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 57
Case Name (Court, Proceeding Number, commenced Full Date).

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

Formatting

  • The case name is italic; the bracketed details are roman.
  • Court, proceeding number and commencement date share one pair of round brackets, separated by a comma and a space.
  • The court is named in full.
  • The proceeding number is written with no spaces.
  • The date is introduced by the lower case word commenced.
  • The date is day, month in words and year.
  • The citation ends with a full stop after the closing bracket.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 57
  1. 85
    Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Olex Australia Pty Ltd (Federal Court of Australia, VID725/2014, commenced 3 December 2014).
  2. 86
    Automotive Food Metals Engineering Printing and Kindred Industries Union v Beynon (Federal Court of Australia, VID466/2010, commenced 15 June 2010).
  3. 87
    Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v ACN 169418697 Pty Ltd (Federal Court of Australia, VID41/2018, commenced 19 January 2018).

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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.