AGLC4 Rule 2.3.4: Court Orders

A court order that is not part of a judgment may be cited by the judicial officers who made it, the case name, and the court, proceeding number and date of the order. Include the proceeding number only if it appears on the order, name every judicial officer who made the order, and cite the judgment instead where the order is contained in one.

AGLC4 page 57

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 57
Order of Judicial Officer(s) in Case Name (Court, Proceeding Number, Full Date of Court Order).

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

Formatting

  • The citation opens with Order of, roman, with a capital O.
  • Every judicial officer who made the order is named, roman, in the rule 2.4.1 form.
  • The word in, roman, precedes the italic case name.
  • Court, proceeding number and date of the order share one pair of round brackets, separated by a comma and a space.
  • The proceeding number is included only where it appears on the order.
  • The date is the date the order was made, day, month in words and year.
  • The citation ends with a full stop.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 57
  1. 88
    Order of Burley J in Seiko Epson Corporation v Calidad Pty Ltd (Federal Court of Australia, NSD1519/2004, 21 December 2016).
  2. 89
    Order of Murphy J in Duffy v Darmanin (Federal Court of Australia, VID1218/2017, 10 November 2017).
  3. 90
    Order of Kenny J in Duffy v Darmanin (Federal Court of Australia, VID1218/2017, 17 November 2017).

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.