AGLC4 Rule 2.4.1: Identifying Judicial Officers and Counsel: Identifying Judicial Officers
When pinpointing, name in round brackets after the pinpoint the judicial officer or officers whose reasons are cited, unless that is already clear. Give the office held at the time of the decision, using the abbreviations in the table after the surname, or the full title before the surname for titles marked with an asterisk. Never use Per, honorifics or as he or she then was.
AGLC4 page 58
Formatting
- The judge bracket is roman, in round brackets, one space after the pinpoint.
- The surname is followed by the office abbreviation from the table, with no full stops.
- Titles marked with an asterisk in the table are written in full before the surname instead.
- The abbreviations are used in body text as well as citations, even at the start of a sentence.
- A first name or initials are added only where they appear on the case and are needed to distinguish judges.
- The office held at the time of the decision is used, never a later one.
- Per, honorifics such as the Hon, and as he or she then was are never used.
- Where different pinpoints belong to different judges, each pinpoint is followed by its own judge bracket and the groups are separated by commas.
- Judges of different offices sitting in one joint judgment are listed in order with commas and a final and, each group taking its own title.
- The judge may be left out where the text, an ibid or a single trial judge already makes the author plain, but must be given wherever more than one judgment appears at the pinpoint.
- United Kingdom judicial offices follow rule 24.1.6, and judges writing extra-curially follow rule 4.1.5.
Examples
Quoted from the Guide, page 58- 91Kartinyeri v Commonwealth (1998) 195 CLR 337, 383, 385–6 (Gummow and Hayne JJ), 386 (Kirby J).
- 92R v Merritt (2004) 59 NSWLR 557, 567 [35]–[38] (Wood CJ at CL).
- 93Ottobrino v Espinoza (1995) 14 WAR 373, 377 (Commissioner Buss).
- 94Re Zoudi (2006) 14 VR 580, 587–9 [24]–[28] (Maxwell P, Buchanan, Nettle, Neave and Redlich JJA).
- 95R v Hoxha (Victorian Court of Appeal, Charles, Callaway JJA and Vincent AJA, 1 November 1995).
Forms in the rule
Quoted from the Guide, page 58- ‘Per’ should not be used.
- Honorifics (such as ‘the Hon’)
- ‘as he/she then was’
Abbreviations and titles for judicial offices (an asterisk means the title is written in full before the name)
Quoted from the Guide, page 58| Judicial Office | Abbreviation/Title |
|---|---|
| Acting Chief Justice | ACJ |
| Acting Justice of Appeal | AJA |
| Acting Justices of Appeal | AJJA |
| Acting Justice | AJ |
| Acting Justices | AJJ |
| Acting President | AP |
| Associate Justice | AsJ |
| Auxiliary Judge | AUJ |
| Chief Judge Administrator | CJA |
| Chief Judge at Common Law | CJ at CL |
| Chief Judge in Equity | CJ in Eq |
| Chief Judge of the Commercial Division | CJ Comm D |
| Chief Justice | CJ |
| Commissioner | Commissioner* |
| Deputy Chief Justice/District Court Judge | DCJ |
| Federal Magistrate | FM |
| Judge | Judge* |
| Judicial Registrar | JR |
| Justice of Appeal | JA |
| Justices of Appeal | JJA |
| Justice | J |
| Justices | JJ |
| Magistrate | Magistrate* |
| Master | Master* |
| President | P |
| Senior Judge Administrator | SJA |
| Senior Judge | SJ |
| Senior Judges | SJJ |
| Senior Puisne Judge | SPJ |
| Vice-President | V-P |
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.