AGLC4 Rule 2.6.1: Administrative Decisions

Cite decisions of administrative bodies and tribunals as reported or unreported cases under rules 2.2 and 2.3, allowing for their differences: parties may be joined by and, the title may be a number or code, and members may have titles such as Dr, Prof, Member or Senior Member. Omit members' initials or first names unless needed to avoid ambiguity.

AGLC4 page 63

Formatting

  • The decision's title is italic whatever its form, including a number or code.
  • Parties joined by and in the decision keep and, italic as part of the title.
  • Report or medium neutral citation elements follow rules 2.2 and 2.3.
  • A member with no other title takes Member, Deputy Member or Senior Member before the surname, with no full stop.
  • Other titles such as Dr or Prof go before the surname, with no full stop.
  • Judges sitting in a tribunal keep their rule 2.4.1 abbreviation after the surname.
  • Several decision-makers share one bracket, separated by commas with and before the last.
  • Initials or first names are added only to avoid ambiguity, following rule 4.1.1.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 63
  1. 109
    AAT Case 7422 (1991) 22 ATR 3450, 3456 [28].
  2. 110
    Re Pochi and Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1979) 26 ALR 247.
  3. 111
    Application by AAPT Ltd [No 2] [2009] ACompT 6, [6.1]–[6.5] (Finkelstein J, Member Davey and Prof Round).

In the text

Dr Gerber stated:

[W]hen dealing with rugby footballers, it seems to me to be a fruitless exercise to parse and analyse their every utterance … the spoken word — like the game itself — is rough at the best of times …109
Quoted from the Guide, page 63

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 63
  • ‘Member’, ‘Deputy Member’ and ‘Senior Member’

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.