AGLC4 Rule 24.1.1: Cases: General Rule

Cite United Kingdom cases under chapter 2. Public Limited Company is shortened to plc in party names, and a judicial review case from 2001 onward reported as R on the application of a party is written as R with that party's name in round brackets.

AGLC4 page 251

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 251
R ( Name of Party Seeking Judicial Review )

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

Formatting

  • The whole case name is italic, including plc, the letter R and the round brackets around the applicant's name.
  • plc is lower case with no full stops.
  • In the judicial review form, R is followed by a space and the applicant's name in round brackets, then v and the respondent.
  • Series organised by year take a square-bracket year before the volume.
  • A page pinpoint range drops repeated digits, and a paragraph pinpoint in square brackets follows the page after a space.
  • The judge follows in round brackets.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 251
  1. 1
    CAS (Nominees) Ltd v Nottingham Forest plc [2001] 1 All ER 954.
  2. 2
    R (Amin) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2004] 1 AC 653, 673–4 [39] (Lord Bingham).

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 251
  • ‘R (Anderson)’

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.