AGLC4 Rule 25.1.5: Jurisdiction and Court Name
Where rules 25.1.5.1 and 25.1.5.2 call for them, the jurisdiction and court abbreviations go inside round brackets after the starting page and any pinpoint. The jurisdiction and court sit side by side with no punctuation, and a comma separates them from the year.
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Formatting
- Order inside the round brackets: jurisdiction, a space, court, then a comma and a space, then the year.
- No comma or other punctuation separates jurisdiction from court.
- Ordinal numbers in circuit names are written with superscript endings.
- Abbreviations carry no full stops.
Examples
Quoted from the Guide, page 266- 13The Garshman Co Ltd v General Electric Co, 176 F 3d 1 (1st Cir, 1999).
- 14McDonald v Bauman, 433 P 2d 437 (Kan, 1967).
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