AGLC4 Rule 25.1.8: Cases: Identifying Judges

Judges are identified as in rules 2.4.1 to 2.4.3. In federal courts the titles Judge, Assistant Justice and Circuit Judge are all abbreviated J, Presiding Judge becomes PJ, and Judge Administrative Director of the Courts becomes JAD.

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Formatting

  • The judge's surname and abbreviated title sit in round brackets directly after the pinpoint.
  • For a reported case the judges' bracket comes before the court and year bracket.
  • For an unreported case the judges' bracket follows the pinpoint that comes after the court bracket.
  • Title abbreviations follow the surname with no full stops.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 271
  1. 29
    Re Gault, 387 US 1, 13–14, 27–8 (Fortas J) (1967).
  2. 30
    City of Birmingham v Citigroup Inc (ND Ala, No CV-09-BE-467-S, 19 August 2009) 3 (Bowdre J).
  3. 31
    Werth v Taylor, 475 NW 2d 426, 430 (Neff PJ) (Mich Ct App, 1991).

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 271
  • J
  • PJ
  • JAD

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.