AGLC4 Rule 7.1.3: Royal Commission Reports

A royal commission report is cited without an author unless one is prominently identified, and no jurisdiction is added. Submissions to a royal commission are dealt with by rule 7.5.2.

AGLC4 page 108

Formatting

  • When no author is prominent the citation opens directly with the italic title; the commissioner is not named as author.
  • No jurisdiction abbreviation is added to the title or elsewhere.
  • The bracket holds the report type (for example Final Report, Interim Report, Report) and the date, which may be a month and year.
  • A volume pinpoint reads vol and the number, and a page, when given, follows after a comma and space.
  • The citation ends with a full stop.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 108
  1. 13
    Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption (Final Report, December 2015) vol 2. [Not: JD Heydon, Royal …]
  2. 14
    Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption (Interim Report, December 2014) vol 1.
  3. 15
    Royal Commission into Family Violence: Report and Recommendations (Report, March 2016) vol 3, 1–2.

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 108
  • [Not: JD Heydon, Royal …]
    the report does not prominently name the commissioner as its author, so no author is given

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.