AGLC4 Rule 7.3: Speeches

A speech is cited by the speaker, its title in quotation marks, and a bracket with the word Speech, the forum and the date. A named lecture uses its name in place of Speech, without a leading The and without any series number, and the city is given only where no forum is named.

AGLC4 page 113

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 113
Author, ‘Title’ (Speech, Institution/Forum, Full Date) Pinpoint.

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

Formatting

  • The speaker is roman, keeping any judicial or noble title the speaker used, such as Justice, Chief Justice or Lord, followed by a comma.
  • The title is roman in single curly quotation marks; terminal question marks stay inside the quotation marks.
  • The bracket begins with the word Speech, or with the lecture name when the speech is a named lecture.
  • A lecture name drops a leading The and any ordinal number in the series.
  • After a comma comes the institution or forum; when none is identified, the city or town of delivery is given instead, and when one is identified no city is added.
  • A comma then precedes the full date, and the bracket closes.
  • A pinpoint and then a URL in angle brackets may follow the bracket.
  • A speech later published in a journal or book is cited under chapters 5 and 6.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 113
  1. 41
    Justice Dyson Heydon, ‘Threats to Judicial Independence: The Enemy Within’ (Speech, Inner Temple, 23 January 2012). [Not: … Inner Temple, London …]
  2. 42
    Virginia Bell, ‘Section 80: The Great Constitutional Tautology’ (Lucinda Lecture, Monash University, 24 October 2013). [Not: … the Lucinda Lecture …]
  3. 43
    Lord Sumption, ‘The Limits of Law’ (Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture, Kuala Lumpur, 20 November 2013). [Not: … 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture …]
  4. 44
    Chief Justice Robert French, ‘Native Title: A Constitutional Shift?’ (JD Lecture Series, Melbourne Law School, 24 March 2009) <http://www.hcourt.gov.au/publications/speeches/current/speeches-by-chief-justice-french-ac>.

Not

Quoted from the Guide, page 113
  • [Not: … Inner Temple, London …]
    a forum is named, so the city is not added
  • [Not: … the Lucinda Lecture …]
    the article before the lecture name is dropped
  • [Not: … 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture …]
    the number of the lecture in its series is omitted

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.