AGLC4 Rule 9.3.1: Decisions of UN Treaty Committees

A treaty committee's decision on an individual communication is cited under rule 9.2, with a short title always added in the form of the complainant's surname v the respondent state. Subsequent references use that short title together with the document number.

AGLC4 page 154

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 154
(Complainant’s Surname v Respondent State)

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

Formatting

  • The committee is named first as the author, roman, followed by a comma.
  • The decision title is italic.
  • A short title is always given, after the pinpoint: italic, in curly single quotation marks, inside round brackets.
  • The short title is the complainant's surname, an italic v, and the respondent state, all italic.
  • A subsequent reference is the italic short title, a comma, UN Doc and the number, n and the footnote number in round brackets, and the pinpoint.

Examples

Quoted from the Guide, page 154
  1. 38
    Human Rights Committee, Views: Communication No 1011/2001, 81st sess, UN Doc CCPR/C/81/D/1011/2001 (26 August 2004) 21 [9.8] (‘Madafferi v Australia’).
  2. 40
    Madafferi v Australia, UN Doc CCPR/C/81/D/1011/2001 (n 38) 22 [10].

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 154
  • ‘Madafferi v Australia’

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.