AGLC4 Rule 9.3.2: Parties’ Communications and Submissions

A party's communication or submission to a treaty committee is cited by its author, quoted title, document type addressed to the committee in the named case, full date and pinpoint. The document type is usually Submission or Communication. Pinpoints are to paragraphs where they exist, otherwise to pages, and a URL may be added.

AGLC4 page 155

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 155
Author, ‘Document Title’, Document Type to the UN Committee in Complainant’s Surname v Respondent State, 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 author is roman, followed by a comma.
  • The document title is roman in curly single quotation marks, followed by a comma; italic words within it, such as a treaty name, stay italic.
  • The document type is roman and capitalised, followed by the words to the and the committee's name, roman.
  • The word in then introduces the case, with the complainant's surname, v and the respondent state all italic.
  • A comma separates the case from the full date, and another comma separates the date from the pinpoint.
  • Pinpoints are to paragraphs in square brackets where they exist, otherwise to pages.
  • A URL may follow the date or pinpoint (rules 4.4 and 4.5).

Example

Quoted from the Guide, page 155
  1. 41
    Human Rights Law Resource Centre, ‘Individual Communication under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — Original Communication’, Communication to the Human Rights Committee in Nystrom v Australia, 4 April 2007, [77]–[103].

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 155
  • ‘Submission’
  • ‘Communication’

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.