Vancouver Examples - Government and corporate documents - Case law

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In-text

Standard in-text citation examples are in Getting started - In-text citation.

If mentioning the case name in-text, italicise the parties names.

Example

In the case of Re: Carla14 it was decided …

Reference List

Case in an official report series

Template

Party Name v Party Name (year) volume Report Abbreviation # of first page.

Example
  1. Department of Health & Community Services v JWB & SMB (1992) 175 CLR 218.

Unreported case

Template

Party Name v Party Name [year] Court Abbreviation # of case.

Example
  1. Doorna & Z Hospital [2010] FamCA 604.

Note

Australian cases are first published in an unreported form, and selected cases are then republished in report series. If a reported version of the case is available, that should be cited.

If a report series doesn't have a volume number, put square brackets around the year.

Legal references in AMA11 style are based on The Bluebook, and the above is based on Bluebook Table 2.2.