Media neutral citation for major federal courts and tribunals.
(The second link at the foot of this box will give you a full list.)
FCA | Federal Court of Australia |
FCAFC | Full Court of above |
FamCA | Family Court of Australia |
HCA | High Court of Australia |
ACompT | Australian Competition Tribunal |
ACopyT | Australian Copyright Tribunal |
IRCA | Industrial Relations Court of Australia |
Neutral citations for state courts usually start with the province identifier
eg VCC County Court of Victoria, WASC Supreme Court of Western Australia etc
(The second link at the foot of this box will give you a full list.)
The abbreviations used for the current authorised (preferred) Australian law report series are:
CLR | Commonwealth Law Reports |
FCR | Federal Court Reports |
ACTR | Australian Capital Territory Rv |
NSWLR | New South Wales Law Reports |
NTLR | Northern Territory Law Reports |
Qd R | Queensland Reports |
SASR | South Australia State Reports |
Tas R | Tasmania Reports |
VR | Victoria Reports |
WAR | Western Australia Reports |
Other commonly encountered commercial report series are
ALR | Australian Law Reports |
ALJR | Australian Law Journal Reports |
FLR | Federal Law Reports |
FamLR | Family Law Reports |
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