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Medium Neutral Citation

From 1 January 1999 the NSW Courts and Tribunals introduced a system of court designated medium neutral citation for all judgments and decisions contained within the NSW Caselaw system.


Citation

The form of citation used is:
    (short description of the parties) [year of decision] (court identifier) (sequential number of the judgment/decision)

An example of the form of citation for the first judgment given from 1 January 2005 in the Supreme Court is:
    Smith v Jones [2005] NSWSC 1


Court identifiers

The following court identifiers are used to distinguish each court and tribuanl:

NSWADTAdministrative Decisions Tribunal
NSWCCCompensation Court
NSWCACourt of Appeal
NSWCCACourt of Criminal Appeal
NSWDCDistrict Court
NSWDRGCDrug Court
NSWDDTDust Disease Tribunal
NSWFTTFair Trading Tribunal
NSWIRCommIndustrial Relations Commission
NSWLECLand and Environment Court
NSWLCLocal Court
NSWMTMedical Tribunal
NSWSCSupreme Court


Number series

The sequential judgment/decision numbers will commence from number 1 for the first judgment or decision in each calendar year. Each court and tribunal will have a separate number series.


Paragraph numbering

The paragraph number should appear at the beginning of each paragraph, without brackets or parentheses and to the left of the text margin. Headings should not be numbered.

A quotation within a judgment or decision should be treated as part of the numbered text of the paragraph to which it relates. Accordingly, quotations of whole paragraphs or passages incorporating a number of paragraphs should instead be indented.


Amended judgments and decisions

Modifications to a judgment or decision may be made where its author, after giving the judgment or decision, discovers a minor error and issues a revision or an amendment that describes the correction. Where this occurs the a notation be provided following the citation. Examples of how this is recorded is:
    Smith v Jones [2004] NSWSC 1 revised - 15/01/2004
    or
    Smith v Jones [2005] NSWSC 2
    This decision has been amended. Please see the end of the judgment for a list of the amendments.

Where a correction is made by the issue of an amendment, rather than a revision of the judgment or decision, the amended text will be inserted at the foot of the electronic version of the judgment or decision text.



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