The Court or Tribunal Abbreviation LISC recommends that standard abbreviations for courts and tribunals should be used. LISC recommends that decisions of Courts of Appeal and Full Courts should be distinguished from other decisions of state Supreme Courts by the addition of CA or FC to the Court abbreviation. LISC suggests that the commonly accepted abbreviations are used. The converse is true only for the Federal jurisdictions. This recommendation is for a consistent form of parallel citation using paragraph numbers in printed and electronic copies of judgments from Australian courts.
Page numbers are unsuitable in most cases for use in citations to judgments in electronic form.
Pinpoint citations to an electronic judgment must use another point of reference, such as the paragraph number of the judgment. Paragraph numbers in judgments will provide a convenient reference point to passages in printed copies of judgments as well as in electronic copies. If paragraph numbers are applied by the Court at the time of publication of the judgment, it will provide a consistent reference point for citations in all versions of the judgment, regardless of publisher or publishing medium. Paragraph numbers provide an additional method of citation along with page numbers which will continue to be useful for references to judgments in printed reports. It is desirable that uniform methods should be adopted for the use of paragraph numbers in pinpoint citations.