Figure 2.2 EXAMPLES OF LAW CITATIONS
A Commonwealth Act
Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)
A Queensland Act
Property Law Act 1974 (Qld)
Section in a New South Wales Act
Sale of Goods Act 1923 (NSW) s 5
Sub-section in a Victorian Act
Sale of Land Act 1962 (Vic) s 16(2)
Decision of the High Court made in 1918 and reported in volume 24, page 362 of the
Commonwealth Law Reports (These reports use consecutive volume numbers)
Pierce v Cooper (1918) 24 CLR 362
The same High Court case published in the online High Court of Australia reports
(These reports use years as volume numbers)
Pierce v Cooper [1918] HCA 1
A pinpoint reference to page 365 of that case in the Commonwealth Law Reports
Pierce v Cooper (1918) 24 CLR 362, 365
A pinpoint reference to multiple pages of that case
Pierce v Cooper (1918) 24 CLR 362, 364-365