Usage

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This template links to a variety of different case reports located on the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) website. You should look up the case you wish to cite on AustLII, then refer to the URL of the web page on which the case appears to fill in the information required by the template.

Templates

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The template should be used as follows:

{{cite AustLII|litigants=|link=|SOURCE|NUM|YEAR|pinpoint=|parallelcite=|date=|courtname=|juris=|ref=}}

or

{{cite AustLII|litigants=|link=|source=|num=|year=|pinpoint=|parallelcite=|date=|courtname=|juris=|ref=}}

or

{{cite AustLII|litigants=|link=|court=|num=|year=|pinpoint=|parallelcite=|date=|courtname=|juris=|ref=}}

"SOURCE" is a code representing the court or tribunal (see the list below), "NUM" is the medium-neutral item number, and "YEAR" is the year in which the judgment or transcript was published.

Note: ensure that no spaces appear around the parameters, or the template will not work.

The deprecated CLR and hcatranscripts functions are supported for legacy reasons only and should no longer be used. Links generated by these functions lead to a search page on the AustLII site as the former URL schema which supported these functions no longer exists. Existing uses of these functions should be updated accordingly.

Parameters

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All parameters are optional unless otherwise specified.

Parameter Description
Case name
litigants The names of the litigants separated with v for versus (in other words, the case name), like this: "Commonwealth v Tasmania".
link The name of a Wikipedia article about the case, for example: "Commonwealth v Tasmania". This will be linked to the names of the litigants specified using the |litigants= parameter.
AustLII link
source
or
court
Mandatory: The code used by AustLII indicating the source of the case, as follows:
Code Source Dates available
AATA Administrative Appeals Tribunal 1976–
ACAT Australian Capital Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal 2009–
ACompT Australian Competition Tribunal 1997–
ACTCA Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory – Court of Appeal 2002–
ACTSCFC Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory (Full Court) 2014–
ACTSC Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory 1986–
ADO Australian Design Office 1982–
AICmr Australian Information Commissioner 2011–
AIRC Australian Industrial Relations Commission 1983–2009
APO Australian Patent Office 1981–
ATMO Australian Trade Marks Office 1991–
CLR Commonwealth Law Reports 1903–
FamCA Family Court of Australia 1988–
FamCAFC Full Court of the Family Court of Australia 2008–
FCA Federal Court of Australia 1977–
FCAFC Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia 2002–
FedCFamC1A Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia - Division 1 Appellate Jurisdiction 2021–
FedCFamC1F Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia - Division 1 First Instance 2021-
FedCFamC2F Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia - Division 2 Family Law 2021-
FedCFamC2G Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia - Division 2 General Federal Law 2021-
FCCA Federal Circuit Court of Australia 2013–
FMCA Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia 2000–2013
FMCAfam Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia – Family Law Decisions 2000–
FWAFB Fair Work Australia - Full Bench 2009–2012
FWCFB Fair Work Commission - Full Bench 2013–
HCA High Court of Australia 1903–
HCASL High Court of Australia Special Leave Dispositions 2008 –
HCATrans High Court of Australia Transcripts 1994 –
HREOCA Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 1985–
NFSC Supreme Court of Norfolk Island 1996–
NNTTA National Native Title Tribunal 1994–
NSWCA Supreme Court of New South Wales – Court of Appeal 1999–
NSWCATOD NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division 2014–
NSWCCA Supreme Court of New South Wales – Court of Criminal Appeal 1999–
NSWDC District Court of New South Wales 1999–
NSWIRComm Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales 1985–
NSWLEC Land and Environment Court of New South Wales 1987–
NSWLawRp Supreme Court of New South Wales 1859–1900
NSWSC Supreme Court of New South Wales 1995–
NSWStRp Supreme Court of New South Wales 1901–1950
NSWSupC Supreme Court of New South Wales 1788–1899
NTCA Supreme Court of the Northern Territory – Court of Appeal 2000–
NTCCA Supreme Court of the Northern Territory – Court of Criminal Appeal 2000–
NTSC Supreme Court of the Northern Territory 1986–
QCA Supreme Court of Queensland – Court of Appeal 1994–
QDC District Court of Queensland 1994–
QLPT Queensland Legal Practice Tribunal 2004–2009
QSC Supreme Court of Queensland 1998–
RRTA Refugee Review Tribunal 1993–2015
SADC District Court of South Australia 1992–
SASC Supreme Court of South Australia 1989–
SASCFC Supreme Court of South Australia (Full Court) 2010–
SAStRp Supreme Court of South Australia 1920–1950
TASCD Coroners Court of Tasmania 1991–
TASFPT Forest Practices Tribunal of Tasmania 1994–2011
TASLawRp Tasmanian Law Reports, Supreme Court of Tasmania 1897–1940
TASRp Tasmanian Reports, Supreme Court of Tasmania 1958–1991
TASSC Supreme Court of Tasmania 1987–
TASSupC Supreme Court of Tasmania 1824–1843
TASStRp Tasmanian State Reports, Supreme Court of Tasmania 1941-1978
UKPCHCA Privy Council 1903–1980
VCAT Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal 1998–
VicLawRp Victorian Law Reports, Supreme Court of Victoria 1874–1956
VicRp Victorian Reports, Supreme Court of Victoria 1953–1996
VicSC Supreme Court of Victoria 1953-1998
VSC Supreme Court of Victoria 1998–
VSCA Supreme Court of Victoria – Court of Appeal 1998–
WALawRp Western Australian Law Reports Supreme Court of Western Australia 1899-1959
WASC Supreme Court of Western Australia 1999–
WASCA Supreme Court of Western Australia – Court of Appeal 1999–

The template currently only handles cases decided by the above courts or reported by the above series of law reports. Please update the template if you wish to include additional courts, or leave a message on the talk page if you need help with this.

num Mandatory: the medium-neutral item number of the case.
year Mandatory: the year of the case.
Other information
pinpoint The page or paragraph number at which information or a quotation you are referring to appears, like this: "528", "p 528" or "para 25". When referring to a range of pages or paragraph numbers, separate the starting and ending numbers with an en dash like this: "528–530".
date The date that the case was decided. You may enter the date in any format accepted by the template {{date}}, such as "1 July 1983" or "1983-07-01". It will appear a day-month-year format.
parallelcite Parallel citations to the case. Separate the citations with commas, like this: "205 CLR 337, 176 ALR 644, 75 ALJR 277".
courtname The court that decided the case. The name of the court can be wikilinked, like this: "[[High Court of Australia|High Court]]".

To have the template automatically indicate the court and jurisdiction of a case, type "courtname=auto". For Privy Council decisions, to indicate the jurisdiction from which the case was appealed, use |juris= together with "|courtname=auto" (for example, |juris=Vic.); if the parameter is omitted, the template indicates "on appeal from Australia".

juris The jurisdiction that decided the case, such as "Australia" or "New South Wales". It is unnecessary to use this parameter if you are already using "|courtname=auto", unless you wish to specify the jurisdiction from which an appeal to the Privy Council originated: see |courtname=.
ref This is equivalent to the corresponding parameter in Citation Style 1 templates. Use |ref={{sfnref|short reference text}} to link a citation with the corresponding inline callout {{sfn|short reference text}}. Do not place quotes around the ref value. The values |ref=harv and |ref=none do not have any special meaning.

Examples

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Wikitext Result
{{cite AustLII|litigants=Love v Commonwealth|link=Love v Commonwealth|source=HCA|num=2|year=2020|pinpoint=[80]|parallelcite=(2020) 270 CLR 152, 192|date=11 February 2020|courtname=auto|juris=auto}} Love v Commonwealth [2020] HCA 2 at [80], (2020) 270 CLR 152, 192 (11 February 2020), High Court (Australia)
{{cite AustLII|litigants=Commonwealth v Tasmania|link=Commonwealth v Tasmania|court=HCA|year=1983|num=21|parallelcite=(1983) 158 CLR 1|date=1 July 1983|courtname=HC}} Commonwealth v Tasmania [1983] HCA 21, (1983) 158 CLR 1 (1 July 1983), HC
{{cite AustLII|litigants=Minister of State for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs v Teoh|link=Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Teoh|HCATrans|num=88|year=1994|parallelcite=P20/1994|date=24 October 1994|courtname=auto}} Minister of State for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs v Teoh [1994] HCATrans 88, P20/1994 (24 October 1994), High Court (Australia)
{{cite AustLII|litigants=Webb v Outtrim|link=Deakin v Webb#Webb v Outtrim in the Privy Council|court=UKPCHCA|year=1906|num=4|parallelcite=(1906) 4 [[Commonwealth Law Reports|CLR]] 356|courtname=auto|juris=Vic}} Webb v Outtrim [1906] UKPCHCA 4, (1906) 4 CLR 356, Privy Council (on appeal from Vic, Australia)
{{cite AustLII|litigants=Griffin v Matthews|court=NSWCA|year=2012|num=348|courtname=auto}} Griffin v Matthews [2012] NSWCA 348, Court of Appeal (NSW, Australia)
{{cite AustLII|VSC|508|2004|pinpoint=para. 38|courtname=[[Supreme Court of Victoria|SC]]|juris=Vic}} [2004] VSC 508 at para. 38, SC (Vic)

TemplateData

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Generates links to a variety of different case reports located on the AustLII website.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
litigantslitigants

The names of the litigants separated with v for versus (in other words, the case name).

Example
Commonwealth v Tasmania
Stringsuggested
linklink

The name of a Wikipedia article about the case which will be linked from the names of the litigants.

Example
Commonwealth v Tasmania
Stringsuggested
sourcesource court 1

The abbreviation used by AustLII indicating the source of the case.

Example
FCAFC
Stringrequired
numnum 2

The medium-neutral item number of the case.

Numberrequired
yearyear 3

The year of the case.

Numberrequired
pinpointpinpoint

The page or paragraph number at which information or a quotation you are referring to appears. When referring to a range of pages or paragraph numbers, separate the starting and ending numbers with an en dash like this: "528–530".

Example
528, p 528, pp 528–530, or para 25
Stringoptional
datedate

The date that the case was decided.

Example
1 July 1983 or 1983-07-01
Dateoptional
parallelciteparallelcite

Parallel citations to the case.

Example
205 CLR 337, 176 ALR 644, 75 ALJR 277
Stringoptional
courtnamecourtname

The court that decided the case. The name of the court can be wikilinked.

Example
[[High Court of Australia|High Court]]
Auto value
auto
Unknownoptional
jurisjuris

The jurisdiction that decided the case. Unnecessary if "courtname=auto", unless you wish to specify the jurisdiction from which an appeal to the Privy Council originated.

Example
Australia or New South Wales
Stringoptional

See also

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