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Australian AND New Zealand Legal Abbreviations: Second Edition
Australian AND New Zealand Legal Abbreviations: Second Edition
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NEW ZEALAND
LEGAL ABBREVIATIONS
Second Edition
COLIN FONG
Research Librarian
Allen Allen & Hemsley, Sydney
Consultant, Australian Current Law
and
ALAN J EDWARDS
Law Librarian
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand
SYDNEY
Australian Law Librarians' Group
New South Wales Division
1995
Published by: Australian Law Librarians' Group
New South Wales Branch
PO Box 78
St Paul's NSW 2031
AUSTRALIA
Also available in and updated by Kavass, II & Prince, MM (eds) World dictionary of legal
abbreviations, Buffalo, NY, Hein, 1991 - (Looseleaf)
Fong, Colin
Australian and New Zealand legal abbreviations
2nd ed
Bibliography
ISBN 0 9591359 8 7
349.90148
The University of New South Wales Law Library catalogued this work with the following Moys classification: K 112.
©Copyright. Not to be reproduced without permission of Colin Fong and Alan Edwards.
The list of abbreviations includes what is intended to be a comprehensive coverage of Australian and New Zealand legal
abbreviations. It began as a preliminary list in June 1979 (No. 32 ALLG Newsletter), was revised in July 1982 (No 50 ALLG
Newsletter), was separately published in 1986, and appeared with the present title in 1988. This edition represents almost a
hundred per cent increase in entries to the previous edition. Incorporated in the list are non-Australian and New Zealand
law journals which regularly carry Australian and New Zealand content and/or have Australians or New Zealanders serving
on their editorial/advisory boards or as correspondents. As well, a selected number of non-law periodicals which feature
articles of relevance to legal practice in Australia and New Zealand on a regular basis are included.
The work supplements such publications as Raistrick, D. Index to legal citations and abbreviations, 2nd ed, 1993; Bieber,
DM Dictionary of legal abbreviations used in American law books, 4th ed, 1993. This work should prove useful for
reference work and also for identifying items on publishers' invoices and union lists. Of particular interest are the small but
increasing references to electronic publications.
In most cases, the publishers' preferred abbreviations are used. In a small number of instances, where standard
abbreviations are not available, the compilers took the liberty of inventing them. However, there are now many newsletters
and other serials which have no recognised abbreviations. In some cases, more than one abbreviation is used. Ours is not
to reason why some non-standard abbreviations are used eg. Austl LJ by the Index to Legal Periodicals. Spaces have been
created between entries to allow for insertions. The majority of entries are of Australian origin. Where there is ambiguity,
New Zealand is indicated in parentheses.
The following is the accepted form of citation for unreported judgments, which are now heavily used in all kinds of legal
work and study. The generally accepted form (which enables one to order the judgment from the court registries) is:
names of parties/court name/ registry/registry filing number/
date of judgment/judge.
This work was partly updated via regular correspondence on the Internet. We wish to acknowledge assistance from many
librarians in particular Jackie Patrick and law publishers in the preparation of this publication. Thanks to Deirdre Sutherland
and Maureen Yum of Allen Allen and Hemsley for "keying" in the text, and to the University of Otago for assistance with
Alan Edwards' contribution.
As to the next edition, we hope to publish this in the year 2000 when Sydney hosts the Summer Olympics and New Zealand
defends the America's Cup. However a 3rd edition print version may not eventuate if this work becomes available
electronically in the near future. Watch this space!
14 September 1995
Page 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction iii
Abbreviations 1
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ABBREVIATIONS
-A-
AA Affirmative Action
AATCA
- 10 -
Advoc Advocate/Advocacy
- 19 -
(The) Age The Age (newspaper) (David Syme & Co Ltd, 1855-
Melbourne)
A-G Attorney-General
Air & Space L Air and Space Law (Kluwer, Deventer, The 1976-
Netherlands, formerly Air Law 1976-1991)
AITL & P Australian Income Tax Law and Practice (Butt - 1975-1991
replaced by Australian Tax Practice Commentary
1991-)
Ann Surv of Annual Survey of Australian Law (LBC, from 1992 1981-
Aust Law published by Adelaide Law Review Association
formerly Annual Survey of Law)
@ uow.ed.au
ASTN New South Wales and ACT Stamp Duties (CCH) 1991-
Atty-Gen Attorney-General
Aust Comp Law Australian Company Law Cases (CCH - ACLC 1982-
Cases preferred)
Aust HC & Fed Australian High Court and Federal Court Practice 1978-
Ct Prac (CCH)
Aust Law News Australian Law News (Law Council of Australia; 1977-
now Australian Lawyer)
Aust Super Rev Australian Super Review (Reed Business Publishing; 1986-1994
succeeded by Super Review 1994-)
-B-
BJ Bachelor of Jurisprudence
Bk Aw See BA
-C-
CA Court of Appeal
CB See BCB
CC Close Corporation
CC City Council
CCH NSW New South Wales Conveyancing Law and Practice 1980-
Conv R (CCH - Loose-leaf pages of cases are located
in Vol 2)
cl/cll clause/s
CL See BCL
CL Commercial List
Co Company
Co D Company Director
Commn Commission
Commr Commissioner
- 66 -
- 67 -
Compn Compensation
corpn corporation
Coy Company
CPPN Criminal Practice & Procedure New South Wales (Butt) 1989-
Ct Court
CTH/Cth Commonwealth
Current
Review See LBC's Indust Arb Serv (Current Review)
C'wealth Commonwealth
Cwlth Commonwealth
Cwth Commonwealth
- 72 -
-D-
DA Development Application
DC Deputy Commissioner
DC District Court
DC District Council
DCR (NSW) District Court Reports (New South Wales) (Butt) 1963-1976
Dept Department
Devt Development
Diss Dissolved/Divorced
Divn Division
DP Deputy President
DP Deposited Plan
DR Dispute Resolution
DX Document Exchange
- 76 -
-E-
EA Enterprise Agreement/s
EO Equal Opportunity
Eq Equity
Ex p Ex parte
Ex rel Ex relatione
-F-
Fam LN Family Law Notes (LBC - included in FLR Vols 30-35) 1976-1979
FB Full Bench
FC Full Court
FX Foreign Exchange
- 83 -
-G-
Gaz Gazette
GG Governor General
Govt Government
Govr Governor
Govt Government
-H-
hdgs headings
HM Her/His Majesty
- 87 -
H of R House of Representatives
HR House of Representatives
-I-
IB Industrial Board
IC Industry Commission
IM Industrial Magistrate
Imp Imperial
Inc Incorporated
Ind Law Bull (Mazengarb's) Industrial Law Bulletin (Butt - NZ; 1981-1992
continued by Employment Law Bulletin)
In Liq In Liquidation
IP Industrial/Intellectual Property
IPA IP Asia (Asia Law & Practice Ltd, Hong Kong) 1993-
-J-
J Justice or Judge
JD Doctor of Jurisprudence
JJ Justices or Judges
JR See NZ Jur
Juris Jurisprudence
-K-
KC Kings Counsel
-L-
Land L Serv Law Book Co's Land Laws Service (NSW) 1938-1977
Law Soc ACT Gaz Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory 1993-
Gazette (formerly the below)
Law Soc Tas Law Society of Tasmania Newsletter. See Law Letter
NL
(The) LBC Law Book Company (Ltd) Newsletter New Series 1985-1995
Newsletter NS
legn legislation
LEXPO
LL B Bachelor of Laws
LL D Doctor of Laws
LL M Master of Laws
- 109 -
- 110 -
LR See NZLR
* Alternatively these may be spelt out as Law Reports New South Wales
Ltd Limited
- 113 -
-M-
MC Magistrates' Court
MC Municipal Council
MP Member of Parliament
-N-
NL No liability
NLEC Land & Environment Court (New South Wales), Library, Sydney
NSW Priv Com New South Wales Privacy Committee Papers 1975-
Papers
NSWSCL New South Wales Society for Computers and the 1983-
Proceedings Law, Proceedings of (Sydney)
NSW Soc for New South Wales Society for Computers 1983-
Computers & and the Law, Proceedings of (Sydney)
the Law,
Proceedings of
NZ Law Review New Zealand Law Review (Legal Research Foundation 1995-
Continues NZRLRev)
NZRL Rev New Zealand Recent Law Review (Legal Research 1989-1994
Foundation, continued NZRL; continued by NZ
Law Review)
-O-
OGLTR Oil & Gas Law and Taxation Review (ESC 1982-
Publishing Ltd, UK)
Ord Ordinance
-P-
PD See NZPD
Ph D Doctor of Philosophy
PM Prime Minister
PM Police Magistrate
PP Parliamentary Paper
Pres President
proc/s proclamation/s
PS Public Service
Pty Proprietary
-Q-
QA Queens Attorney
QC Queens Counsel
-R-
r/rr rule/s
R Rule
R Restricted
reg/s regulation/s
rep repealed
RL See NZRL
-S-
SC Senior Counsel
SC Supreme Court
SC Shire Council
Sch Schedule
Sch/s Schedule/s
SCL New South Wales Society for Computers and the Law
SCR (NSW) Eq Supreme Court Reports (New South Wales), Equity 1862-1879
SCR (NS) Supreme Court Reports (New South Wales), (New 1878-1879
(NSW) Series)
SM Stipendiary Magistrate
SMH Sydney Morning Herald (John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd; 1831-
at one stage featured law reports)
SR Statutory Rules
sub-s/s subsection/s
-T-
T/A Trading as
Toxic Toxic (Ecol Data Pty Ltd, Everton Park, Qld) 1988-
TP Trade Practices
Trib Tribunal
- 159 -
- 160 -
-U-
UN United Nations
Univ WA Ann Annual Law Review (WA - Cont'd as Univ WAL Rev) 1948-1959
L Rev
-V-
v versus
Vic Bar News Victorian Bar News (The Victorian Bar) 1977-
Vic Legal
Exec Victorian Legal Executive
Paper
- 167 -
VLR (IP & M) Victorian Law Reports (Insolvency, Probate & 1875-1884
Matrimonial)
VP Vice President
-W-
W A'B & W Min Webb, A'Beckett and Williams' Mining Cases 1870-1872
Webb A'B & Webb, A'Beckett and Williams' Equity Reports 1870-1872
W Eq
Webb A'B & Webb, A'Beckett and Williams' Mining Cases 1870-1872
W Min
W & W & A'B Wyatt, Webb and A'Beckett's Reports (Equity) 1864-1869
(E)
W & W & A'B Wyatt, Webb and A'Beckett's Reports (Equity) 1864-1869
(Eq)
W & W & A'B Wyatt, Webb and A'Beckett's Reports (Mining) 1864-1869
(M)
W & W & A'B Wyatt, Webb and A'Beckett's Reports Mining 1864-1869
Min
Wyatt & WIP Wyatt and Webb's Reports, Insolvency, Probate 1861-1863
&M and Matrimonial
Wyatt W & A'B Wyatt, Webb and A'Beckett's Reports Equity 1864-1869
Eq
-X-
-Y-
Further sources:
Australian Interlibrary Resource Sharing Directory, 3rd ed, Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1994
Bieber, DM Dictionary of legal abbreviations used in American law books, 4th ed, Buffalo, NY, Hein, 1993
Harrington, M AGAAA/Australian government acronyms and abbreviations, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing
Service, 1993
Jones, DJ Australian dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations, 4th ed, Canberra, ALIA Press, 1995
Kavass, II & Prince, MM (eds) World dictionary of legal abbreviations, Buffalo, NY, Hein, 1991- (Looseleaf)
Rais trick, D Index to legal citations and abbreviations, 2nd ed, London, Bowker-Saur, 1993
Serials in Australian libraries CD ROM, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology/National Library of Australia
Trew, JL Federal industrial law, Sydney, Butterworths, 1989 - (Looseleaf). List of abbreviations of organisations,
pp4951-4956
- 181 -
Some local and overseas law books are colloquially named by the colour of the binding. No attempt is made to be
comprehensive and the following are but a few examples.
Black statutes: NSW reprinted statutes and sessional acts in black binders, likewise for WA
Blue book: The blue book - A uniform system of citation, 15ed, Cambridge, Mass, Harvard Law Review
Association, 1991
Blue book: The Blue Book: The Directory of the Law Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, Butterworths (Annual)
Red book: The various Butterworths procedure looseleaf services ie Ritchie (NSW); Williams (Vic); Ryan
(Qld); Lunn (SA); Seaman (WA); Refshauge (ACT)
Source: (1995) 69 ALJ 417
Maroon book: The University of Chicago Manual of legal citation, Lawyer's Co-Operative Publishing
Co/Bankcroft-Whitney Co/Mead Data Central, Inc, 1989
Source: Posner, R A The maroon book (1988) 101 Harvard Law Review 1323
Silver service: Armstrong, M et al Communications law and policy in Australia, Sydney, Butterworths, 19992 -
(Looseleaf)
White book: Supreme Court Practice, London, Sweet & Maxwell (latest edition or on CD-ROM)
Source: Minister administering the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 v Carson
(1994) 35 NSWLR 342 at 348
Yellow book: Admission of Securities to Listing, London, Council of The International Stock Exchange
Source: Atkinson, N et al Practitioner's guide to the Stock Exchange Yellow Book, Woking,
Surrey, Westminster Management Consultants, 1993
AUSTRALIAN
LEGAL ABBREVIATIONS
SECOND EDITION
It evolved as a preliminary list in June 1979 (No 32 ALLG Newsletter) and revised in July 1982 (No 50 ALLG Newsletter) then
as a separate publication in 1986. Also incorporated in the list are non-Australian and New Zealand law journals which
regularly carry Australian and New Zealand content and/or have Australians or New Zealanders serving on their editorial /
advisory boards or as correspondents. The last point explains why JBL and MLR are in whilst LQR is out, though they are
all of UK origin. As well, a selected number of non-law periodicals which feature on a regular basis articles of relevance to
legal practice in Australia and New Zealand are included."
This publication was compiled by Colin Fong, Research Librarian with Allen Allen & Hemsley and Alan Edwards, the Law
Librarian with the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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