History
By 1998, there existed a large number of competing styles for citing and referencing legal authorities in Australian law publications. One study identified four major guides:
- D. French, How to Cite Legal Authorities (London: Blackstone Press, 1996);
- Harvard Law Review Association, The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Cambridge: HLRA, 1996, 16th ed);
- University of Chicago Manual of Legal Citation (Rochester: Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1989);
- McGill Law Review, Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation (Montreal: Carswell, 1998, 4th ed).
There was no major, generally accepted Australian guide and law journals and law schools produced their own style guides. One of those guides was the Melbourne University Law Review Style Guide which, in 1997, had reached its third edition.
The first edition of the Australian Guide to Legal Citation ("AGLC1") was published in 1998, a year which saw the publication of three other general guides:
- Colin Fong, Australian Legal Citation - A Guide ("Fong's guide");
- Pearl Rozenberg, Australian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation ("Law Book Co. guide"); and
- Anita Stuhmcke, Legal Referencing ("Butterworths guide").
Fong's guide was prepared by Colin Fong, then Research Librarian with Sydney solicitors Allen Allen & Hemsley. While one reviewer described it as a "remarkably useful and sensible book", another reviewer conducted a comparative review of Fong's guide and AGLC1 and found Fong's guide a "quixotic work". The Law Book Co. guide had a second edition in 2003 and the Butterworths Guide a third edition in 2005.
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