AGLC4
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Made for Australian law students. Build complex footnotes, create bibliographies with one click, and manage pinpoints, notes and citations, all with Pincite. Stop losing marks. Stop stressing. Stop wasting time. No AI. No compromises.
Patricia Wellman, ‘Statutory Interpretation and Federalism’ (2018) 44(2) Melbourne Law Review 517, 522.
Wellman (n 12) 522.
Wellman, Patricia, ‘Statutory Interpretation and Federalism’ (2018) 44(2) Melbourne Law Review 517
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III Context and Purpose
The better view is that context controls. In Harrigan v Bellamy, the High Court read the disputed power against the statute as a whole,1 a method the commentary has since pressed further,2 and one now mirrored in European data-protection law and the constitutional jurisprudence it answers to.3 Mason CJ put the point beyond argument:
[T]he grant of power takes its colour from the purpose of the statute … a court falls into error the moment it reads words in isolation from that purpose.4
Every example above was created in Pincite.
From blank page to bibliography.
Four steps, one workflow. Pick a step to see it in the product.
Choose from 161 citation forms across 50 source types, fill in the fields, and the footnote forms as you type, with ibid and the later reference beside it. Copy keeps the italics intact.
Pin a use to its page or paragraph, set a quotation to rule 1.5 with the marks and indents handled, and keep your notes with the source they belong to.
![The Pincite quotations editor — a passage with an italicised case name and a marked omission, above the Omission, Alteration, [sic], First letter and Italicise tools.](/_next/image?url=%2Fbrand%2Fshot-quote-tools.png&w=3840&q=75)
Each assignment keeps its own project. Saved sources hold their pinpoints, quotes and notes, and reload into the generator whenever you need another form.
The whole project becomes a finished bibliography, grouped under the correct AGLC4 headings and alphabetised, ready to paste. No reformatting at midnight.
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The rules, in plain English
Eighteen guides explain how the AGLC4 actually works, from footnotes and pinpoints to the sources most students never learn to cite.
Read the guides →Any document, the right citation
Look up whatever you are citing and see which of the 50 source types applies, with a worked example and a path straight into the generator.
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