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AustLII was established in 1995. [1] [2] Founded as a joint program of the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales law schools, its initial funding was provided by the Australian Research Council. [3] Its public policy purpose is to improve access to justice through access to legal information. [4]
On 7 June 1999, Maguire made a complaint to the human rights and equal opportunity commission (HREOC), alleging that the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) had discriminated against him as a person disabled, in contravention of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 [1] in three aspects: the failure to provide braille copies of the information required to order Olympic ...
Plaintiff S157/2002 v Commonwealth, [1] also known as 'S157', is a decision of the High Court of Australia.. It is an important case in Australian Administrative Law, in particular for its holdings about Parliament's inability to restrict the availability of constitutional writs.
Law reports covering the decisions of Australian Courts are collections of decisions by particulars courts, subjects or jurisdictions. A widely used guide to case citation in Australia is the Australian Guide to Legal Citation, published jointly by the Melbourne University Law Review and the Melbourne Journal of International Law.
Breskvar v Wall, [1] was an Australian court case, decided in the High Court on 13 December 1971. The case was an influential decision in property law, specifically the effect of obtaining title by registration under the Torrens title system, the application of the fraud exception to the principle of indefeasibility and whether Frazer v Walker [2] should be followed in Australia.
Commonwealth v. Introvigne Court High Court of Australia Decided 3 August 1982 Citation 201 Case history Prior actions Re Roldano Introvigne By His Next Friend and Father Tarcisio Introvigne v the Commonwealth of Australia; Bunning and Madden; Bunning and Madden (A Firm) Appealed from Federal Court of Australia Case opinions The duty of schools to care for their pupils is not able to be ...
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) (1987–1991), also known as the Muirhead Commission, was a Royal Commission appointed by the Australian Government in October 1987 to Federal Court judge James Henry Muirhead QC, to study and report upon the underlying social, cultural and legal issues behind the deaths in custody of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...
Indefinite stays may be granted by courts when an accused lacking legal representation would result in an unfair trial 70. M v M: 1988 166 CLR 69; [1988] HCA 68 Mason: 1417 Criminal: 71. Malec v JC Hutton Pty Ltd: 1990 169 CLR 638; [1990] HCA 20 Mason: 1402 73. Shell Co of Australia Ltd v Esso Standard Oil (Australia) Ltd: 1963 109 CLR 407 ...