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The District Court of South Australia is South Australia's principal trial court. It was established as a court of record by the District Court Act 1991 . Prior to that the Court had existed since 1969 under the Local and District Criminal Courts Act 1926 .
The Magistrates Court of South Australia is the lowest level court in the state of South Australia. The Magistrates Court, then known as the Court of Petty Sessions, was established in 1837, by the Court of Sessions Act 1837. [1] It has both original and appellate jurisdiction and hears matters specified in the Magistrates Court Act 1991 (SA). [2]
Of the judges of the Supreme Court of South Australia, [1] as of September 2018, 14 had previously served in the Parliament of South Australia Edward Gwynne, Sir Richard Hanson, Randolph Stow, Sir Samuel Way, Sir James Boucaut, Richard Andrews, Sir William Bundey, Sir John Gordon, Robert Homburg, Sir Angas Parsons, Sir Charles Abbott, Leo Travers, Len King and Robin Millhouse.
The Court was established by Letters Patent on 2 January 1837, five days after the colony was founded. The Court is unique among Australia's state supreme courts in that it was established at the foundation of the colony of South Australia, as the notion of a supreme court was a part of the colony's founder, Edward Wakefield's theory of colonisation. [3]
The following is a list of courts and tribunals in South Australia: Courts. Aboriginal Sentencing Court; Coroner's Court of South Australia;
Earlier Full Court decisions are available as part of the FCA Series Federal Circuit Court of Australia: Neutral citation: FCCA: 2013-AustLII. BarNet JADE. Federal Magistrates Court of Australia: Neutral citation: FMCA: 2000-2013: AustLII. BarNet JADE. Family law decisions are in the FMCAfam series Family Court of Australia: Neutral citation ...
R v Federal Court of Australia; Ex parte W.A. National Football League: 1979 143 CLR 190 Barwick: 345 Aka Adamson's Case Decided that a "trading and financial" corporation (a pl.(xx) entity) could be more than just a corporation set up for the purpose of trade, as long as its current revenue included a significant proportion of trading activities
The Coroner's Court is housed in the Adelaide Magistrates' Court building. The Coroner's Court of South Australia is a court which has exclusive jurisdiction over the remains of a person and the power to make findings in respect of the cause of death of a person or fire in South Australia, a state of Australia.