Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The following is a list of courts and tribunals in South Australia: Courts. Aboriginal Sentencing Court; Coroner's Court of South Australia;
Masters of the court are also designated from the District Court. The court also has magistrates (drawn from the Magistrates Court of South Australia) and commissioners who are not lawyers, but are experts in fields relevant to the court. [2] Michael Durrant, who was appointed to the court on 28 February 2019, [3] [4] was appointed senior judge ...
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 South Australian Employment Tribunal, which also sits as the South Australian Employment Court (formerly the Industrial Relations Court of South Australia and Industrial Relations Commission of South Australia) is a South Australian tribunal empowered to adjudicate on rights and liabilities arising out of employment. It has existed in some ...
Government in South Australia is delivered by a number of agencies, grouped under areas of portfolio responsibility. Each portfolio is led by a government minister who is a member of the Parliament of South Australia , appointed by the Governor as the representative of the Crown .
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]
The court is a superior court of limited jurisdiction, but below the High Court of Australia in the hierarchy of federal courts, and was created by the Federal Court of Australia Act in 1976. [ 24 ] Decisions of the High Court are binding on the Federal Court.
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]