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The High Court was established following the passage of the Judiciary Act 1903. [3] Its authority derives from chapter III of the Australian Constitution, which vests it (and other courts the Parliament creates) with the judicial power of the Commonwealth. [4] Its internal processes are governed by the High Court of Australia Act 1979 (Cth). [5]
The AustLII databases include the complete text of all of the decisions of the High Court, [6] decisions of the Federal Court from 1977 onwards (the decisions between 1977 and 1996 were selected by the Federal Court), [7] and decisions of the Family Court from 1988 onwards (as selected by the Family Court), [8] as well as a number of other ...
the court decided to adopt the High Court ruling in Mutual Life & Citizens' Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Evatt (1968) over the Privy Council decision which overruled the High Court. This re-affirmed the broad approach taken to statements of negligent misrepresentation. Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen: 1982 153 CLR 168 Gibbs
Re Culleton (No 2) [1] was a significant Australian court case, decided in the High Court of Australia sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns on 3 February 2017. The case was an influential decision concerning the construction of Section 44(ii) of the Constitution, which held that Rod Culleton's conviction for larceny meant that he was incapable of being chosen as a senator and the ...
Palmer v Western Australia was a case heard by the High Court of Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic, which held that the Quarantine (Closing the Border) Directions and the authorising legislation, the Emergency Management Act 2005, were not impermissibly infringing section 92 of the Constitution of Australia.
Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen, [1] was a significant court case decided in the High Court of Australia on 11 May 1982. It concerned the constitutional validity of parts of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, and the discriminatory acts of the Government of Queensland in blocking the purchase of land by Aboriginal people in northern Queensland.
Court: High Court of Australia: Full case name: Roadshow Films Pty Ltd & Ors v iiNet Ltd : Decided: 20 April 2012: Citations [2012] HCA 16, (2012) 248 CLR 42: Transcripts [2011] HCATrans 210 (12 August 2011) – special leave [2011] HCATrans 311 (10 November 2011) [2011] HCATrans 323 (30 November 2011) [2011] HCATrans 324 (1 December 2011)
Love v Commonwealth; Thoms v Commonwealth is a decision of the High Court of Australia. It is an important case in Australian constitutional law, deciding that Aboriginal Australians are not "aliens" for the purposes of section 51(xix) of the Constitution. The case was decided on 11 February 2020.