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AustLII content is publicly available legal information. Its primary source information includes legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals.It also hosts secondary legal materials, including law reform and royal commission reports, as well as legal journals. [5]
The High Court has described the concept of a superior court (and associated 'notions derived from the position of pre-Judicature common law courts') as having 'no ready application in Australia to federal courts.' [12] Despite this, Australian courts are frequently characterised as either 'superior' or 'inferior.'
Australian Military Court (2007–2009) [b] Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (1904–1956) [c] Commonwealth Industrial Court (1956–1973) [d] Family Court (1976–2021) Federal Circuit Court / Federal Magistrates Court (1999–2021) Federal Court of Bankruptcy (1930–1977) [e] Industrial Relations Court of Australia (1994 ...
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 ...
The Commonwealth Law Reports (CLR) (ISSN 0069-7133) are the authorised reports of decisions of the High Court of Australia. [1] The Commonwealth Law Reports are published by the Lawbook Company, a division of Thomson Reuters. James Merralls AM QC was the editor of the Reports from 1969 until his death in 2016. [2]
The reception of English law in Western Australia and South Australia was later deemed by statute to have occurred on 1 June 1829 [12] and 28 December 1836 [13] respectively. The earliest civil and criminal courts established from the beginnings of the colony of New South Wales were rudimentary, adaptive and military in character.
The Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law (with the exception of family law matters), along with some summary (less serious) and indictable (more serious) criminal matters. [2] Cases are heard at first instance mostly by single judges.
The High Court exercises both original and appellate jurisdiction.. Sir Owen Dixon said on his swearing in as Chief Justice of Australia in 1952: [8]. The High Court's jurisdiction is divided in its exercise between constitutional and federal cases which loom so largely in the public eye, and the great body of litigation between man and man, or even man and government, which has nothing to do ...