courts

This page considers Australian and overseas courts.

It covers -

• Introduction
• Australian courts
• Overseas courts
• Studies

     Australian Courts

Commonwealth

High Court of Australia
Federal Court of Australia
Judgments
Other Courts

New South Wales

Court and Tribunals
Court and Tribunal Judgments

Queensland

Courts
Judgments

South Australia

Courts

Tasmania

Courts
Judgments

Victoria

Supreme Court
County Court
Supreme Court
County Court

Western Australia

Courts
Supreme Court
Court of Appeal

Australian Capital Territory

Courts and Tribunals
Judgments

Northern Territory

Courts
Judgments

     Overseas Courts

New Zealand

Courts
Court of Appeal Decisions 1998+

US

Supreme Court

US District Courts

US Courts of Appeal

European Union

European Court of Justice

     Studies

Anon, ‘Three Jurors’ Tales’, in Kate Auty and Sandy Toussaint [ed], A Jury of Whose Peers? The Cultural Politics of Juries in Australia, (2004) Crawley, University of Western Australia Press, 8-23
Tom Campbell, ‘Judicial Activism - Justice or Treason?’, 10(3) Otago Law Review (2003), 207-326
Natasha Cica, ‘Can’t buy me love - Public Policy Implications of Cattanach v. Melchior’, 10(4) Agenda (2003), 367-384
Michael Coper, ‘Critique and Comment: Concern About Judicial Method’, 30(2) Melbourne University Law Review (2006), 554-575
Roger Cotterrell, The Politics of Jurisprudence: A Critical Introduction to Legal Philosophy, 2 ed (2003) London, LexisNexis
Greg Craven, ‘Reforming the High Court’, Upholding the Constitution: Proceedings of the Samuel Griffith Society, vol 7, (1996) East Melbourne, The Samuel Griffith Society, 23-42
John Doyle, 'Implications in Judicial Law-Making', in Cheryl Saunders [ed], Courts of Final Jurisdiction - The Mason Court in Australia, (1996) Leichhardt, The Federation Press, 84-98
Ronald Dworkin, Justice In Robes, (2006) Cambridge, The Belknap Press
Sian Elias, Address By The Rt. Hon. Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice Of New Zealand, To The Australian Law Teachers’ Association Annual Conference Held At Vanuatu, 3 July 2001 (2001), at http://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/ from/documents/Speech03-07-01.PDF
Malcolm Feeley and Edward Rubin, Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America’s Prisons, (2000) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Ray Finkelstein, ‘2002 Costello Lecture (31 October 2002)’, (2002) Monash Law School, at http://www.law.monash.edu.au/alumni/events/costello-lecture-2002-transcript.pdf
John Finnis, ‘Natural Law: the Classical Tradition’, in Jules Coleman and Scott Shapiro [ed], The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, (2004) Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1-60
Lawrence Friedman, American Law in the 20th Century, (2002) New Haven, Yale University Press
Lon Fuller, The Morality of Law, (1969) New Haven, Yale University Press
Brian Galligan, 'The Australian High Court's Role in Institutional Maintenance and Development', in Charles Sampford and Kim Preston [ed], Interpreting Constitutions - Theories, Principles and Institutions, (1996) Leichhardt, The Federation Press, 184-202
Murray Gleeson, ‘Individualised Justice: The Holy Grail’, 69 Australian Law Journal (1995), 421-432
Murray Gleeson, The Rule of Law and the Constitution, (2000) Sydney, ABC Books .127
Herbert Hart, The Concept of Law, 2 ed (1997) Oxford, Clarendon Press
Kenneth Hayne, ‘Letting Justice be Done Without the Heavens Falling’, 27(1) Monash University Law Review (2001) 12
Dyson Heydon, ‘Judicial Activism and the Death of the Rule of Law’, XLVII(1) Quadrant January (2003), 9-22
Nickolas James, ‘Critique and Comment: A Brief History of Critique in Australian Legal Education’, 24(3) Melbourne University Law Review (2000), 965
Michael Kirby, Through The World’s Eye, (2000) Leichhardt, The Federation Press
Michael Kirby, ‘Judicial Activism: Power Without Responsibility? No, Appropriate Activism Conforming To Duty’, 30(2) Melbourne University Law Review (2006), 576-593
Nicola Lacey, A Life of HLA Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream, (2004) Oxford, Oxford University Press
Shirley Letwin, On the History of the Idea of Law, (2005) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Geoffrey Lindell, ‘‘Judge & Co.’: Judicial Law-Making and the Mason Court’, 5(1) Agenda (1998), 83-96
Karl Llewellyn, ‘Some Realism About Realism - Responding to Dean Pound’, 44 Harvard Law Review (1931), 1222-1264
Michael McHugh, ‘The Law-making Function of the Judicial Process’, 62 The Australian Law Journal (1988), 15-31 and 116-127
Geraldine Mackenzie, How Judges Sentence, (2005) Leichhardt, The Federation Press
Anthony Mason, ‘Legislative and Judicial Law-making: Can we locate an identifiable boundary?’, in Geoffrey Lindell [ed], The Mason Papers: Selected Articles and Speeches by Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE, (2007) Leichhardt, The Federation Press, 59-79
Anthony Mason, ‘The Courts and Public Opinion’, in Geoffrey Lindell [ed], The Mason Papers: Selected Articles and Speeches by Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE, (2007) Leichhardt, The Federation Press, 94-109
Robert Moles, ‘The Decline and Fall of Dworkin’s Empire’, in Alan Hunt [ed], Reading Dworkin Critically, (1991) New York, Berg, 77-121
Haig Patapan, Judging Democracy: The New Politics of the High Court of Australia, (2000) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Jason Pierce, Inside The Mason Court Revolution: The High Court Of Australia Transformed, (2006) Durham, Carolina Academic Press
Alexander Reilly, ‘How Mabo Helps Us Forget’, 6 Macquarie Law Journal (2006), 25-47
David Ritter, ‘The Rejection of Terra Nullius’, 18(1) Sydney Law Review (1996), 5-33
Peter Russell, Recognizing Indigenous Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism, (2005) Toronto, University of Toronto Press
Ronald Sackville, ‘Continuity and Judicial Creativity -_Some Observations’, 20(1) University of New South Wales Law Journal (1997), 145-69
Ronald Sackville, ‘Activism’, in Michael Coper, Anthony Blackshield and George Williams [eds], Oxford Companion to the High Court, (2001) Oxford, Oxford University Press, 6-7
Pierre Schlag, ‘Normative and Nowhere to Go’, 43 Stanford Law Review (1990), 167-191
Nonie Sharp, ‘No Ordinary Case - Reflections on Mabo (No 2)’, 15 Sydney Law Review (1993) 143
Joseph Singer, ‘Review Essay: Legal Realism Now’, 76(2) California Law Review (1988), 465-544
Quentin Skinner, ‘The return of Grand Theory’, in Quentin Skinner [ed], The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences, (1985) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Jim Spigelman, ‘Negligence: The Last Outpost of the Welfare State’, 76 Australian Law Journal (2002), 432-451
Adrienne Stone, ‘The Common Law And The Constitution: A Reply’, 26(3) Melbourne University Law Review (2002), 646-665
Julius Stone, Legal System and Lawyers Reasoning, (1968) Sydney, Maitland Publications
Mark Tebbit, Philosophy of Law: An Introduction, 2 ed (2005) London, Routledge
Edward Thomas, The Judicial Process: Realism. Pragmatism, Practical Reasoning and Principles, (2005) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Tom Tyler, Why People Obey the Law, (2006) Princeton, Princeton University Press
Marina Valverde, ‘Social Facticity and the Law: A Social Expert’s Eyewitness Account of Law’, 5(2) Social & Legal Studies (1996), 201-217
Robert Van Krieken, ‘From Milirrpum to Mabo: The High Court, Terra Nullius and Moral Entrepreneurship’, 23(1) New South Wales Law Journal (2000), 63-73
Raymond Wacks, Law, Morality and the Private Domain, (2000) Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press
Raymond Wacks, Understanding Jurisprudence: An Introduction to Legal Theory, (2005) Oxford, Oxford University Press
Jeremy Webber, ‘The Jurisprudence of Regret: The Search for Standards of Justice in Mabo’, 17(5) Sydney Law Review (1995), 5-28
Christopher Wellman and A John Simmons, Is There a Duty to Obey the Law?, (2005) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
David Wilkins, ‘Legal Realism for Lawyers’, 104(2) Harvard Law Review (1990), 469-514
Hal Wootten, ‘Mabo and the lawyers’, 6(1/2) Australian Journal of Anthropology (1995), 116-33

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