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Landmark High Court of Australia Cases

Chosen by the current Justices of the High Court - September 2023

1. Amalgamated Society of Engineers v Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd ("Engineers Case") [1920] HCA 54; (1920) 28 CLR 129

2. Australian Knitting Mills v Grant [1933] HCA 35; (1933) 50 CLR 387

3. R v Wilson; Ex parte Kisch [1934] HCA 63; (1934) 52 CLR 234

4. Tuckiar v The King [1934] HCA 49; (1934) 52 CLR 335

5. House v King [1936] HCA 40; (1936) 55 CLR 499

6. Chester v Council of the Municipality of Waverley [1939] HCA 25; (1939) 62 CLR 1

7. South Australia v Commonwealth ("First Uniform Tax Case") [1942] HCA 14; (1942) 65 CLR 373

8. Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witness Inc v Commonwealth [1943] HCA 12; (1943) 67 CLR 116

9. Melbourne Corporation v Commonwealth ("Melbourne Corporation Case") [1947] HCA 26; (1947) 74 CLR 31

10. Bank of New South Wales v Commonwealth ("Banks Nationalisation Case") [1948] HCA 7; (1948) 76 CLR 1

11. Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth [1951] HCA 5; (1951) 83 CLR 1

12. R v Kirby; Ex parte Boilermakers' Society of Australia ("Boilermakers Case") [1956] HCA 10; (1956) 94 CLR 254

13. Tait v The Queen [1962] HCA 57; (1962) 108 CLR 620

14. Ryan v The Queen [1966] (unreported)

15. Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority of New South Wales [1982] HCA 24; (1982) 149 CLR 337

16. Commercial Bank of Australia v Amadio [1983] HCA 14; (1983) 151 CLR 447

17. Tasmania v Commonwealth ("Tasmanian Dam Case") [1983] HCA 21; (1983) 158 CLR 1

18. Kioa v West [1985] HCA 81; (1985) 159 CLR 550

19. Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Maher [1988] HCA 7; (1988) 164 CLR 387

20. Cole v Whitfield [1988] HCA 18; (1988) 165 CLR 360

21. Commonwealth v Verwayen ("Voyager Case") [1990] HCA 39; (1990) 170 CLR 394

22. Mabo v Queensland (No. 2) [1992] HCA 23; (1992) 175 CLR 1

23. Lim v Minister for immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs [1992] HCA 64; (1992) 176 CLR 1

24. Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Wills [1992] HCA 46; (1992) 177 CLR 1

25. Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth [1992] HCA 45; (1992) 177 CLR 106

26. Dietrich v The Queen [1992] HCA 57; (1992) 177 CLR 292

27. The Wik Peoples v The State of Queensland & Ors; The Thayorre People v The State of Queensland & Ors [1996] HCA 40; (1996) 187 CLR 1

28. Kable v Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) [1996] HCA 24; (1996) 189 CLR 51

29. Kruger v Commonwealth [1997] HCA 27; (1997) 190 CLR 1

30. Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [1997] HCA 25; (1997) 189 CLR 520

31. Kartinyeri v Commonwealth [1998] HCA 22; (1998) 195 CLR 337

32. Re Wakim; Ex parte McNally [1999] HCA 27; (1999) 198 CLR 511

33. Al-Kateb v Godwin [2004] HCA 37; (2004) 219 CLR 562

34. Fardon v Attorney-General (Qld) [2004] HCA 46; (2004) 223 CLR 575

35. New South Wales v Commonwealth ("Work Choices Case") [2006] HCA 52; (2006) 229 CLR 1

36. Roach v Electoral Commissioner [2007] HCA 43; (2007) 233 CLR 162

37. Kirk v Industrial Court of New South Wales [2010] HCA 1; (2010) 239 CLR 531 The HCASCF database contains a variety of documents related to the 37 lead cases, together with relevant associated files of 31 other related cases (such as cases appealed from). There are 3,155 documents included in the database, totalling 72,039 pages. The details of the types of documents available are:

Affidavits with exhibits (912 items)

Transcripts (533 items)

Orders/Order Sheets (232 items)

Submissions (367 items)

Notices of motion (92 items)

Reasons for Judgment (85 items)

Statements of Claim (68 items)

Lists of Authorities (23 items)

Chamber summons (116 items)

Bills of costs (38 items)

Appeal book items (359 items)

Maps (49 items)

Photographs (60 items)

This database contains High Court of Australia case files of the seminal cases as selected by the current Justices of the High Court of Australia (September 2023). Many thanks to the High Court of Australia for making this material available. - Austlii website.

The Chief Justice of Australia, the Hon. Stephen Gageler AC, launched the 1,000th Database of legal information resources to be made available on the AustLII service. This Database contains the complete case files of some of the key cases of the High Court. The current justices of the Court have chosen 37 cases that they believe to be of seminal importance to the development of jurisprudence and to the history of Australia since Federation. When the database was launched it contained the documents of eight complete case files. AustLII’s intention has been to complete the digitisation of the remaining cases as soon as possible. AustLII is proud to announce that this project is now complete. An index to all 37 cases is available.

Now that the Seminal Case Files project is complete, the High Court has indicated that it supports AustLII adding more historical Court documents to its collection, should funding become available.  These documents include Unreported Judgments of the High Court from 1921 to 2008 and High Court Transcripts from 1943 to1995.

Landmark High Court of Australia cases

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