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Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899 |
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Published by the Division of Law Macquarie University |
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USING THIS SITE CASES Cases concerning the coup against Governor Bligh ("Rum rebellion") Featured cases Justice Burton's collected documents concerning Aborigines 1797-1840 THE PROJECT Privy Council appeals from Australian colonies OTHER SITES Court of Chivalry (17 C England) |
This site was created to publish many of the hidden court records of the superior courts of New South Wales. At present it concentrates on the decisions of the Supreme Courts and other courts of unlimited jurisdiction between 1788 and 1841. The site is presently under construction, and we will be adding new cases. Since work began on this site in 1996, we have expanded the publication of hidden colonial case records to a number of other jurisdictions, which are listed below. This includes Privy Council appeals from the Australian colonies up to 1850. A team in New Zealand has also begun publishing records of its colonial cases. NEWS (past news items) 5 October 2009. These interconnected Macquarie University websites now contain 2734 cases across all British colonial jurisdictions. 2064 of them are from New South Wales, and that will be the main focus of work for the rest of 2009. We are currently placing online NSW cases from the mid-1840s onwards, concentrating on civil actions first. I'm aware that there is so much more to do in the other Australian jurisdictions, and, particularly, of the rich opportunities among the Canadian colonies. Bruce Kercher September 2009. We have now placed Alex Castles' Index to Van Diemen's Land Cases online. September 2009. We are now preparing cases for the period between 1828 and the 1860s. These will be published in a final volume of law reports. We have begun putting 1840s cases online. July 2009. We are now placing citations into the names of cases to be reported in the Kercher Reports, 1788-1827. Cases without a citation such as [1788] NSWKR 1 are published only online, and will not be in the book. January 2009. We have begun publication of a few case records from a number of new jurisdictions, including South Australia, Western Australia, and a number of North American and Caribbean colonies, listed under Colonial Cases to the left. These are online temporarily under the U.R.L. of N.S.W. cases. The Western Australian cases are of particular interest to those concerned with the impact of British law on indigenous people. There is a new Colonial Cases website to explain the development of these new sites. In a major development for the legal history of the Pacific region, the New Zealand Lost Cases project has begun appearing online.
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