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Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899

Published by the Division of Law Macquarie University

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USING THIS SITE

Introduction

Finding cases

Family history research

CASES

Important Forbes period cases

Cases concerning Aborigines

Myall Creek cases

Cases concerning the coup against Governor Bligh ("Rum rebellion")

Featured cases

OTHER FEATURES

Music, letters, poetry

Justice Burton's collected documents concerning Aborigines 1797-1840

THE PROJECT

Research based on this site

Donors to the project

Contacting us

COLONIAL CASES

New South Wales

Tasmania

Privy Council appeals from Australian colonies

South Australia

Western Australia

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Calcutta

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Jamaica

Maryland

Massachusetts

New York

Nova Scotia

Pennsylvania

Quebec

Rhode Island

Sierra Leone

Virginia

OTHER SITES

New Zealand cases

Old Bailey Online

Other legal history sites

 

 

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)

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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