The Court's full text judgment databases are hosted
by AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute).
The following links to databases below will therefore
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Federal
Court of Australia judgments
This database contains
both single Judge and Full Court decisions from 1
February 1977 to 31 December 2001. From 1 January
2002, it contains single Judge decisions only.
A small number of judgments cannot be published on AustLII (either in part or in full) due to technical difficulties. Click here to view a list of these judgments.
A small number of judgments cannot be published on AustLII (either in part or in full) due to technical difficulties. Click here to view a list of these judgments.
Federal Court of Australia judgments and Federal
Court of Australia Full Court judgments
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*The
Federal Court adopted a new medium neutral citation
(FCAFC) for Full Court judgments effective from 1 January
2002. Single Judge judgments will not be affected and
will retain the FCA medium neutral citation.
The transitional arrangements are as follows:
All Full
Court judgments delivered prior to 1 January 2002
will retain the FCA medium neutral citation.
All Full
Court judgments delivered between 1 January 2002
to 30 April 2002 have been assigned parallel medium
neutral citations in both the FCA and FCAFC series.
All Full
Court judgments delivered from 1 May 2002 will contain
the FCAFC medium neutral citation only.
Sample of judgment with FCAFC citation
only:
AAA v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2002] FCAFC 250
Sample of judgment with parallel
citation:
Shumilov v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2002] FCAFC
1
Shumilov v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural Affairs [2002] FCA
36
The following
judgments cannot be uploaded to AustLII due to technical
difficulties:
Medium neutral
citation
Judgment
The Wilderness Society Inc v Hon Malcolm Turnbull, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources [2007] FCAFC 175
