40th Anniversary
Commentary - Articles, Reflections, Essays
- The Hon Justice SC Kenny, The evolving jurisdiction of the Federal Court of Australia - Administering justice in a federal system
28 October 2011
- The Hon Chief Justice Michael E J Black AC, 'The Federal Court of Australia: the first 30 years - a survey on the occasion of two anniversaries' (pdf - 1.7mb)
Melbourne University Law Review, vol 31, no 3, 2007: p. 1017
- Healey, Graham, The Federal Court of Australia: Judicial changes - the first 30 years (1977 - 2007) (pdf - 19.2mb)
- An introduction to the jurisdiction of the Federal Court of Australia
Justice James Allsop, October 2002
- M.H. Byers QC and P.B. Toose QC of the New South Wales Bar, 'The necessity for a new federal court: a survey of the federal court system in Australia' (pdf - 15.2mb)
The Australian Law Journal, (1963) vol 36, p.308
- "High Court too busy": Lawyers propose new tribunal / Authority given for new court (pdf - 88kb)
Daily Telegraph / Canberra Times, January 23 1963
- The Hon Sir Garfield Barwick, 'The Australian judicial system - the proposed new federal superior court'(pdf - 8.5mb)
Federal Law Review, (1964) vol 1, p.1
- The Hon N.H. Bowen Q.C. M.P, 'Some aspects of the Commonwealth superior court proposal' (pdf - 10mb)
The Australian Law Journal, (1967), vol 41, p. 336
- Judges sworn in for new court (pdf - 211kb)
Daily Telegraph, February 8, 1977
- 17 judges of new Federal Court sworn in (pdf -339kb)
Sydney Morning Herald, February 8, 1977
- Judges sworn in to dispense federal justice (pdf - 288kb)
The Age, February 8, 1977
