The following is a list of notable cases that have been considered by the

Federal Court of Australia The Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court of record which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law (with the exception of family law matters), along with some summary (less serious) and indic ...

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Drake v Minister for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs ''Drake v Minister for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs'',''Drake v Minister for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs''(1979) 46 FLR 409. (3 May 1979) Federal Court (Full Court). was a 1979 decision of the Federal Court of Australia dealing with drugs, dep ...

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Hunter Valley Developments Pty Ltd v Cohen Hunter Valley Developments Pty Ltd v Cohen is a 1984 decision of the Federal Court of Australia about the discretion to allow applications for review an administrative decision under section 11 of the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) A ...

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Nulyarimma v Thompson ''Nulyarimma v Thompson'' was an Australian court case decided by the Federal Court of Australia. Two separate cases, ''Nulyarimma v Thompson'' and ''Buzzacott v Minister'' for the Environment were heard in conjunction. In both cases, members of ...

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Telstra Corporation Ltd v Desktop Marketing Systems Pty Ltd ''Telstra Corporation Limited v Desktop Marketing Systems Pty Ltd'' is a 2001 decision of the Federal Court of Australia related to the originality required to attract copyright protection. Heard before Justice Finkelstein in June 2000, the cas ...

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Copyright A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, education ...

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Ruddock v Vadarlis ''Ruddock v Vadarlis'' (also known as the Tampa case) was an Australian court case decided in the Federal Court of Australia on 18 September 2001.. It concerned the actions of the Government of Australia in preventing asylum seekers aboard the Nor ...

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Commissioner of Taxation v La Rosa ''Commissioner of Taxation v La Rosa'' was a 2003 decision of the Federal Court of Australia, sitting as the Full Court of the Federal Court. The court upheld two earlier rulings that Frank La Rosa, a convicted heroin dealer, was entitled to a t ...

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Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk Peoples v Victoria Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk Peoples v Victoria,. is a decision of the Federal Court of Australia delivered on 13 December 2005 by Justice Ron Merkel in respect of a native title claim determination for the Wimmera wes ...

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Native title Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty under settler colonialism. The requirements of proof for the recognition of aboriginal title, ...

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Silberberg v The Builders Collective of Australia Inc ''Silberberg v The Builders Collective of Australia Inc'', is a 2007 judgment of the Federal Court of Australia, and the first Australian case exploring the liability of Internet forum operators for racial vilification under the ''Racial Discr ...

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Environmental law Environmental law is a collective term encompassing aspects of the law that provide protection to the environment. A related but distinct set of regulatory regimes, now strongly influenced by environmental legal principles, focus on the manage ...

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ACCC v Cabcharge Australia Ltd ''ACCC v Cabcharge Australia Ltd'' is a 2010 decision of the Federal Court of Australia brought by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) against Cabcharge.; . In June 2009, the ACCC began proceedings in the Federal Court agai ...

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predatory pricing Predatory pricing is a Pricing strategies, pricing strategy, using the method of undercutting on a larger scale, where a Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union#Dominance, dominant firm in an industry will deliberately ...

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Getup Ltd v Electoral Commissioner ''Getup Ltd v Electoral Commissioner (2010'') was a landmark decision made by the Federal Court of Australia on 13 August 2010 allowing Australians to enrol online in future elections. The Federal Court ruled in favour of GetUp! in their challe ...

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Eatock v Bolt ''Eatock v Bolt'' was a 2011 decision of the Federal Court of Australia which held that two articles written by columnist and commentator Andrew Bolt and published in ''The Herald Sun'' newspaper had contravened section 18C, of the ''Racial Di ...

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Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Ltd Roadshow theatrical release is a practice in which a film opened in a limited number of theaters in large cities. Road show or Road Show may also refer to: *''Antiques Roadshow'', a BBC TV series where antiques specialist travel around the country ...

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Wotton v Queensland (No 5) ''Wotton v Queensland'' (the Palm Island Class Action case) is a class action lawsuit brought against the State of Queensland and the Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service on behalf of 447 Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islande ...

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Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria v Gibson Annabelle Natalie Gibson (born 8 October 1991) is an Australian convicted scammer and pseudoscience advocate. She is the author of ''The Whole Pantry'' mobile app and its later companion cookbook. Throughout her career as a wellness guru, Gib ...

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Belle Gibson Annabelle Natalie Gibson (born 8 October 1991) is an Australian convicted scammer and pseudoscience advocate. She is the author of ''The Whole Pantry'' mobile app and its later companion cookbook. Throughout her career as a wellness guru, Gibs ...

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Barilaro v Shanks-Markovina ''Barilaro v Shanks-Markovina & Google'' was a defamation court case before the Federal Court of Australia in 2021 and 2022. The case revolved around claims that two videos published on the friendlyjordies YouTube channel brought the then Deput ...

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