Judgments

Significant judgments of the Family Court of Australia and Federal Magistrates Court of Australia are available on each court’s web site. The Austlii website (Australasian Legal Information Institute) hosts searchable databases for the judgments of both Courts.

Family Court of Australia judgments
This link will take you to the New Judgments page on the Family Court website. This page provides links to recent Full Court judgments and selected recent First Instance judgments of the Family Court. A more comprehensive collection of Family Court judgments can be found on the Austlii website (see below).

Federal Magistrates Court of Australia judgments
This link will take you to the judgments page on the Federal Magistrates Court web site. Links are provided from this page to Federal Magistrates Court family law judgments on the Austlii web site.

Austlii (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
The Austlii website provides free internet access to a wide range of Australasian legal materials. On this site you will be able to find the full text of selected Family Court judgments from 1988 and Federal Magistrates Court family law judgments from 2000.