The aim of this website is to reproduce the surviving records held in London of all the unreported appeals from the Australian colonies to the appeals committees or the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council before 1850.

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 also contains hidden colonial case records to a number of other jurisdictions (Tasmania, SA and WA) and inlcudes Privy Council appeals from the Australian colonies up to 1850.

Law Library Primary Materials - 346.409944 KER

Law Library Primary Materials - 346.409944 STA

A selection of the most important judgments delivered by the Supreme Court of New South Wales under Forbes C.J. There are 262 cases listed, including many examples of what would now be called appellate court judgments.

Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899 published by the Division of Law Macquarie University

Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899 published by the Division of Law Macquarie University

This resource contains the most important cases concerning the military coup against Governor Bligh on 26 January 1808 associated with the Rum Rebellion

Vol 1 (1880) - Vol 21 (1900)

This site concentrates on the decisions of the Supreme Court.

This site was created to publish many of the hidden nineteenth century records of the superior courts of Tasmania. The site begins with the first decisions of the newly established Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land, which first sat in 1824.

This site concentrates on the decisions of the Supreme Court, and on reports first published by the Argus.

There was no Supreme Court in Western Australia until 1861, but in 1832 the colony's first legislative Act established a Civil Court with all the powers of the superior common law courts of England plus some of those of the ecclesiastical courts.

This collection comprises of the first court proceedings of Western Australia. The records have been recovered from newspapers digitised as part of the National Library of Australia’s Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (Trove newspaper collection).