News & Views Mary Gaudron, the first woman to sit on Australia’s High Court, dies aged 83 On the High Court, Gaudron participated in some of the country’s most significant constitutional and public law decisions.
News & Views Eighty asylum seekers released ‘almost immediately’ from immigration detention following landmark High Court ruling A watershed High Court ruling has allowed 80 asylum seekers to be released from indefinite detention, the government confirmed on Monday.
Local First female chief justice Susan Kiefel retires from High Court of Australia The first female chief justice Susan Kiefel steps down from the High Court of Australia today in Canberra, marking the end of an era.
News & Views Appointment of Justice Stephen Gageler marks the end of Australia’s majority-female High Court bench New appointments to the High Court of Australia mark the end of the nation’s first-ever female majority bench.
News & Views Women will make up majority on High Court, with Judge Jayne Jagot appointed The majority of judges on the High Court will be women for the first time in history, with Justice Jayne Jagot appointed to the court.
News & Views Justice Jacqueline Gleeson & Justice Simon Steward appointed to High Court The new appointments will see the existing gender representation on the High Court retained, with three women, and four men.
News & Views The first – and only – female Chief Justice of the High Court permitted the independent inquiry into former judge Susan Kiefel is the first female to serve as the Chief Justice of the High Court. Would an inquiry into Dyson Heydon have occurred without her?
News & Views George Pell walks free after High Court quashes child sex offence convictions Cardinal George Pell will be released from prison after the High Court of Australia unanimously quashed his conviction for historic child sex offences.
News & Views Female High Court judges more likely to be interrupted than their male counterparts, new study finds Female High Court judges are significantly more likely to be interrupted by lawyers than their male colleagues, a new study has found.
Appointments Meet Australia’s first female Chief Justice of the High Court Justice Susan Kiefel is to be the next Chief Justice of the High Court, the first woman to occupy the position in Australia.
