{"id":9555,"date":"2017-02-07T20:43:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T09:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2024-07-10T06:52:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T06:52:40","slug":"looking-back-to-the-future-federal-court-of-australias-40th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/2017\/02\/07\/looking-back-to-the-future-federal-court-of-australias-40th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back to the future: Federal Court of Australia’s 40th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 7 February 2017, the Federal Court of Australia celebrates the 40th Anniversary of its first sitting<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on 7 February 1977.<\/p>\n

As well as holding a ceremonial sitting to mark the day, the Federal Court of Australia has gathered a specially curated collection of court and parliamentary documents from archives, as well as commentary and analysis including articles from our very own\u00c2\u00a0Australian Law Journal<\/em><\/a>, to be displayed on its website<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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  • \u00c2\u00a0MH Byers QC and PB Toose QC, “The Necessity for a New Federal Court (A Survey of the Federal Court System in Australia)”\u00c2\u00a0(1963) 36\u00c2\u00a0ALJ\u00c2\u00a0308<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • NH Bowen, “Some Aspects of the Commonwealth Superior Court Proposal” (1967) 41 ALJ 336<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      These seminal articles provide unique and fascinating insights into the context and dialogue around the need for a federal court, and the mission and purpose of such a court, under the Australian Constitution and in the administration of Australian law and justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The 40th anniversary of the Federal Court of Australia looks back to insights provided by The Australian Law Journal and other significant legal records and writings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,38],"tags":[9775,178,942,9776,9777,9778,1008,9779,9780,9781,9782,9783,9784,9785],"class_list":["post-9555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-australian-law-journal","category-journals","tag-40th-anniversary","tag-alj","tag-australian-constitution","tag-chief-judge-nigel-bowen","tag-chief-justice-nigel-bowen","tag-fca","tag-federal-court","tag-federal-court-of-australia","tag-justice-paul-b-toose","tag-mh-byers-qc","tag-pb-toose-qc","tag-sir-maurice-byers-cbe-qc","tag-sir-nigel-bowen-ac-kbe-qc","tag-the-hon-nh-bowen-qc-mp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}