High Court of Australia

The High Court "is the highest court in the Australian judicial system. It was established in 1901 by Section 71 of the Constitution. The functions of the High Court are to interpret and apply the law of Australia; to decide cases of special federal significance including challenges to the constitutional validity of laws and to hear appeals, by special leave, from Federal, State and Territory courts."

Current Members of the High Court
Accessed October 2007:
 * Chief Justice - Anthony Murray Gleeson
 * William Montague Charles Gummow
 * Michael Donald Kirby
 * Kenneth Madison Hayne
 * John Dyson Heydon
 * Susan Maree Crennan
 * Susan Mary Kiefel

Former Members of the High Court
Accessed October 2007:

Chief Justices

 * Samuel Griffith
 * Adrian Knox
 * Isaac Isaacs
 * Frank Gavan Duffy
 * John Latham
 * Owen Dixon
 * Garfield Barwick
 * Harry Gibbs
 * Anthony Mason
 * Gerard Brennan

Justices

 * Edmund Barton
 * Richard Edward O'Connor
 * Isaac Isaacs
 * Henry Bournes Higgins
 * Frank Gavan Duffy
 * Charles Powers
 * Albert Bathurst Piddington
 * George Rich
 * Hayden Starke
 * Owen Dixon
 * Herbert Vere Evatt
 * Edward McTiernan
 * Dudley Williams
 * William Webb
 * Wilfred Fullagar
 * Frank Kitto
 * Alan Taylor
 * Douglas Menzies
 * Victor Windeyer
 * William Owen
 * Cyril Walsh
 * Harry Gibbs
 * Ninian Stephen
 * Anthony Mason
 * Kenneth Jacobs
 * Lionel Keith Murphy
 * Keith Aickin
 * Ronald Wilson
 * Gerard Brennan
 * William Deane
 * Daryl Dawson
 * John Leslie Toohey
 * Mary Genevieve Gaudron
 * Michael Hudson McHugh
 * Ian David Francis Callinan

Contact

 * Web: http://www.hcourt.gov.au