Recent Decisions

This page was last updated 31 August 2020, and includes decisions from June 2020.

AUSTRALIA

High Court – public law decisions

Pending & reserved cases – constitutional law

• Private R v Cowen & Anor S272/2019
• UD v The Queen C7/2020

Pending & reserved cases – administrative law

• CXXXVIII v Commonwealth of Australia A30/2019
• Northern Land Council & Anor v Quall & Anor D21/2019
• ABT17 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection & Anor M140/2019
• Applicant S270/2019 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection S47/2020
• Minister for Home Affairs & Ors v DLZ17 & Anor; Minister for Home Affairs & Anor v Marie Theresa Arthur as Litigation Representative for BZD18; Minister for Home Affairs & Anor v FRX17 as Litigation Representative for FMR17; Minister for Home Affairs & Anor v DJA18 as Litigation Representative for DIZ18 M27/2020
• DVO16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection & Anor S66/2020
• Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v Makasa S103/2020
• Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs v AAM17 & Anor P23/2020
• Minister for Home Affairs v DUA16 & Anor; Minister for Home Affairs v CHK16 & Anor M57/2020
• Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v EFX17 B43/2020
• Oakey Coal Action Alliance Inv v New Acland Coal Pty Ltd & Ors B34/2020

Pending & reserved cases – Native title

Decided cases – constitutional law

Decided cases – administrative law

Minister for Immigration & Border Protection v CED16 & Anor

• Court documents: S347/2019

• Decision via austLII

• High Court Judgment summary

Decided cases – native title

INTERNATIONAL JURISDICTIONS – Significant constitutional law decisions

Canadian Supreme Court

• Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Brittanique v British Columbia (2020) SCC 13

• Reference re Genetic Non-Discrimination Act (2020) SCC 17

• R v Thanabalasingham (2020) SCC 18

• British Columbia (Attorney-General) v Provincial Court Judges’ Association of British Columbia (2020) SCC 20

• Nova Scotia (Attorney General) v Judges of the Provincial Court and Family Court of Nova Scotia (2020) SCC 21

South African Constitutional Court

• New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President of the Republic fo South Africa and Others [2020] ZACC 11

New Zealand Supreme Court

United Kingdom Supreme Court

• ABC (Appellant) v Principal Report and Another (Respondent) (Scotland); In the matter of XY (Appellant) (Scotland) [2020] UKSC 26

• Villiers v Villiers [2020] UKSC 30

• Sutherland v Her Majesty’s Advocate (Scotland) [2020] UKSC 32

United States Supreme Court

• Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v Aurelius Investment, LLC (No 18-1334, 1 June 2020)

• Nasrallah v Barr (No 18-1432, 1 June 2020)

• Banister v Davis (No 18-6943, 1 June 2020)

• Lomax v Ortiz-Marquez (No 18-8369, 8 June 2020)

• Bostock v Clayton County, Georgia (No 17-1618, 15 June 2020)

• Department of Homeland Security v Regents of the University of California (No 18-587, 18 June 2020)

• Department of Homeland Security v Thuraissigiam (No 19-161, 25 June 2020)

• Agency for International Development v Alliance for Open Society (No 19-177, 29 June 2020)

• Espinoza v Montana Department of Revenue (No 18-1195, 30 June 2020)

• Chiafolo v Washington (No 19-465, 6 July 2020)

• Barr v American Association of Political Consultants, Inc. (No 19-631, 6 July 2020)

• Colorado Department of State v Baca (No 19-518, 6 July 2020)

• Trump v Vance (No 19-635, 9 July 2020)

• Trump v Mazars USA, LLP (No 19-715, 9 July 2020)