Digital Lodgment System

Judgment summaries

October 2024
9 October 2024
For Judgment:
HBSY Pty Ltd ACN 151 894 049 v Geoffrey Lewis & Anor [2024] HCA 35 (PDF)

 

 

 

News Room

Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS) 2024–25
Please click on the link below:
Portfolio Budget Statements 2024-25

 

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Notices/Opening

Sittings Calendar 2025


(PDF)

 

Joint Costs Advisory Committee - 2024 Call for Submissions

 

JCAC welcomes submissions from interested parties on changes to the quantum of costs allowable to legal practitioners under each court's scale of costs.

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Bicentenary Messages – Supreme Courts of Tasmania and NSW

(PDF)

 

Sittings Calendar 2024

(PDF)

 

Live Streaming applications for special leave to appeal (PDF) (RTF)

High Court Building

The High Court building is open weekdays 9.45am to 4.30pm.

 


Video Connection Hearings - PROTOCOL

The High Court has issued a protocol for practitioners participating in Video Connection Hearings (PDF) (RTF)


 

Filing Documents Electronically

 

The Digital Lodgment System Portal (DLS Portal) provides for mandatory electronic lodgment of all documents filed in any case commenced after 1 January 2020. Register with a simple 3 step process of email verification, registration and approval by the Registry dls.hcourt.gov.au.
For cases commenced before January 2020 the Court issued Practice Direction No. 1 of 2020 Electronic Filing of Documents - Cases Commenced before 1 January 2020 on 20 March 2020.

 

CONTACT

 For Registry services and support please contact us by email at [email protected] or by telephone on (02) 6270 6829. Face to face services are no longer provided at the Registry Counter.


  

Access to the High Court building is through the Level 2 entrance at the end of the ceremonial ramp.

The High Court building is open to the public from:

Monday to Friday: 9.45 am to 4.30 pm

Normal Court sitting hours are from:
10.00 am to 12.45 pm and 2.15 pm to 4.15 pm

 

The building is closed on public holidays. Admission to the High Court building is free of charge.

 


 

Audio Visual Recordings

Audio-visual recordings of Full Court hearings heard in Canberra are now available.

 

 

A short documentary on the High Court of Australia:

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