Library Guides: Australian Case Law: Northern Territory

Northern Territory Cases

Authorised Reports

The authorised report series for the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory are:

Northern Territory Law Reports: 1991 - current. Available on Westlaw Australia (UniMelb access)
Northern Territory Reports: 1979 - 1991. Available on Lexis + Australia (UniMelb access)

The Law Library also holds both series in hard copy:

Northern Territory Law Reports: 1991 - 2011. Catalogue record
Northern Territory Reports:1979 - current. Included in the Australian Law Reports. Catalogue record

Westlaw Australia
(UniMelb access)
Northern Territory Law Reports, 1991 - current
Lexis+ Australia
(UniMelb access)
Northern Territory Reports, 1979 - 1991

Northern Territory Unreported Judgments

Unreported decisions are court judgments that have not been reported in a law report series. AustLII and Jade provide access to the following unreported judgments from Northern Territory courts:

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, the Court of Appeal and the Court of Criminal Appeal: 1986 - current (AustLII) (Westlaw, selected cases from 1981) (Jade from 2004)
Northern Territory Local Court: 2002 - current (Austlii) (Jade from 2004) (Local Court website)

Lower courts:

Cases from the following are available on AustLII

Northern Territory Anti-Discrimination Commission: 1996 - current
Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal: 2015 - current
Northern Territory Health Professional Review Tribunal: 2010 - current
Northern Territory Mental Health Review Tribunal: 2015 - current
Northern Territory Residential Tenancies Commissioner: 2006 - current

Pre 1976

Selected judgments of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, the Supreme Court of North Australia, and the Supreme Court of Central Australia: 1918 - 1976 (AustLII)

AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute) This link opens in a new window
AustLII publishes public legal information including primary legal materials (legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals) and secondary legal materials created by public bodies for purposes of public access (law reform and royal commission reports, for example) and a substantial collection of law journals. Includes full-text Acts of Australian and State Parliaments.
BarNet Jade
Jade (Judgments and Decisions Enhanced) is a free current awareness service that collects recent decisions of selected Australian Courts and Tribunals. Jade can be used to search for Australian decisions, receive alerts on new decisions by email, and court digests by RSS. Jade has digitised copies of the Commonwealth Law Reports (CLRs) from 1903-1952. Jade is a BarNet initiative.

Northern Territory Local Court
The Local Court of the Northern Territory is established by the Local Court Act 2015. The Local Court is the first level of the Northern Territory's two tier court system and in the great majority of cases is the first point of contact that members of the public have with the judicial system. The Court handles the greatest proportion of cases in the Northern Territory, dealing with both criminal and civil cases.

Westlaw Australia
Westlaw Australia provides Australian legal resources with selected New Zealand content.

See relevant cases, commentary and authorised reports in a single search. Uses natural language search and a database of case law and journals, legislation and commentary to precedents, encyclopaedia and news.