Australian Law Prior to Federation, Federal and Victorian Court Structure and Jurisdiction, Appeals Process, VCAT and Natural Justice

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TABLE OF CONTENT
 Australian law prior to federation
 Structure and jurisdiction of federal courts
 Structure and jurisdiction of Victoria courts
 Appeals process as it applies to criminal and civil procedures within Victoria courts.
 Purpose of Ccat
 Summary of a specific VCAT case that included natural justice
 Natural justice and describe how natural justice applies to the case

1. Australian Law prior to federation, main source of colony law before
federation. Change that federation made in law and judicial system
 Australian law prior to federation are new south wales act 1823, Act to provide for the administration of justice
introduced in 1828, Western Australia 1829,
South Australian Colonization Act 1834 (UK), Australian Constitutions Act 1850 (UK), Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865
(UK) and many more.
 The main sources of colony law before federation are the Australia Acts 1986, Commonwealth, State and Territory
legislation and Constitution Acts of the several States that helps in effective formulation of new Australia.
 The federation has lead change in the law and judicial system as it preserves the right of states in order to maintain the
state constitution. Thus, from now onwards the name of states such as New South Wales Constitution will be applied
which were not before the federation.

2. Structure and jurisdiction of federal courts
 The federal courts of Australia have three main level such as districts courts, then comes the circuit courts
which is the first court in which a person firstly apply for its key issue, whereas the supreme courts is the
final level in federal system. In addition to this the court and judiciary system of Australia are properly
structured in the form of hierarchy i.,e from top to bottom.
 The jurisdiction of federal courts of Australia covers all civil matters that are arising as per the Australia
federal law and indictable criminal matters. Moreover, the judiciary act is used to monitor the jurisdiction in
order to hear judicial review of decision that are made by the officers of Commonwealth.