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The Spycatcher trials were a pair of cases that took place between 1986 and 1988 in Australia.[a] The first trial was heard and decided in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and was appealed to the High Court of Australia, forming the basis of the second case.
Background
[edit]Appeal
[edit]| Attorney-General for the United Kingdom v. Heinemann Publishers Australia | |
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| Court | High Court of Australia |
| Full case name | Attorney-General (United Kingdom) v. Heinemann Publishers Australia Pty. Ltd. |
| Started | March 8, 1988 |
| Decided | June 2, 1988 |
| Citations | Attorney-General (UK) v Heinemann Publishers Australia Pty Ltd [1988] HCA 25, 165 CLR 30, 78 ALR 449 (2 June 1988), High Court (Australia) |
| Case history | |
| Appealed from | New South Wales Court of Appeal |
| Court membership | |
| Judges sitting | Anthony Mason (C.J.), Ronald Wilson, Gerard Brennan, William Deane, Daryl Dawson, John Toohey, Mary Gaudron |
| Case opinions | |
| Appeal dismissed with costs | |
| Decision by | Mason, Wilson, Deane, Dawson, Toohey, and Gaudron |
| Concurrence | Brennan |
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Aftermath
[edit]Notes and references
[edit]- ^ Both trials were formally titled Attorney-General (United Kingdom) v. Heinemann Publishers Australia Pty. Ltd.