The High Court Database

The Australian High Court Database is designed to serve as a definitive source for researchers, students, journalists, and citizens interested in the Court and its work. The Database contains over 315 variables about every case argued before a panel of at least two justices on the Australian High Court between 1995 and 2020, as well as variables on key identity information about the justices hearing the cases. Examples include justice votes, justice coalitions, legal issues in the case, the parties to the case, justices who granted special leave to appeal, justice gender, and justice ideology, amongst many others. On this site, users can browse the database, access information about High Court cases and decisions through the online analysis tool, or download the entire dataset, the related codebook, and multiple supplemental datasets.

The High Court Database has been made possible by the generous funding of the Australian National University Futures Scheme.