SUPREME COURT ACT 1979 - SECT 14 Jurisdiction

SUPREME COURT ACT 1979 - SECT 14

    (1)     In addition to the jurisdiction conferred on it elsewhere by this Act, the Court:

        (a)     has jurisdiction:

            (i)     in a proceeding between the Commonwealth, or a person suing or being sued on behalf of the Commonwealth, and the Territory, or a person suing or being sued on behalf of the Territory;

            (ii)     in a proceeding between the Territory, or a person suing or being sued on behalf of the Territory, and any other person, or a person suing or being sued on behalf of that other person; and

            (iii)     in a proceeding between the Commonwealth, or a person suing or being sued on behalf of the Commonwealth, and any other person, or a person suing or being sued on behalf of that other person;

        (b)     has, subject to this Act and to any other law in force in the Territory, in relation to the Territory, the same original jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, as the Supreme Court of South Australia had in relation to the State of South Australia immediately before 1 January 1911;

        (c)     has such jurisdiction, whether civil or criminal, as was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, vested in or conferred on the former Supreme Court or is from time to time vested in or conferred on the Court by any law in force in the Territory (including a law passed or made before the commencement of this Act, as affected by section 6);

        (d)     has jurisdiction in a proceeding in which a writ of mandamus or prohibition or an injunction or other relief is sought against an officer of the Commonwealth or of the Territory, being a proceeding arising in, or under a law in force in, the Territory; and

        (e)     has jurisdiction, with such exceptions and subject to such conditions as are provided by a law in force in the Territory, to hear and determine appeals from all judgments of inferior courts in the Territory given or pronounced after the commencement of this Act.

    (2)     The jurisdiction of the Court referred to in subsection (1) is in addition to the jurisdiction that the Court has under any Imperial Act.