Decisions of the Nineteenth Century Tasmanian Superior Courts

The reports featured on this site are of Tasmanian cases from 1824 onwards, when Tasmania (then named Van Diemen’s Land) was separated from New South Wales to become a colony in its own right. Contemporary newspapers are the main source, and the period so far covered is 1824 to 1843. Amongst other content there is an index of cases 1840-1857, and the records of pre-1850 appeals to the Privy Council from the Australian colonies. The site is published by the Division of Law, Macquarie University and the School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania.