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Key decisions

  • NSW Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages v Norrie [2014] HCA 11
  • Electricity Generation Corporation v Woodside Energy Ltd [2014] HCA 7
  • James v The Queen [2014] HCA 6
  • Achurch v The Queen [2014] HCA 10
  • Western Australia v Brown [2014] HCA 8
  • Thiess v Collector of Customs [2014] HCA 12
  • Taylor v The Owners-Strata Plan No 11564 [2014] HCA 9

BIRTHS

Whether a person can register their sex as “non-specific”

In NSW Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages v Norrie [2014] HCA 11 (2 April 2014) the High Court in a joint judgment concluded the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995 (NSW) allowed the Registrar to record the sex of a person as “non-specific” and did not require a choice between male or female: French CJ, Hayne, Kiefel, Bell and Keane JJ jointly.

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