By Thomas Hurley -
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.