This article reports the way in which the High Court as an institution and its individual judges decided the matters that came before them in 2016. It is part of an ongoing annual study of High Court decision-making which we began in 2003.[1] In this series we examine both the totality of the Court’s decisions and the subset of constitutional matters in each calendar year.
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- Andrew Lynch and George Williams, ‘The High Court on Constitutional Law: The 2003 Statistics’ (2004) 27 University of New South Wales Law Journal 88. For a full list of the published annual studies see the Appendix to this article. An earlier article, by one of the co-authors, examined a larger focus: Andrew Lynch, ‘The Gleeson Court on Constitutional Law: An Empirical Analysis of Its First Five Years’ (2003) 26 University of New South Wales Law Journal 32.