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The purpose of this Bill is : to provide that ineffective judgements of federal courts made in the purported exercise of State jurisdiction are taken to be judgements of the Supreme Court or the Family Court of Western Australia, as the case requires; to provide for the transfer of current proceedings before a federal court in relation to State matters to the Supreme Court or the Family Court of Western Australia, as the case requires; and
to enable State courts to deal with matters that arise under applied law schemes which would otherwise have been dealt with by a federal court. The Bill also provides for proceedings pending in federal courts which are affected by the High Court's decision to be transferred to the Supreme Court or the Family Court of Western Australia, as the case requires, and to be treated as if the proceedings had been commenced in that court. |