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shall be held in the state where the offence was committed,
and if the offence was not committed within any state the
trial shall be held at such place or places as the Parliament
prescribes.
These powers are thus laid down in the Act of 1903.
Part IV.—ORIGINAL JURISDICTION OF THE HieH COURT
Extent of Jurisdiction
30. In addition to the matters in which original jurisdic-
ion is conferred on the High Court by the Constitution, the
High Court shall have original jurisdiction in all matters
wrising under the Constitution or involving its interpretation.
33. (1) The High Court may make orders or direct the
issue of writs—
(a) commanding the performance by any Court invested
with federal jurisdiction, of any duty relating to the exercise
of its federal jurisdiction ; or
(b) requiring any Court to abstain from the exercise of
any federal jurisdiction which it does not possess; or
(c) commanding the performance of any duty by any
person holding office under the Commonwealth ; or
(d) removing from office any person wrongfully claiming
to hold any office under the Commonwealth ; or
(e) of mandamus; or
(f) of habeas corpus.
(2) This section shall not be taken to limit by implication
the power of the High Court to make any order or direct the
issue of any writ.
Parr V.—APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE HicH COURT
Appeals
34. The High Court shall, except as provided by this Act,
have jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from all
judgements whatsoever of any Justice or Justices, exercising
the original jurisdiction of the High Court whether in Court
or Chambers. .
L Judiciary Act, 1903, s. 60.
* For such a case, see Baxter v. Commissioners of Taxation, N. 8. W.,
4+ C. L. R. 1087. In Miller v. Haweis, 5 C. L. R. 89, it was held that
an inferior State Court acts in its federal jurisdiction only when it decides
in cases on a federal question ; if it decides it on some other point, then,
whether or not it has decided the federal question correctly, the High Court
sannot hear an appeal direct.
