Editing Appellate court (section)

===Australia===
{{main|High Court of Australia#Appellate jurisdiction{{!}}High Court of Australia|Judiciary of Australia#Australian court hierarchy{{!}}Australian courts of appeals}}
[[File:Supreme Court of Victoria (5064240836).jpg|thumb|right|292px|The Victorian [[Supreme Court of Victoria|Court of Appeal]]]]
The [[High Court of Australia|High Court]] has appellate jurisdiction over all other courts. Leave must be granted by the court, before the appeal matter is heard. The High Court is paramount to all federal courts. Further, it has an constitutionally entrenched general power of appeal from the Supreme Courts of the [[States and territories of Australia|States and Territories]].<ref name="s73">{{Cite Legislation AU|Cth|act|coaca430|Constitution|73}}.</ref><ref name="KirbyCentenary">{{cite journal |last1=Kirby |first1=Michael |author-link1=Michael Kirby (judge) |title=The High Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of the United States - A Centenary Reflection |journal=The University of Western Australia Law Review |date=2003 |volume=31 |page=171 |url=http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UWALawRw/2003/11.pdf |access-date=16 April 2021}}</ref> Appeals to the High Court are by special leave only, which is generally only granted in cases of public importance, matters involving the interpretation of the Commonwealth Constitution, or where the law has been inconsistently applied across the States and Territories.[19] Therefore, in the vast majority of cases, the appellate divisions of the Supreme Courts of each State and Territory and the Federal Court are the final courts of appeal.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kirby |first1=Michael |author-link1=Michael Kirby (judge) |title=Maximising special leave performance in the High Court of Australia |journal=UNSW Law Journal |date=2007 |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=731–732, 743–747 |url=http://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/30-3-13.pdf |access-date=16 April 2021}}</ref>