This page contains a series of links to pages that contain judgements from various league related trials. Some of them are fairly long.

Cronulla tried to get out of paying their taxes.

• [Federal Court of Australia Judgement, 15-Sep-1989]
• [Federal Court of Australia Appeal Judgement, 30-Mar-1990]

After the split of April 1995, News Limited took the ARL to court to have the commitment and loyalty agreements overturned. The ARL countersued for breech of contract.

• [Federal Court of Australia Judgement, 23-Feb-1996]
• [Federal Court of Australia Orders, 11-Mar-1996]
• [Federal Court of Australia Appeal Judgement, 4-Oct-1996]
• [Federal Court of Australia Appeal Judgement, 4-Oct-1996]

After the dust had settled, Brad Fittler and Matt Sing left Penrith to play with other clubs. Penrith sort to have them forced to honour their contracts. This was the test case to see if ARL players were required to honour their club contracts before moving to ARL clubs.

• [Supreme Court of New South Wales Judgement, 8-Feb-1996]

The NZRFL took out an injunction against the ARL and NSWRL to stop them from using the terms 'test', 'All Golds', 'representative team', etc. to describe a proposed series of games between an ARL team and another team of New Zealanders chosen from the ranks of ARL signed players. The injunction was granted. In a follow up submission the NZRFL asked the court to order the ARL to pay their costs, which they did.

• [Federal Court of Australia Judgement, 25-Jul-1996]