The Role of the Appellant Court in Family Law - Australia The High Court has reiterated many times that orders made in the exercise of judicial discretion under the Family Law Act as to the alteration of property interests can only be set aside on a strictly limited basis in accordance with the principles in House v The King (1936) 55 CLR 499 (“House”) It is not enough that the judges composing the appellate court consider that, if they had been in the...