Interpreting provisions that grant courts jurisdiction

High Court. In some cases, may a statutory provision by which: a right of appeal is conferred impliedly grant jurisdiction to hear the appeal; jurisdiction is granted to hear an appeal impliedly confer a right to appeal? Is a provision that grants jurisdiction to a court to be construed "with all the amplitude that the ordinary meaning of its words admits"? 

Some of the questions to the High Court (HCA) were as follows:

Question 1: In some cases, may a statutory provision by which a right of appeal is conferred impliedly grant jurisdiction to hear the appeal?

Question 2: In some cases, may a statutory provision by which jurisdiction is granted to hear an appeal impliedly confer a right to appeal?

Question 3: Is a provision that grants jurisdiction to a court to be construed "with all the amplitude that the ordinary meaning of its words admits"?

The HCA answered those questions as follows:

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