Statutory Interpretation - JURD7581
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: Introduction to Law & Justice (LAWS1052/JURD7152) and Adminiatrative Law (LAWS1160/JURD7160); Co-requisite: Resolving Civil Disputes (LAWS2371/JURD7271) OR Litigation 1 (LAWS2311/JURD7211).
Excluded: LAWS3281
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Main Topics
- The legislative process.
- Purpose, context and extrinsic materials in reading statutes.
- Interpretation Acts and linguistic presumptions.
- Substantive presumptions, including presumptions in protection of civil liberties.
- Temporal and geographic limitations on statutes.
- Inconsistencies, repeals, amendments and consolidations.
- Statutes with a long judicial history, and the relationship between statutes and the common law.
- Theories of interpretation.