LAW5004 - Public Law & Statutory Interpretation Notes

Description

The notes include the following topics, case summaries and authorities: - Foundational concepts, relationships and structures -- Public law -- Foundational concepts () rule of law - Relationships and structures -- Democracy, government and the people -- Government -- Federalism -- Separation of powers -- Responsible government -- International law - Origins and evolution of Australian public law - Parliament and legislative power -- How an Act of Parliament is made -- What is Parliament? -- How laws are made -- Parliamentary sovereignty -- Legislative power -- Non-legislative power - Executive -- Tampa case -- Executive power and Tampa case -- CPCF v Min for Immigration case -- Responsible government - The courts and judicial power -- Judiciary -- Boilermakers case -- The Kable case - Public law in practice, executive detention of asylum seekers -- Executive detention of asylum seekers -- Chu Keng Lim v Minister for Immigration -- Al-Kateb v Godwin - Plaintiff M68/2015 v Minister for Immigration - Public law in practice, human rights in public law -- Protection of human rights at federal level -- Protection of human rights at state level - Statutory interpretation -- Statutory interpretation, theory and principles -- Legislation and public law context -- What is statutory interpretation? -- Parliamentary intention -- Process of statutory interpretation - Text, context, purpose -- Evans v NSW -- Reading the Act as a whole -- Project Blue Sky v ABA -- Taylor v Evans -- Victims Compensation Fund Corp v Brown - Presumptions and protecting rights -- Presumptions -- Principle of legality -- Victorian Charter of Human Rights