Interpreting statutes / editors Suzanne Corcoran, Stephen Bottomley.

Sydney : Federation Press, 2005.

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Statutes -- Australia.

1. Introduction

2. Theories of statutory interpretation

3. The architecture of interpretation: dynamic practice and constitutional principles

4. Statutes and the common law: the continuing story

5. The interpretation of the constitution

6. Ethical interpretation and democratic positivism

7. Human rights and statutory interpretation

8. Conceiving of tradition: dynamics of judicial interpretation and explanation in native title law

9. A framework for understanding the interpretation of corporate law in Australia

10. Employment law - a text of coherence between statute and common law

11. Codifying the criminal law: issues for interpretation

12. Interpreting law enforcement immunities: the relationship between judicial, legislative and administrative models

13. Interpretive approaches of the tribunals and courts in discrimination law

14. Interpreting family law: a case for legislative principles and presumptions regulating the making of parenting orders

15. Health legislation: interpretation coherent with conscience and international human rights.

Includes index.

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xxii, 330 p.