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LAWS11059 Statutory Interpretation

Course details

Statutory interpretation has a specific focus on locating and using legislation, aids to interpretation, and deployment of interpretative techniques. The course prepares students for determining whether the exercise of a statutory power is invalid if a condition or procedure regulating its exercise, is breached; determining whether a law has a retrospective operation; determining whether a statutory offence contains a mental ingredient to be proved by the prosecution (mens rea), and if so, what that ingredient is; determining the scope of a statutory power to make deleganted legislation in the light of delegated legislation, which has purportedly been made under a power; and the application of a rule in any applicable charter of human rights. A law graduate should be able to give a reasoned opinion as to the appropriate meaning of a legislative provision which takes adequate account of the law of statutory interpretation.


Course at a glance
Career: Undergraduate
Credit points: 6
Requisites: Corequisite: LAWS11057
Student Contribution Band: 3
EFTSL: 0.12500
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