LAWS1052 FULL COMPREHENSIVE NOTES - ALL COURSE CONTENT

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These notes are full comprehensive notes that will help you achieve high results in your first law class. All content, of course, is included as well as specific notes relating to the PQ which will help you ace your final exam. Topics included: - Introductions to each other, to law, to studying law, & to UNSW Law & Justice; Australian law: English origins, Aboriginal law, international law, other legal systems; Law is all around - Case law: Derrick v Cheung -Statute law: Hickling v Laneyrie - The rule of law: the case of Henry Kable -Aboriginal dispossession and the law: Malcolm Smith -Common law and legal reasoning: Scott v Shepherd - Intentional torts: assault, battery, wrongful imprisonment: Zanker v Vartzokas -Defences to intentional torts: McNamara v Duncan, Muscat and the ‘Spanner case’ - Negligence as an example of common law development: Donoghue v Stevenson - Equity: Commercial Bank of Australia v Amadi Judges and judging: Al Kateb v Godwin -Mabo and legal change - Legal professionalism and identity: Hal Wootten and ‘Living Greatly in the Law’ - Reading statutes: what text, which context, whose purpose? Carr v WA - Statutory interpretation examples and activities: National Handgun Buyback Act - The rule of law today: R v Ul-Haque and liberty vs security; Reimagining law and justice: Dietrich v R and Indigenous Legal Judgments