1. Nature and sources of law -- 2. Origins of the Australian legal system -- 3. The Constitutional framework -- 4. Legal institutions and processes -- 5. Access to law -- 6. Judicial decision-making: common law -- 7. Statutory interpretation -- 8. Law in practice
Summary
Maintains the emphasis on context and skills as keys to understanding law in its practical operation. Within this framework, the new edition expands and updates existing material by reference to a range of important contemporary issues and cases