Statutory Interpretation
Third Edition
Michelle Sanson
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$119.95 AUD
- ISBN:
- 9780190354695
- Published:
- 16 Dec 2025
- Availability:
- Print on demand
Your essential resource for exploring and applying statutory interpretation.
Statutory Interpretation revitalises statutory interpretation as a living, breathing, dynamic tool for understanding and applying the law. This book ensures that you understand the rules of statutory interpretation and can apply them to any legal scenario in which a statute is involved.
Key features
- Rich with practice scenarios and exercises so you develop the essential statutory interpretation skills needed in legal practice.
- Case exercises are presented as problem scenarios, allowing you to solve them first and then compare your interpretation with real life decisions.
- Third edition adds fresh examples, case references and exercises, updated content on human rights legislation affecting statutory interpretation, updated discussion on topical issues such as judicial approaches and use of the principle of legality.
- Updated Statutory Interpretation Index 3 (SII3), which is a quick reference list of the statutory interpretation rules discussed in this book.
1. Learning Law: How Can I Develop a Legal Mind?
2. Sources: What Is the Law Itself?
3. Legal Institutions: How Is Law Made?
4. Classifying and Practising Law: How Are Cases Resolved?
5. Research: How Do I Find the Law?
6. Communication: How Do I Engage with Others about the Law?
7. Jurisprudence: What Is Law?
8. History: How Did Australian Law Develop?
9. Australia: Where Do First Nations Laws Fit In?
10. Precedent: How Do Judicial Decisions Become Law?
11. Statutory Interpretation: How Do Courts Interpret Legislation?
12. The Profession: What Do Lawyers Do?
13. Law in Society: What Are the Problems and Remedies for Accessing Justice?
14. My Law Career: How Can I Best Prepare for It?
Michelle Sanson is an international legal consultant, humanitarian, and Manager, Country Universities Centre, Norfolk Island.
An academic guide; a time-saving and pedagogical bonus for academics who are using Statutory Interpretation 3rd Edition as a set text. Including:
- An answer guide for the practical exercises in the text
- Further exercises and activities
- Practical suggestions as to how statutory interpretation can be taught to maximise student engagement and learning