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Statutory Interpretation in Private Law

Edited by: Prue Vines, M. Scott Donald

ISBN13: 9781760022051
Published: May 2019
Publisher: The Federation Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Format: Hardback
Price: Price on Application



In the past 50 years private law has undergone a revolution: statutes are now prevalent in every area. This book considers how judges in private law cases should respond to this change. How are statutes to be interpreted in this area with its deep historical roots, and is it reasonable to think that statutory interpretation might have different aspects and emphases in private law compared with public law?

Divided into three parts: Introduction; Current Trends and Debates; and, Applications of Statutory Interpretation in Private Law, the book seeks to recognise the institutional reality of the statutory presence in private law.

A distinguished group of authors including the Hon Tom Bathurst AC, Justice Mark Leeming and Justice Ashley Black, consider this question from a range of viewpoints. For example, the area of private law is full of transactional analysis – how different is the construction of contracts from statutory interpretation?

The book canvasses some general questions about how statutory interpretation operates in private law, such as whether there should be a different concept of the principle of legality in private law, or whether parliamentary intention might include an understanding of private law. Particular applications such as the role of statutory interpretation in contributory negligence, defamation, directors’ duties, consumer law and equity are also considered.

Subjects:
Other Jurisdictions , Australia
Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
PART I – Introduction
1. Introduction: Is Statutory Interpretation in Private Law Distinctive?
Prue Vines and Scott Donald
PART II – Current Trends and Debates
2. Icecream is not ‘Meat’: Literal Meaning and Purpose in Statutory Interpretation in Private Law
The Hon TF Bathurst AC
3. Statutory Interpretation as Private Law
Justice Mark Leeming
4. Commentary on ‘Statutory Interpretation as Private Law’
Justice Ashley Black
5. Statutory Interpretation and Private Law Obligations
Joachim Dietrich
PART III – Applications of Statutory Interpretation in Private Law
6. ‘Co-production’: Novelty and Path-dependence in Defamation Reform
Jenny Steele
7. Taking Common Law Concepts Seriously: Extending the Principle of Legality in Private Law
Prue Vines
8. Statutes in a Web of Law
Lyria Bennett Moses and Brendan Edgeworth
9. An Integrated Approach to Statutory Interpretation: Directors' Duties in the UK
Rosemary Teele Langford
10. Intuitive Synthesis and Fidelity to Purpose? Judicial Interpretation of the Discretionary Power to Award Civil Penalties under the Australian Consumer Law
Jeannie Marie Paterson and Elise Bant
11. Contractual Fairness: Statutory Innovation and Statutory Interpretation
May Fong Cheong
12. ‘Lord Cairns’ Act and Statutory Interpretation: Give the Court an Inch, They’ll Take a Mile
Katy Barnett
13. Statutes and a Fiduciary Course of Dealing
Simone Degeling
Index