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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Front cover -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- BRIEF CONTENTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- HOW TO USE THIS TEXT -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CASES -- STATUTES -- PART 1 FOUNDATIONS -- CHAPTER 1 Business and the law -- Introduction -- 1.1 Law and the business person -- Law and personal life -- Law and business -- Law in the media -- Law in popular culture -- 1.2 The nature of law -- Defining law -- The purpose of law -- The categories of law -- The changing law -- 1.3 Justice, ethics and politics -- Law and justice -- Law, ethics and morality -- Law and politics -- Too much law? -- SUMMARY |
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QUIZ -- EXERCISES -- KEY TERMS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 2 The Australian legal system -- Introduction -- 2.1 The Australian legal system -- Key characteristics of the system -- The history of the system -- 2.2 The Australian Constitution -- Structure of the Constitution -- Constitutional conventions -- Federal and State relations -- Regulating the Territories -- Changing the Constitution -- 2.3 The executive government -- The Governor-General and the State Governors -- The Executive Council and the Cabinet -- Challenging the executive government -- Delegated legislation -- SUMMARY -- QUIZ |
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EXERCISES -- KEY TERMS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 3 Politicians and judges -- Introduction -- 3.1 The legislature -- The nature of parliament -- 3.2 Parliament in operation -- How laws are made -- Resolving deadlocks -- Types of legislation -- 3.3 The judiciary -- The Australian court system -- Court processes -- 3.4 The doctrine of precedent -- Do judges make law? -- Precedent -- Common law and equity -- 3.5 Alternative dispute resolution -- SUMMARY -- QUIZ -- EXERCISES -- KEY TERMS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 4 How to find, understand and use the law -- Introduction |
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4.1 Finding the law -- Legal research -- Primary legal materials -- Secondary legal materials -- 4.2 Reading the law -- The relevant elements -- Interpreting the law -- 4.3 Thinking like a lawyer -- Inductive and deductive reasoning -- How to solve a legal problem -- 4.4 Writing like a lawyer -- Legal writing -- Drafting a letter -- Drafting a simple contract -- SUMMARY -- QUIZ -- EXERCISES -- KEY TERMS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PART 2 LEGAL CONSEQUENCES -- CHAPTER 5 Deliberately causing harm -- Introduction -- 5.1 Causing harm -- Criminal liability -- Tortious liability -- Contractual liability |
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Statutory liability -- Vicarious liability -- 5.2 Deliberately causing harm to person or property -- Criminal liability -- The tort of trespass -- The tort of nuisance -- The tort of defamation -- 5.3 Deliberately causing financial harm -- Criminal liability -- The tort of deceit -- The tort of passing off -- The tort of intimidation -- The tort of interference with contractual relations -- 5.4 The consequences of causing harm -- Criminal consequences -- Civil consequences -- SUMMARY -- QUIZ -- EXERCISES -- KEY TERMS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 6 Carelessly causing harm -- Introduction |
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6.1 Carelessly causing harm to person or property |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 09, 2021) |
| Subject |
Commercial law -- Australia
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Commercial law
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Australia
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| Reading List |
MLC101 prescribed text 2024
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780730391883 |
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0730391884 |
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