Cases!
Finding Purpose
Statutes Interpreting Statutes
Issues with purpose
Parts of Legislation
100

Its the case that tells us the modern (contextual) approach to statutory interpretation

What is CIC insurance?

100

The purpose can be informed by something you find at the start, its not short...

What is the long title?
100

The Act that tells us how to interpret other Acts

What is the Acts Interpretation Act?
100

Law students dislike vagueness - the purpose may be the opposite of narrow

What is a broad purpose?

100

These are the 'engines' of statutes that contain most of the words we need to interpret

What are sections?

200

This case from the lecture was about drug dealing and compulsion

What is Taipa v The Queen?

200

It's in the name! This section of legislation is specifically about purposes

What is the purpose or objects section?

200
The section of the Tasmanian AIA that tell us to use the purposive approach

What is section 8A?

200

Some statutes like to play a game of 'go seek'

What is a hidden purpose?

200

This concise name is what we use to refer to Acts

What is the short title?

300

This old case tells us we should find the natural and ordinary meaning of words according to Parliament's intent

What is the Engineers Case?

300

The purpose can come from the whole of something

What is the Act as a whole?

300

The section of the Commonwealth AIA that tell us to use the purposive approach

What is 15AA?

300

Some statutory purposes do not prefer triangles or squares, but this other round shape

What is a circular purpose?

300
This type of legislation is not created by parliament

What is delegated legislation?

400

Its a sunny day - its the case that tells us to give effect to parliament's intention

What is Project Blue Sky?

400

This speech in Parliament can help us understand what words mean

What is the second reading speech?

400

The Tasmanian AIA tells us to choose the interpretation that ______ the object or purpose of the Act

What is promotes?

400

Like a tightrope performer, there may be a balance that needs to be struck

What is political compromise?

400

This phrase describes the materials that are within an act that we can use to interpret it

What are intrinsic materials?
500

The case about videotaping confessions that demonstrates the issue of conflicting purposes

What is Kelly v R?

500

This is a memo from Parliament that gives even more detail about parliament's intent in enacting a statute

What is the explanatory memoranda?

500

The Commonwealth AIA tells us to choose the interpretation that ______ the object or purpose of the Act

What is 'best achieves'?

500

This is what happens when there are lots of things going on that don't agree with each other

What are conflicting purposes?

500

This phrase describes the materials that are outside of an act that we can use to interpret it

What are extrinsic materials?

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