LAWS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Statutory Interpretation, Testator, Intestacy

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02/05 lecture 17: statutory interpretation and tikanga maori. Family protection act can balance out inequity by enquiring if the beneficiaries are receiving what they require (house, money etc. ). If they find that the testator has not filled their moral responsibilities, the court will intervene and re-write the will. Can a customarily adopted child, be a claimant, as not a legally adopted child but a whangai . The estate will only be reviewed if sam can be proved a child of the deceased . The judge reluctantly decided that it was not possible. It was taken to the court of appeal. The following paragraphs have been worked through in this lecture in order to give the basic material with which to structure an essay on this topic. Paragraph 12: begin with the statutory words, give them natural meaning as they appear in context, taking into account their purpose- the approach we are used to.

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