TABL1710 Study Guide - Final Guide: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Ratio Decidendi, Terra Nullius

• School: UNSW, UNSW Sydney
• Department: Taxation and Business Law
• Course: TABL1710
• Professor: Helen Cosby

Document Summary

Law a systematic set of rules that declares how we must behave to regulate/control conduct within society, and will be enforced by the courts. It should not be impossible to comply with the legal norms norms rules of how laws are made should comply with the rules themselves e. g. vote passed in parliament majority. Sources of law: common law judge made law precedent, equity, statute law legislature. Inherited from common law system from england as a colony. Law created by courts and reported in the decisions of the judges written: example of precedent tuberville v savage, common law may prevail when dealing with interpretation of the constitution. Equity: equity a body of legal principles or legal rules de(cid:448)eloped (cid:271)(cid:455) the cou(cid:396)ts of cha(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:894)(cid:862)cou(cid:396)ts of. Injunction court order directing a person to stop doing something; and: specific performance court order directing a person to carry out an obligation.