BTC1110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Queensland, Judiciary Of Australia, Statutory Interpretation
8 Aug 2018
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Natural law - a universal understanding of what is right & wrong, fair & unfair, just & unjust. This underpins the universal human rights law today. Religious law - codes of conduct that are often recorded in holy texts that are followed by believers. Customary law - rules of conduct widely observed as part of the tradition of a particular race or culture. Positive law - the rules that government recognises as laws because they have been properly made. The textbook"s definition of law (adopts the positive law) the body of rules of conduct, made by parliaments and/or courts, that regulates or controls the behaviour or relations between individuals or groups. The law and legal system facilitates peace, order and social cohesion. Rule of law = the idea that no person or institution is above the law. Aboriginal and torres strait islander people have inhabited most of australia for approximately 50,000 years.
