Interpretation & Invalidity of Delegated Legislation
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Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Professional Skills
Interpretation and Invalidity of Delegated Legislation
- How are the canons of construction and standard interpretation principles applied to delegated or subordinate legislation that is not drafted by lawyers, and that often contains technical concepts
- Dealing with uncertainty and inconsistency
- Construing technical terms
- The unusual role of expert evidence on the meaning of subordinate legislation
- The principle of legality and requirements of reasonableness and proportionality
- Consequences of invalidity
Presented by Jim Hartley, Barrister, Young’s List
Presenters
Jim Hartley
Jim Hartley is at the Victorian Bar, practising predominantly in public, industrial, and commercial law. Before coming to the Bar, he was associate to the Hon. Justice R.R.S Tracey AM RFD, and earlier to the Hon. Justice Mordy Bromberg, at the Federal Court of Australia. Jim presents, and is published, on statutory construction, corporate insolvency, personal property securities, commercial leasing, and civil procedure. He is a member of the Melbourne subcommittee of the Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia, and tutors in property law at Monash University.