Common Law, Equity and Statute

This strikingly original book explains how the Australian legal system is structured, and how that structure informs the way novel questions of law are argued and decided.

One of this book’s themes is that, in the minority of litigation which involves the determination of a question of law, it often makes sense to regard the legal system as an entangled product of statute and judge-made law, within which common law and equity are separate components. Another is that the actual working…