LS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Curia Regis, Constitution Of Australia, Body Politic
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Readings: chapter 1 of laying down the law and principles of australian public law: our legal system is based on the english legal system. Commonwealth also means we share many legal traits with other countries: the law is an abstract thing, we have civil and common law, we have a court hierarchy following an appellant structure. Readings: chapters 2 + 3 of laying down the law and chapter 2 of principles of australian. English legal history has relevance to the development of our laws: 1066 a date of legal significance marks the date of conquest for william the duke of. Normandy in england, further resulting in relevance to australia and indeed the. See ldtl pp. 19-20: foundations of modern constitutionalism then began through the forming of the. This all then gave rise to the development of australian law: In 1788 british settlers when they arrived at lane cove marked the beginning of law and law making within the country.
