The County Court of Victoria recently delivered a judgment in Patel v. Melbourne Health (2024), awarding significant damages for nervous shock suffered by a bystander who witnessed a traumatic event at a hospital.
Explain how the Victorian Parliament could respond to this court decision, considering the principles of the supremacy of parliament, the ability of courts to influence parliament, and the potential for codification or abrogation of common law.
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The study of Australia’s laws and legal system includes an understanding of institutions that make and reform our laws. In this unit, students explore how the Australian Constitution establishes the law-making powers of the Commonwealth and state parliaments, and how it protects the Australian people through structures that act as a check on parliament in law-making. Students develop an understanding of the significance of the High Court in protecting and interpreting the Australian Constitution. They investigate parliament and the courts, and the relationship between the two in law-making, and consider the roles of the individual, the media and law reform bodies in influencing changes to the law, and past and future constitutional reform. Throughout this unit, students apply legal reasoning and information to actual and/or hypothetical scenarios.
The Australian Constitution establishes Australia’s parliamentary system and provides mechanisms to ensure that parliament does not make laws beyond its powers. Parliament is the supreme law-making body, and courts have a complementary role to parliament in making laws. Courts can make laws through the doctrine of precedent and through statutory interpretation when determining cases. In this area of study, students examine the ways in which the Australian Constitution acts as a check on parliament in law-making, and factors that affect the ability of parliament and courts to make law. They explore the relationship between parliament and courts in law-making and consider the capacity of both institutions to make law.
features of the relationship between courts and parliament in law-making, including: • the supremacy of parliament • the ability of courts to influence parliament • the codification of common law • the abrogation of common law.
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