Source: National Archives of Australia, Royal Commission of Assent 9 July 1900 (UK), Page URL, as at 13.12.2023.
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When Queen Victoria signed this document on 9 July 1900 the Bill providing for the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia became law, enacting the Australian Constitution and the … Read article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_tort_law

Types of torts

Torts against the person

Torts (trespass) against the person – category of torts that describes a civil wrong that causes physical harm to the complainant:

• Assault (tort) – intentionally and voluntarily causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact.
• Battery (tort) – Bringing about an unconsentful harmful or offensive contact with a person

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespass

Trespass is an area of tort law broadly divided into three groups: trespass to the person, trespass to chattels, and trespass to land.

Trespass to the person historically involved six separate trespasses: threats, assault, battery, wounding, mayhem (or maiming), and false imprisonment.^[1] Through the evolution of the common law in various jurisdictions, and the codification … Read article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort_of_deceit

The tort of deceit is a type of legal injury that occurs when a person intentionally and knowingly deceives another person into an action that damages them. Specifically, deceit requires that the tortfeasor

• makes a factual representation,
• knowing that it is false, or reckless or indifferent about its veracity,
• intending that another person relies on it,
• who then acts

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Adopted 1966
Australia Signature: 1972, Ratification/Accession: 1980

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/international-covenant-civil-and-political-rights

PART I

Article 1

1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural … Read article

Crimes Act 1914

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2023C00279

13  Institution of proceedings in respect of offences

                   Unless the contrary intention appears in the Act or regulation creating the offence, any person may:

                     (a)  institute proceedings for the commitment for trial of any person in respect of any indictable offence against the law of the Commonwealth; or

                     (b)  institute proceedings for the summary conviction of … Read article

Vienna_Treaties1_1_1969 (pdf)
https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/vclt/vclt.html (UN URL)

Article 26
“Pacta sunt servanda”
Every treaty in force is binding upon the parties to it and must be performed by them in good faith.

Article 27
Internal law and observance of treaties
A party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty. This rule … Read article

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum (URL, British history online)

From the introduction:

A student of English legislation who limited his work to an examination of the volumes containing the Statutes of the Realm would entirely overlook one of the most interesting periods in the history of his subject. The Statute Book is a blank from the close of the 16th year of Charles I.