iNOW! has business line input these days, which is already making the product better – thanks everyone. As new High Court judge Michelle Gordon and ex-High Court judge Ken Hayne put it, ‘the proper construction and application of statutes always has been, but now more than ever is, an essential legal skill’ – we agree. The theme we want …
Gordon has passed me the pen for Episode 3 (Rebecca Smith next month). One point resonating from Episode 2 is that interpretation usually involves selecting the best answer from among ‘constructional choices’. Computers cannot do that, nor can mathematical algorithms – not yet anyway.On the production front, we now have business line input on tone and content. One thing we …
Thanks for all the positive feedback on Episode 1 – we may have hit a nerve! One point I often make in presentations is that, as we all get better at statutory interpretation, so our technical decision-making will improve also – it’s unavoidable. Interpretation, however, almost invariably does not involve some singular bright shining answer just awaiting our discovery1…
interpretation NOW! is a reinvention initiative to drive awareness on what is happening on the statutory interpretation front. It responds to a one-ATO need to have sharp tools ready at all times when working with tax legislation. As French CJ says in Pearce & Geddes – ‘The centrality of statutory interpretation in our legal system must be reflected in legal …
