[Essay Help]: LAW100 Foundations Of Law

LAW100 Foundations Of Law.

Task:

Find and read the High Court Case of Lyons v Queensland [2016] HCA 38.

This case can be found on the Australian Legal Information Institute website (Austlii): austlii.edu.au

The purpose of this assignment is to understand the essentials of reading a case for the purposes of ascertaining its value as a precedent. This is an appeal from the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland.

Please answer the following questions:

1. What are the material facts of this case?

2. What were the grounds of appeal?

3. Procedural history: What was said in the Court of Appeal?

4. What did the High Court decide? Why?

LAW100 Foundations Of Law