Re: Does NR know about this?

["Barry Campbell" <campblbm@ozemail.com.au>]

David Bromage wrote in message <72m2tq$4qr$3@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
>athan (athan@trump.net.au) wrote:
>> Australian courts, funnily enough, will make their decisions based on
>> AUSTRALIAN and QLD/NSW/VIC/SA/WA law - and WILL NOT have regard to US
law -
>> they MAY make reference to US findings on material matters, such as
studies
>> relating to fatigue, etc, but the US law will have NO bearing.
>
>Overseas court rulings may be pursuasive, but are not binding.
>
But when they are interpreting statutes passed in a US state they are not
even that if there is no similar statute in Australia.


Barry Campbell