PART ONE: Introduction

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Statute Law 
• Chapter 2: Introduction to Statutory Instruments
• Chapter 3: The Entire Context

PART TWO: Establishing First Impression Meaning

• Chapter 4: Ordinary Meaning
• Chapter 5: Technical Meaning and Meanings Fixed by Law
• Chapter 6: Bilingual and Bijural Legislation
• Chapter 7: Original Meaning

PART THREE: Analyzing the Entire Context

• Chapter 8: Textual Analysis
• Chapter 9: Reliance on Components
• Chapter 10. The Legislative Context
• Chapter 11: Purposive Analysis
• Chapter 12: The External Context
• Chapter 13: Consequential Context
• Chapter 14: Legal Policy Analysis
• Chapter 15: Interpreting Aboriginal Law
• Chapter 16: Reliance on Extrinsic Aids

PART FOUR: Achieving Harmony

• Chapter 17: Plausible Interpretation, Mistakes and Gaps
• Chapter 18: Presumed Compliance with Constitutional Law, Common Law and International Law
• Chapter 19: Overlap and Conflict

PART FIVE: Presumption Governing the Application of Legislation

• Chapter 20: Presumed Application: Time, Territory and the Crown
• Table of Cases
• Index