Courts
What is the name of the highest court in Australia?
High Court
What shape is the Rule of Law wheel?
Round (it is a wheel)
How many people are usually on a jury?
12
Assault, drink driving and murder are examples of which type of law?
Criminal law
What is the name of law created by the courts?
Common Law
Where is the High Court located?
Canberra
"The people should be ruled by the law and obey it and that the law should be such that people will be able to be guided by it". What is the name of this rule?
Rule of Law
Define tampering with evidence
Changing, hiding or destroying evidence
Disputes about property and defamation are examples of whic htype of law?
Civil Law
What is the name of the law created by Parliament?
Statute law
What is the name of the highest court in Western Austraia?
Supreme
The rule of law includes how many principles in practice?
Eleven
When two parties are in opposition to each other, with both trying to win a case, what type of system is this?
Adversarial system
Can you be sentenced to a jail sentence in a civil case, criminal case, or both?
Criminal case
What is another name for Common law?
Precedent
If you wanted to appeal a decision made in the Supreme Court, where would it be heard?
In the High Court
One of the principles is 'People can only be punished in accordance with the ______'
What is the name of the challenge to justice, whereby witnesses are intimidated or threatened?
Coercion of witnesses
Prosecutors who have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone is guilty of a crime in which type of trial?
Criminal trial
Can statute law be a Federal law, State law, or both?
Both
The name of a member of the judge's staff who calls witnesses and helps to keep order in the court
Court Orderly
In the Rule of Law wheel - what is the middle principle?
No one is above the law
What is the name of the legal agency people can access if they can't afford a lawyer?
Legal Aid
What is the name of the person which has made a legal complaint against another person/group in a civil court?
Plaintiff
What can overrule a High Court case?
Another High Court case