LEGAL1
Who gives royal assent to a bill that has passed through the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council?
The Governor
This international body, established in 1945, promotes peace, security, and international cooperation, and influences Australian law through treaties and conventions.
What is the United Nations?
The organisation that would investigate the corruption of local councillors
What is the Independent Commission Against Corruption
This treaty, ratified by Australia in 1990, sets out the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of children.
What is the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CROC)?
The capital of Canada
What is Ottawa
The agency responsible for investigating large scale weapons importation through Sydney airport
The Ombudsman lacks this feature (when compared to statutes or courts)
What is enforceability
The tort that involves a breach of a duty of care
What is negligence
What article of UNDRIP outlines the right not to be subject to forced assimilation?
Article 8
The gas that humans primarily exhale after respiration
What is carbon dioxide
The standard of proof for a criminal case in the Local Court
Beyond all reasonable doubt
How was the Australian Constitution created?
What is an act of parliament (extra 50 points for identifying that it is an act of British parliament)
The system of law that does not allow judges to independently investigate the case
What is the adversarial/adversary system
Three of the things/features of non-legal responses that can help achieve justice
can advocate for reform, can criticise bad law, can provide resources/research, can put pressure on governments for reform, can provide access to people who might not be able to achieve justice through the legal system, anything else Burnett accepts.
In Macbeth, who persuades Macbeth to murder King Duncan
Who is Lady Macbeth?
This 1992 High Court case recognised native title in Australia for the first time.
This 1992 High Court case recognised native title in Australia for the first time.
How many jurors must agree with a decision for it do be valid? (if there are 12 jurors)
What is 11 (this is called a majority verdict
Three of the benefits of Alternative Dispute Resolution
Cost, time, more input from the parties, more likelihood of continuing relationship between parties, others if Burnett approves
This legal mechanism allows a young person to avoid a criminal record if they admit guilt and agree to a meeting with the victim and plan for a solution
What are Youth Justice Conferences
The mathematical constant “e” is approximately equal to 2.718. What is its significance?
e is ≈ 2.718, and it’s fundamental in calculus, growth/decay, and natural logarithms.
An example of non-legal measures achieving justice
Anything Burnett accepts
This Act, passed in 1975, was the first piece of federal legislation to prohibit discrimination in Australia.
What is the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)?
This treaty body monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
What is the UN Human Rights Committee?
When was Jango Fett born
66 BBY
Which treaty ended the Thirty Years’ War in 1648, often cited as the foundation of the modern system of nation-states?
What is the Treaty of Westphalia