Crime Time
This law deals with offences against society.
What is criminal law?
A disagreement between individuals is called this.
What is a dispute?
The highest court in Australia.
What is the High Court?
The process of changing or improving laws.
What is law reform?
The institution with primary responsibility for making statute law.
What is Parliament?
The burden of proof in criminal cases.
What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
Money awarded by a court in a civil case.
What are damages?
This court hears traffic offences.
What is the Local Court?
One factor that often drives law reform.
What are changing social values?
A proposed law is called this before it is passed.
What is a bill?
Stealing property is known as this offence.
What is theft/larceny?
This branch of law deals with agreements between parties.
What is contract law?
A court can create these through its decisions.
What are precedents?
An organisation such as the Law Reform Commission is an example of this.
What is an agency of reform?
The two houses of the Commonwealth Parliament.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The party who prosecutes a criminal case.
Who is the State/Crown?
A civil wrong is called this.
What is a tort?
One role of courts in law reform.
What is interpreting law or creating precedent?
The media can influence law reform by doing this.
What is raising public awareness?
The stage where a bill receives royal approval.
What is Royal Assent?
The main aim of criminal law.
What is maintaining social order and punishing wrongdoing?
The burden of proof in civil cases.
What is the balance of probabilities?
This process allows courts to influence law reform by developing legal principles through decisions in individual cases.
What is judge-made law/common law through precedent?
A law reform condition requiring recognition that change is needed.
What is awareness of the need for reform?
Advantages Parliament has in law reform.
What is elected representation, law-making power, and ability to investigate issues?