The Legal System
This principle means that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable under the law.
What is the rule of law?
This was the central legal issue in both the Chris Dawson and Keli Lane cases.
What is a criminal case involving alleged homicide/murder?
These are the two key ideas students study together in the first section of this topic.
What are rights and responsibilities?
This branch of law deals with wrongs against the community and is prosecuted by the state.
What is criminal law?
This type of law governs relations between sovereign states and includes treaties and customary international law.
What is international law?
These are the three elements of justice studied in Preliminary Legal Studies.
What are equality, fairness and access?
In the Chris Dawson case, this non-legal mechanism kept public attention on the disappearance of Lynette Dawson.
What is the media?
These include mediation, conciliation and arbitration used to settle disputes without a full court hearing.
What is alternative dispute resolution (ADR)?
Contract law, tort law and property law are all part of this classification of law.
What is private law?
What does IDEAL stand for?
What is Identify, Describe, Example, Analyse and Link/Evaluate
This source of law develops through judges making decisions in previous cases.
What is common law?
In both cases, this legal institution determined guilt or innocence.
What are the courts?
These are methods such as media, members of parliament, trade unions and interest groups used to resolve disputes with the state.
What are non-legal methods?
This court is specifically named in the syllabus as having a role in interpreting the Constitution.
What is the High Court?
In dispute resolution, these statutory bodies can include the Australian Human Rights Commission, ICAC and Royal Commissions.
What are external review bodies?
This is the law-making power given by parliament to other bodies such as local councils or government departments.
What is delegated legislation?
One criticism raised in public discussion of both cases was that this could affect fairness in legal proceedings.
What is media influence or prejudicial publicity?
This review process occurs within the original decision-making department or agency.
What is internal review?
In law reform, these bodies include parliamentary committees, the media and law reform commissions.
What are agencies of reform?
In the Preliminary course, Law in Practice requires students to examine at least this many contemporary issues.
What is two?
This constitutional principle divides law-making, law-enforcing and law-interpreting powers between different branches of government.
What is the separation of powers?
A strong evaluative question in Law in Practice asks whether legal and non-legal responses were effective according to criteria such as accessibility, responsiveness and this final idea.
What is whether justice has been achieved?
Cyber-bullying, privacy issues, surveillance and copyright are examples used in this contemporary issue.
What is the individual and technology?
In relation to native title, this doctrine was an obstacle because it treated Australia as land belonging to no one.
What is terra nullius?
List 4 of the criteria for evaluating effectivness
Resource efficiency, enforceability, accessibility, responsivness, protection of rights, rule of law, opportunity for resolving conflict, balance of community and indiviudal rights, equity (justice) for all