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Person who takes a civil case to court.
What is a plaintiff?
A court order requiring an individual or organisation not to perform a particular action
What is an injunction?
Geographical area over which a court, parliament or law enforcement body has authority.
What is a jurisdiction?
The person who is accused of a crime or a civil wrong.
What is a defendant?
This force plays an important role in maintaining the security and integrity of Australia’s borders.
What is the Australian Border Force?
Discussion intended to resolve disputes and/or produce an agreement on further courses of action.
What is a negotiation?
Bodies whose function is to settle disputes between parties. Legal representation is usually not required, costs are low and procedures are informal.
What is a tribunal?
Where there is a right, there will often be a related something.
What is a responsibility?
Law enforcement agency that deals with federal criminal law (e.g. drug importation, people smuggling). and criminal law where it crosses state boundaries
What is the Australian Federal Police?
The Commonwealth statutory body works with other agencies to counter serious and organised crime e.g. bikie gang drug distribution.
What is the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission?
A form of ADR in which the disputing parties use the services of a conciliator who takes an active role in advising the parties, suggesting alternatives and encouraging parties to reach an agreement.
What is conciliation?
Enforcers of reform including courts, parliaments, and United Nations intergovernmental organisations.
What is a mechanism of law reform?
Changing the law to make it more current by removing defects and adopting new methods to better reflect the needs and values of modern day society.
What is law reform?
They are responsible for trains?
Who is the State Rail Authority?
This is Australia's intelligence gathering agency. Its main role is to gather information and produce intelligence to enable it to notify the Government about activities or situations that may endanger Australia's national security.
What is ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation)?
The predominant international document outlines and protects the fundamental human rights all countries are expected to comply with.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
It's what gives rise to law reform including changing social values, new concepts of justice, and new technology.
What are the conditions for law reform?
These are entitlements or permissions which you possess because you are human.
What are rights?
They are responsible for the prevention and response relevant to reducing the harmful effects caused to the environment by pollution.
Who is the EPA?
This organisation focuses on transnational cybercrime and building strong global relationships between countries and governments to combat worldwide cyber-attacks together.
What do the Australian High Tech Crime Centre do?
Enforcement agency of the criminal law of the state within the state’s borders, e.g. arrest, charge, stop, and search for people.
What is the NSW police?
Promoting reform, including law reform commissions, parliamentary committees, the media, non-government organisations
What is an agency of law reform?
A form of ADR in which the disputing parties present their cases before an arbitrator, who makes a decision that is binding on the parties
What is arbitration?
They promote competition and fair trade in markets to benefit consumers, businesses, and the community.
Who is the Australian competition and consumer commission (ACCC)?
The murder of Lyn Dawson and his conviction for her death by her husband Chris Dawson prompted this new law
What is the No Body, No Parole Law?