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FlashCards por Saharsh Joshi, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Saharsh Joshi
mais de 7 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| Access | Equal opportunity for all people to make use of the legal system. |
| Adversarial System | System in which two opposing parties present their arguments to a magistrate or judge |
| Anarchy | Disorder or confusion due to the absence of government or laws |
| Appeal | An application for a legal decision to be reviewed in a higher court |
| Bail | To release an accused person who is awaiting trial |
| Balance of probabilities | The standard of proof in civil proof |
| beyond reasonable doubt | The standard of proof required in a criminal trial |
| Commital Hearing | A hearing in a local court to decide whether a case should go to trial |
| Common Law | System of laws based on previous decision of judges and precedents (England) |
| Constituition | A document that sets out how an organisation or country will be run |
| Court | A place where people can solve legal disputes |
| Defendant | The person who the trial is against |
| Discriminate | To treat somebody less favourable due to certain characteristics |
| Double Dissolution | Decision made by the head of the state to dissolve both houses of parliament |
| Indictable Offence | A serious breach of the law that can lead to legal action |
| Judge | A court official who has the power to make decisions that he/she thinks are for the benefit of the law about matters brought before the court |
| Jury | A group of people (12 or 6) selected to hear the evidence in a cout case |
| Kinship | Traditional rules that outline the corrects ways of living |
| Laws | A set of legal rules that are generally followed by a large population |
| Magistrate | A court official who hears the case at the lowest court of law |
| Military Law | rules applicable to people in the armed forces |
| Plaintiff | The party that commences the legal action (The ones sueing not being sued) |
| Precendent | A previous ruling that serves as a rule for future decisions |
| Private Law | Delas with disputes between private citizens |
| Prosecutor | Brings legal action to criminals (All prosecutors are plaintiffs but not all plaintiffs are prosecutors) |
| OPublic law | Deals with disputes that affect the entire community |
| Statute Laws | Laws made by parliament |
| Sue | To bring legal action to an entity for causing damage or injury |
| Tort | A civil wrong |
| Trial | A process to determine whether someone committed a criminal wrong |
| Rule of Law | The restriction of abuses of power by subordinating it to an established set of laws |
| 1. High Court 2. Supreme Court 3.District Court 4. Local Court | |
| Law Functions | 1. To establish boundaries 2. for protection 3. to provide freedom 4. to resolve disputes |
| Criminal Law | Public part of legal system concerned with punishing offenders of the law |
| Civil Law | A private part of law concerned with allowing individuals to bring legal action to a member of the public for a civil wrong done to them (stingjing them) |
| Common Law | Laws we get from English, usually derived from churches |
| Statute Law | Laws made by Parliament |
| Party that commences a civil legal action | Plaintiff |
| actus reus | Guilty Act |
| prima facie | a fact presumed to be true unless it is disproved |
| mens rea | guilty mind |
| causeation | The relationship between conduct and result. e.g. actus reus & result |
| local court | Deals with 0-100000 Magistrate only |
| district court | deals with cases 100001-750000 Heard by Judge Hears appeals from lower court |
| supreme court | Highest court in NSW Hears cases regarding >750000 |
| high court | wedfg |
| summary offence | sdfg |
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