VCE Legal Studies Question Thread

[dcassss]

 in regards to the brislan case who brought the case to the high court brislan or the state in which she resides? and if it is brislan how is it that s.109 is applied?

[ImTryingIGuess]

Regarding references to cases, such as the aforementioned Brislan case, what would the best answer in the exam be
"Brislan case" or the full title, such as "R v Brislan (1935)"
Would the former take away from the overall answer?
thanks in advance and good luck to everyone who's doing the exam tomorrow 

[etakar]

Regarding references to cases, such as the aforementioned Brislan case, what would the best answer in the exam be
"Brislan case" or the full title, such as "R v Brislan (1935)"
Would the former take away from the overall answer?
thanks in advance and good luck to everyone who's doing the exam tomorrow 

either should be fine, if you know the "R v Brislan 1935" it wouldn't hurt to use it

[ImTryingIGuess]

either should be fine, if you know the "R v Brislan 1935" it wouldn't hurt to use it

Thanks for the swift response etakar!

[31415926535]

Help, does anyone know an example of how the Victorian Parliament upheld their representative function?

[SemiAdapted]

Help, does anyone know an example of how the Victorian Parliament upheld their representative function?

Not sure if there's anything really solid about this in any of the textbooks, since this is a really broad point. You could possibly talk about Oscar's Law or Brodie's Law, as these both were examples of people being unhappy with the outcome of a case and changing the law in regards to the will of the people. Theoretically you could take any law passed by parliament and say there were groups who wanted such laws and represented the interests of the voters.

[31415926535]

Not sure if there's anything really solid about this in any of the textbooks, since this is a really broad point. You could possibly talk about Oscar's Law or Brodie's Law, as these both were examples of people being unhappy with the outcome of a case and changing the law in regards to the will of the people. Theoretically you could take any law passed by parliament and say there were groups who wanted such laws and represented the interests of the voters.

Thank you so much!

[kez1234]

Good luck tomorrow, everyone! 

[MissSmiley]

^^ Good luck to you too!

Any light predictions on the 10 mark question tomorrow anyone? 
New study design jitters!!

Don't think it's about role of jury/judge because that was on the sample exam, but not sure!
Anyone want to predict just for fun?

[TheBamboozler]

Any light predictions on the 10 mark question tomorrow anyone? 

My teacher told me to study recent and recommended reforms because she thinks that's what the 10 marker will be on.

[MissSmiley]

My teacher told me to study recent and recommended reforms because she thinks that's what the 10 marker will be on.

Yeah we thought of this at school too!
But could also be on the relationship between courts + parliament

Would hate it if it's something random or something focusing on a really small area of content!!

[kez1234]

My teacher is also predicting that the 10 marker will be about recent and recommended reforms. 

[courtney2502]

Does anyone know the differences between the VLA and CLCs? I'm struggling to wrap my head around it!

[kez1234]

Hope this helps:

Differences between VLA and CLC's-

CLCs is a more holistic institution available to an accused person not just for legal representation, which is the primary objective of VLA.

Specialist CLCs focus on one area of the law, or one sector of the community, whereas VLA has the capacity to assist everyone in any area.

VLA is a single government agency, whereas CLCs are separate organisations.

Many CLCs do not assist with indictable offences, whereas VLA does.

[courtney2502]

Hope this helps:

Differences between VLA and CLC's-

CLCs is a more holistic institution available to an accused person not just for legal representation, which is the primary objective of VLA.

Specialist CLCs focus on one area of the law, or one sector of the community, whereas VLA has the capacity to assist everyone in any area.

VLA is a single government agency, whereas CLCs are separate organisations.

Many CLCs do not assist with indictable offences, whereas VLA does.

That helps heaps!! Thank you so much!