VCE Legal Studies Question Thread

[Cappuccinos]

Ah I see! Thanks for your help guys!
It makes sense.
I thought SACs had to be done in test conditions so I couldn't figure out what we had to do. But yeah its alot clearer now. I'll have to double check with my teacher to find out what we're really doing because I just remembered  we did a practice SAC and it was a test? lol

Anyway thanks!

[eeps]

Another question;

Could someone explain to me what the "Scrutiny of Bills Committee" is?

Thanks!

[burbs]

Erm I believe thats what they call the house of parliament when it reviews the bill in great detail, correcting any vague terms etc.

[eeps]

Ah, right. Cheers.

[burbs]

I've only read chapter one so far, but its very similar to 1/2 and Interpol. Not certain though so I looked it up for you.

I think what I said was correct.

[eeps]

Another question;

Describe the law-making processes of either the Commonwealth Parliament or the state parliaments. Do they operate to meet the needs of society effectively?

Obviously that's just; First Reading, Second Reading, Consideration-in-detail/Committee of the Whole, Third Reading etc. Though, how would people answer the second part of the question?

Thanks to anyone who can help!

[andy456]

Another question;

Describe the law-making processes of either the Commonwealth Parliament or the state parliaments. Do they operate to meet the needs of society effectively?

Obviously that's just; First Reading, Second Reading, Consideration-in-detail/Committee of the Whole, Third Reading etc. Though, how would people answer the second part of the question?

Thanks to anyone who can help!

For this you could look at time... Society might need law to be made really quickly. Take terrorism for example , before 9/11 there were barely any laws on terrorism so parliament had to go crazy and make laws to protect citizens so you could say that the process can be adjusted to fit the needs of society. Cause normally it takes a long time/ parliament isnt always sitting and so on

I'd also talk about the detail in which a law is examined before becoming official i.e the committee stage. This ensures that societys views are characterised well within the law and that the majority of societys needs are upheld.

[eeps]

Cheers for the help andy456.

[werdna]

Is it bad that I understand none of this stuff at the moment? (I'm yet to study the legal course for holiday homework)

[andy456]

Is it bad that I understand none of this stuff at the moment? (I'm yet to study the legal course for holiday homework)

You mean you don't understand something you haven't learnt? Terrible!!!

Jokes.... This stuff is easy to grasp and once you read it you'll think 'well duh thats just common sense'

[eeps]

Jokes.... This stuff is easy to grasp and once you read it you'll think 'well duh thats just common sense'

I agree. It doesn't matter if you don't get it right now, you'll get it in the end no doubt. It's easy enough.

[flash36]

Nothing to get, you just have to read it once or twice and remember it.

[eeps]

Another question;

On the study design it says "The capacity of the states to refer law-making power to the Commonwealth Parliament"; I'm not too sure what it means. It's AOS 2, by the way. All I remember from Units 1/2 in relation to this was the "division of powers"; exclusive, concurrent and so on. If anyone can help that would be appreciated.

[burbs]

Nothing to get, you just have to read it once or twice and remember it.

And you can guess a large amount of it, nearly all the answers I've given so far I've assumed from minimal reading.

[saaaaaam]

Another question;

On the study design it says "The capacity of the states to refer law-making power to the Commonwealth Parliament"; I'm not too sure what it means. It's AOS 2, by the way. All I remember from Units 1/2 in relation to this was the "division of powers"; exclusive, concurrent and so on. If anyone can help that would be appreciated.

So any power that is not listed in the constitution automatically becomes a power of the states. One such area is criminal law. If the states want to, they can give up these powers and give them to federal parliament. This is what the referring of power is.

It's rare that this happens, I mean, who wants to willing give away their power? But it did happen sometime in the past decade. You see Federal Parliament deals with the break up of relationships but de facto relationships were a power of the state. To make it easier the states gave up this power to the commonwealth so that the break up of all marriage/relationships could be dealt with together in the one place.