Course topics.

Try this with Legal Studies

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Bail, remand and committal proceedings
• Purposes and factors in sentencing
• Rights and role of victims in the criminal justice system
• Rights of the accused and the presumption of innocence
• Specialist courts: the Koori Court and Drug Court of Victoria
• The Victorian criminal court hierarchy
• The role and selection of the jury in criminal trials
• Types of criminal sanctions
• Civil remedies and the cost of litigation
• Dispute resolution methods in civil justice
• Elements of negligence
• The Victorian civil court hierarchy
• The role of VCAT in civil dispute resolution
• Changing the Constitution: the referendum process under s128
• Constitutional rights: express and implied protections
• Division of powers under the Australian Constitution
• The High Court as guardian of the Constitution
• Courts as agents of law reform: precedent and statutory interpretation
• How parliament makes and reforms law
• The role of the VLRC and ALRC in law reform