Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
LEGAL STUDIES - Coggle Diagram
LEGAL STUDIES
SOURCES OF LAW
Sources of Common Law
British origins: development of common law, equity, precedent, adversarial system of trial
-
-
-
-
International Law
-
-
Sources: international customary law, declarations and treaties, legal decisions
Role of: United Nations, courts and tribunals, intergovernmental organisations, non-gov organisations
-
INDIVIDUAL AND THE LAW
-
Resolving Disputes
-
Resolving disputes between individuals: alternative dispute resolution, tribunals, courts
-
LAW REFORM
Changes in Laws
Conditions that give rise to law reform including: changing social values, new concepts of justice, new technology
Agencies of reform including law reform commissions, parliamentary committees, the media, non-gov organisations
Mechanisms of reform including courts, parliaments, United Nations intergovernmental organistions
Law Reform in Action
Native title: terra nullius, roles of the High Court and federal parliament, major native title decisions, legislation
-
-
-