1)Identify some of the difficulties which people have in accessing the law. Not everyone has a chance to enforce their rights in Australia ’s legal system‚ because they have difficulty in accessing the law. This lack of access to the law may be a result of barriers such as cost‚ time‚ education and procedure‚ language‚ and geographical location. These barriers often discourage people from initiating legal proceedings. The cost of legal advice‚ assistance and representation can be so high that a
Premium Law Lawyer Judge
Discuss: To range the extent‚ it is important to understand the source of law‚ the Australian legal system‚ the history of the Australia‚ the formation of the Australian legal system and the relationship between Australia and British law system. Back to history‚ source of law need refers to the historical development of a law or a legal system. 1 Now Australia Legal system is self-developing even include the Aboriginal Customary Law and no longer binding with English legal system. There are several
Premium
GATT and the WTO have been put in place to insure that the 156 members adhere to the various principles within the two agreements. Articles I and III of the GATT outline two of the most fundamental principles regarding non-discrimination in WTO law; the most-favoured-nation (MFN) treatment obligation and the national treatment obligation (NTO). * The MFN treatment obligation‚ which is set out in Article I of the GATT‚ is described in the case of EC- Tariff Preferences as the ‘cornerstone
Premium International trade Free trade
In our most primitive development‚ mankind has distinguished between food fit for consumption and food unfit for consumption. As such‚ one of the oldest documented set of food laws are the Jewish dietary laws‚ also known by the Hebrew term (Kashrut) from which the word kosher is derived. Jews who observe the dietary laws of Kashrut must make constant decisions about what they eat‚ and how they prepare their own food. As a result‚ the observant Jew eating ceases to be a totally instinctive activity
Premium Judaism Kashrut
1.1 History of Campaign Finance Laws Legislation regarding the role of money in American politics is as old as the nation itself. In 1699 the Virginia House of Burgesses established a law banning the bribery of voters in elections. This law made insured that wealthy candidates would not attempt to pay off voters in an attempt to win elections (Mutch 2001). Today‚ the general consensus is the interested money is what corrupts politics‚ not bribes by self-financed candidates. It was not until the
Premium United States President of the United States Supreme Court of the United States
and parliaments in law reform and describe their limitations. The role of courts and parliaments in law reform is to change laws that have dated since when the law first came in and to “modernize” the law. An example of this is capital punishment. Courts usually change law or modify laws that get brought up by court cases. But the parliament had to produce a bill‚ which it goes through the house of reps and the senate to become a new law. * Outline the role of the NSW law reform commission
Premium Law Judge Separation of powers
During the Reconstruction period of 1865 1877‚ federal law provided civil rights protection in the U.S. South for freedmen the African Americans who had formerly been slaves. In the 1870s‚ Democrats gradually regained power in the Southern legislatures‚ sometimes as a result of elections in which paramilitary groups intimidated opponents‚ attacking blacks or preventing them from voting. Gubernatorial elections were close and disputed in Louisiana for years‚ with extreme violence unleashed during
Free African American United States Racial segregation
The incidence of law enforcement officers contracting HIV/AIDS in the line of duty in the United States is often considered nonexistent‚ but a deeper look at some interplaying factors involved in this assessment points to a different conclusion. In order to gain insight on the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s on law enforcement officers‚ the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) surveyed every law enforcement agency in the United States about the occurrence and frequency of
Premium Immune system AIDS HIV
the first person was arrested for drunk driving‚ it was a 25 year old London taxi driver named George Smith‚ he slammed his taxi into a building.He later pleaded guilty and was fined 25 shillings. All state states have some type of ignition interlock law. In which judges require all or some convicted drunk drivers to install interlocks in their cars to analyze their breath and disable the engine if alcohol is detected. 20 states have made ignition interlocks mandatory or highly incentive for all convicted
Premium Alcohol law Drunk driving Driving under the influence
The fundamental fact that decides the type of regime and‚ by extension‚ the type of laws that the regime should have is the structure of authority in the regime. The two most common types of regimes are democracy and oligarchy. All regimes desire to be wealthy‚ therefore all regimes are oligarchical to some extent‚ but more specifically oligarchies are regimes where the wealthy rule. Democracies on the other hand are defined as the rule of the majority‚ which is assuming that the majority ruling
Premium Law Morality Political philosophy