HSC Legal Studies Question Thread

[claudiarosaliaa]

Hey, I have to write an essay on Care and Protection of Children for Family Law for the trial exam and my teacher refuses to give advice or read any practice responses. I was wondering, in your option, what the best 3 topics to discuss are in an Care and Protection essay? Thank you

Also (sorry I forgot to ask in my last post), can someone explain how the ICC is a law reform?

Mod edit: Merged double post.

[MisterNeo]

Hey, I have to write an essay on Care and Protection of Children for Family Law for the trial exam and my teacher refuses to give advice or read any practice responses. I was wondering, in your option, what the best 3 topics to discuss are in an Care and Protection essay? Thank you

Also (sorry I forgot to ask in my last post), can someone explain how the ICC is a law reform?

Mod edit: Merged double post.

Hi! I haven't done Family Law, but I can answer your second question.
The International Criminal Court is an example of law reform because it was established to prosecute those who commit crimes against humanity and mass atrocities. History has seen many genocides and war crimes where there was no permanent body to deal with these situations. WW2, Rwandan genocide, the Yugoslav/Bosnian genocide all had ad hoc tribunals: Nuremberg Trials, ICTR, and ICTY respectively.
The ICC was established under the Rome Statute as an international initiative to deter and prosecute those who are going to or have committed these atrocities. It can also hold individuals rather than states accountable, such as the Katanga and Milosevic cases.
Hence, it is regarded as law reform as we do not want future occurrences of what has happened previously.
Hope this helps

[claudiarosaliaa]

Hi! I haven't done Family Law, but I can answer your second question.
The International Criminal Court is an example of law reform because it was established to prosecute those who commit crimes against humanity and mass atrocities. History has seen many genocides and war crimes where there was no permanent body to deal with these situations. WW2, Rwandan genocide, the Yugoslav/Bosnian genocide all had ad hoc tribunals: Nuremberg Trials, ICTR, and ICTY respectively.
The ICC was established under the Rome Statute as an international initiative to deter and prosecute those who are going to or have committed these atrocities. It can also hold individuals rather than states accountable, such as the Katanga and Milosevic cases.
Hence, it is regarded as law reform as we do not want future occurrences of what has happened previously.
Hope this helps

Thank you! That really cleared everything up for me

[jamonwindeyer]

Hey, I have to write an essay on Care and Protection of Children for Family Law for the trial exam and my teacher refuses to give advice or read any practice responses. I was wondering, in your option, what the best 3 topics to discuss are in an Care and Protection essay? Thank you

On the first part of your question, it really depends on how you structure! You could structure it around cases, or you could do it around different responses (legislation, judicial response, international response, etc). A few things you should definitely include:

- CROC, if you do an essay on this topic without this treaty you've done something wrong
- Children and Young Person’s (Care and Protection) Act 1998 (NSW), very important law in this topic
- Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006 (Cth.), which overlaps with the changing nature of parental responsibility
- The role of Family and Community Services (FACS)

Just a few ideas

[Maddiigracee]

Does anyone have a good bank of legal studies questions? I am specifically looking for HR questions from trials or made up questions, not really HSC questions.
Thank you

[jamonwindeyer]

Does anyone have a good bank of legal studies questions? I am specifically looking for HR questions from trials or made up questions, not really HSC questions.
Thank you

Hey Maddi! There a few Trial papers at this link, it isn't a huge collection but hopefully it helps a little!

[rachelmassar]

Hey guys!
Just wondering if you believe abortion is a relevant topic for any family law questions? I was just looking into it and not really sure if it can be categorised under Surrogacy and Birth Technologies.
Thanks 

[jamonwindeyer]

Hey guys!
Just wondering if you believe abortion is a relevant topic for any family law questions? I was just looking into it and not really sure if it can be categorised under Surrogacy and Birth Technologies.
Thanks 

Hey! You could probably work it in to a broader essay on Family Law, but you're right - Not really something they can specifically ask in an essay

[Bubbly_bluey]

Hi! Just wondering how do you study for legal?? I can't seem to find a lot of trial paper pasts so I don't know how to practice.
Thanks

[claudiarosaliaa]

On the first part of your question, it really depends on how you structure! You could structure it around cases, or you could do it around different responses (legislation, judicial response, international response, etc). A few things you should definitely include:

- CROC, if you do an essay on this topic without this treaty you've done something wrong
- Children and Young Person’s (Care and Protection) Act 1998 (NSW), very important law in this topic
- Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Act 2006 (Cth.), which overlaps with the changing nature of parental responsibility
- The role of Family and Community Services (FACS)

Just a few ideas

Thanks Jamon,

I've decided to discuss the role of FaCS, the FLA in relation to protecting children from Family Violence and Children in Immigration Detention. Obviously, the overlying idea in all the paragraphs is as to whether the Commonwealth and State governments have obliged or breached 'best interests of the child' responsibilities under CROC. Does that sound like a well-rounded group of ideas to discuss?

[jamonwindeyer]

Hi! Just wondering how do you study for legal?? I can't seem to find a lot of trial paper pasts so I don't know how to practice.
Thanks

You name it, we've got a guide on it

[jamonwindeyer]

Thanks Jamon,

I've decided to discuss the role of FaCS, the FLA in relation to protecting children from Family Violence and Children in Immigration Detention. Obviously, the overlying idea in all the paragraphs is as to whether the Commonwealth and State governments have obliged or breached 'best interests of the child' responsibilities under CROC. Does that sound like a well-rounded group of ideas to discuss?

I think that sounds like a great set! Lets you cover a variety of aspects of the law - Good picks

[sweetxpple]

Hi !

For Human Rights, for Australian responses (such as statue law), could i write about the recent crackdown on child sex tourism by introducing statue law (amendment ) that will have Australian paedophiles' passports cancelled and right to travel revoked. I'm not sure about it because its related to CROC article 34 & childrens right, but it doesnt really relate to human rights WITHIN Australia?

thanks!!

[Maddiigracee]

Thanks Jamon! Its definitely enough for now.

Hi! Just wondering how do you study for legal?? I can't seem to find a lot of trial paper pasts so I don't know how to practice.
Thanks

I find getting questions from teachers or looking at my study notes and trying to come up with possible questions they could ask (either for singular dot points or combined dot points) really helpful.

[jamonwindeyer]

Hi !

For Human Rights, for Australian responses (such as statue law), could i write about the recent crackdown on child sex tourism by introducing statue law (amendment ) that will have Australian paedophiles' passports cancelled and right to travel revoked. I'm not sure about it because its related to CROC article 34 & childrens right, but it doesnt really relate to human rights WITHIN Australia?

thanks!!

I think this works! As long as you draw a clear link between child sex offences and breaches of human rights (you'd easily be able to link to stuff in the ICCPR), then that is a nice inclusion