Thank you so much! Also, not sure if you'll be able to answer this based on the options you may have completed for legal studies, but for those who can, what is the main message we should try to make or send across when writing a family law essay? I understand that each question asks for something different, but we never really got to finish family law before graduation, and I'm kind of nervous about it. With my other option, I always know what I should be revolving my arguments around, but for family, I don't.
Thank you!
Hey! Sorry for the late reply! Family law essays tend to focus on just and equivocal outcomes, on equal access to the law. Surrogacy and same-sex are both around enhancing the law to grant familial rights to more people. Care and protection is about ensuring those outcomes are just to children, and so on. It's a hard thing to generalise, but if I had to, that's how I would do it
The other thing is in relation to Family Law - I'm just wondering with regard to Domestic Violence how one would structure an essay in response to a q like 'how does familly law respond to conflict in families'. My teacher seems to think we should all avoid and do the other q option if we get something specifically with regard to DV but I'm interested in it, but apparently most of the time students end up writing Crime essays and mentioning ADVOs and BOCSAR statistics to discuss effectiveness. I'm just a little bit confused of what you'd write, as she thinks you need to ensure everything is linked to family Law which is understandable cause' it is Family Law - but how would you talk about DV in relation to Family Law without going off into a crime essay. My textbook seems contradictory and talks about ADVOs and so on and the failures of it so I'm just a little unsure of what to do in the case that NESA throws in a cheeky DV q on us.
Thanks all!
Welcome to the forums splimestudios! I can't answer your Workplace question, but I can answer this one
I did DV in my Trial (or HSC? One of them for sure...) and definitely included discussion of ADVO's, and probably BOCSAR statistics too, and did just fine. The trick is to discuss them in a way that relates to Family Law, which as I talk about above, is typically about just outcomes and equal access to the law. It's not about balancing rights of offender and society, or any of those more "crime" centric ideas -
That is the trap to avoid. But I like DV as an essay topic because of that overlap, it makes things easier.
Not to go against your teacher or anything, just saying I did it and was fine (I state ranked, so they can't have disliked it too much, aha)