Hey everyone!
Just wondering, how is everyone preparing for the HSC legal studies exam?
What's the next step after knowing all your content and whats the most efficient process to prepare?
I feel like writing different essays is too time consuming?! What are your thoughts?
Are essay plans enough for preparation?
Sorry, Im just really stressed because the style of studying for legal is completely different from my other subjects and its quite tricky!
Thankyou in advance
hi! past papers are the best way to prepare, but if you really can't be bothered writing essays, essay plans are a decent substitute - but they don't measure up to actually writing an essay. if you have a whiteboard, writing all your LCMs there is a good idea. answering questions here on the forums and teaching your friends is also a really great way to study. you can talk about essay questions and how you would answer them, which really gets you to practice arguing - setting you up for when you write an essay!
best of luck,
fantasticbeasts
Hi!
In reference to crime and the criminal investigation process, how long can a suspect be detained before they either have to be charged or released? My textbook says 4 hours or 8 if a warrant is applied for, but my teacher said that that might have changed in the last year to 6 hours. Does anyone know?
Thanks!
hey! i did a bit of research on this just then, and your textbook seems to be right!
link to where i found this information here :-)For the different categories of crime e.g. offences against the person and all the crimes within that e.g. murder, manslaughter - do you need to know the max sentences for all of these? Ik that these 2 examples are easy, but memorising the max sentence for a death by reckless driving charge just seems so minute and unimportant
Also, are principals in the 2nd degree required to be present during the carrying out of the crime?
if you think it's not that important to remember it, go with your instincts :-) it could be a great detail to use. i've never memorised any maximum sentences for any crime this year, and this year has been pretty alright... but yea.
yea, principals in the 2nd degree are present during the crime, because if you're an accessory to the crime, that person is there to plan or maybe help out after.
best of luck everyone,
fantasticbeasts