How does Australias legal system attempt to ensure fairness and to protect people?
Conduct all activities. Produce a handout from the image in Activity 4 ‘Courtroom scene’. Activity 1 | Activity 2 | Activity 3 | Activity 4 | Activity 5 | Assessment task Activity 1: Civil and criminal law Vocabulary: civil law, criminal law. • Introduce the distinction between criminal law situations and civil law situations. A two-column diagram with simple graphics, for example, tree overhanging fence, will assist comprehension. • Conduct the listing of problems as a group brainstorm. • Consider using a suitable video image, such as from an Australian crime serial, to demonstrate the main parties in a criminal court trial. Alternatively, use the handout ‘Courtroom scene’, adding labels for each party, for example, judge, jury and so on. Note: the handout is used again in Activity 4. AND/OR Visit a local court then act out a trial. Activity 2: Saxon law Vocabulary: barbaric customs, feud, retaliation, presumed guilty, trial by ordeal, grasp, wound, blistered, entitled. • For 2a read
