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Term 3 Week 4-6





 Week 7-8




Weeks 9-10

Students learn about:


1.0 The Legal Framework
        1.1 Reasons for laws
        1.2 The legal system
        1.3 Court Structure
        1.4 Juries


2.0 Areas of Law
        2.1 Classifying laws
        2.2 How laws are made
        2.3 The relationship of laws to values, morals and ethics
        2.4 How laws are changed


3.0 Using the legal systems
        3.1 Accessing the law; cost, time, procedures, language
        3.2 Issues of fairness in using the law