Justice and Power exam revision

Define Australian Constitution

• A set of laws and rules that outline how government should be run

• A set of rules that the government ignore

• A book that has a set of rules on how to do stuff

• An old book

Define Political Party

• an organisation that represents a certain group of people or set ideas.

• to have a party with a group of people

• a group of people who like discuss political ideas

• an excuse to drink with your mates

Define Bicameral

• It means 3 chambers

  or three houses

• It means 1 chamber or one house

• It means 0 chambers

  or no houses

• It means 2 chambers or two houses

What is a jury used for in Australia?

• to decide on factual issues and then use the judge's interpretation of the law to come to a decision.

•   to keep everyone out of jail even if they committed crime.

• to send everyone to jail without discussion.

• to determine who the winner of master chef is 

What does the latin term ratio decidendi mean?

• The period of time someone’s jail sentence is.

• It means ‘the constitution’

• Code word for ‘people in jail’.

• "rationale for the decision." The term refers to a key factual point or chain of reasoning in a case that drives the final judgment

What is the area in which a member of parliament represents called?

• Electorate

• The senate

• Empire

• The house of representatives

What does ADR stand for?

• Alternative debate resolving

• Another dispute resolving

• Another debate resolution

• Alternative dispute resolution

Outline the Victorian Court Hierarchy

• county court is the lowest and high court is the highest

• children’s court is above the supreme court

• the Magistrates' Court sits at the bottom of this hierarchy followed by the County Court, then the Supreme Court

• the lowest court is magistrates court and the highest court in Australia is the supreme court

Define adversarial trial

• a system where two opponent sides present their case to a judge or jury

• a system where one person talks to the judge

• when two opponent sides talk to eachother witout a judge

• when the police officer decents who is quilty or not quality 

What are Australia's three levels of government?

• federal, state, local

• high, medium, low

• supreme, high, county

• prime minster, state, town