Part 1 - The legal system
Topic 1: Basic legal notions
Scenario 1 - Anarchy, rules and law
Topic 2: Sources of law
Scenario 2 - Sources of contemporary law
Topic 3: The constitutional system in Australia
Scenario 3 - The High Court and constitutional interpretation
Topic 4: The operation of the legal system
Scenario 4 - Court procedures and alternatives
Part II - The individual and the state
Topic 5: Power and authority
Scenario 5 - Relationship of the individual to power and authority
Topic 6: Legal controls on state power
Scenario 6 - Formal and informal means of challenging power
Topic 7: Duties
Scenario 7 - Duties: domestic
Topic 8: Rights
Scenario 8 - Rights: domestic
Part III - Law in focus
Focus group 1: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Scenario 9 - Status under the law
Scenario 10 - Mechanisms for achieving justice
Scenario 11 - Responsiveness of the legal system
Focus group 2: People who have a mental illness or intellectual or physical disability
Scenario 12 - Status under the law
Scenario 13 - Mechanisms for achieving justice
Focus group 3: Migrants
Scenario 14 - Status under the law
Scenario 15 - Mechanisms for achieving justice
Scenario 16 - Responsiveness of the legal system
Focus group 4: People who are socioeconomically disadvantaged
Scenario 17 - Mechanisms for achieving justice
Scenario 18 - Responsiveness of legal system
Focus group 5: Women
Scenario 19 - Status under the law
Scenario 20 - Mechanisms for achieving justice
Scenario 21 - Responsiveness of the legal system
Focus group 6: Members of other groups covered by human rights legislation, including anti-discrimination legislation
Scenario 22 - Status under the law
Scenario 23 - Mechanisms for achieving justice