Legal Studies Info

Are Criminal Trials efficient?
In December last year the NSW Attorney General commissioned a special team to evaluate the current criminal trial process. The special group looked at the possible increasing of juries to 15 (then choosing a random 12 to make the verdict), the way juries are chosen, whether juries comprehend their task, the presentation of evidence and the conduct of legal counsel. There is some interesting information which is highly relevant for your course.
For more reading go to HSC Legal Studies media watch page from the State Library.

Alternatively you go to the link on my blog for the LIAC and look at all the links set up for the HSC course. Another good part of this is the Crime Library which is a download which goes through a number of important cases. It is not even recommended that you attempt to remember a number of these cases however you may be looking for important recent cases and here is where you find them.

Lastly the NSW law Reform Commission is a good place to look at recent law changes and the even the upcoming investigations that have been looked at. The one that I looked up recently was on complicity. This involves whether a principal in the second degree is guilty of murder (they did not actually commit the act) if an understanding that a crime will be committed has been agreed upon. Whilst a considerable amount of this is in legal language you can easily see the issues which are being discussed.