pig_93 said:
again just to reiterate my point earlier,
finding the effectiveness of the legal system IS BULLSHIT AND I NEED HELP WITH IT. thanks friends for hearing me out
hopefully joe will come to my rescue with some insightful words...?
I’m not joe but I hope this are some insightful words of help!!
Effectiveness of the legal system:
Here are some points to consider:
- Efficiency – is it time efficient?
A lot of the time trials take a long time to come to court so it wastes time and also if in the end someone is found not guilty and a grave miscarriage of justice is done it then costs a lot to compensate for that. Also between the lengths of time the victim may also start to forget parts of the incident making the evidence inconsistent.
- Effectiveness – does it achieve justice?
Here you can talk about the Adversary system and how it is used to try and achieve justice because you have two parties who are contesting their cases and through cross examination and evidence put forward the judge and jury (non bias parties) will hand down a sentence.
- Talk about various case studies
For example: if you want to talk about the good ones and how they have been effective for the victims in achieving justice you could talk about RvSkaf (2002) and how the victim of this case got the maximum penalty for the perpetrator. And then when you want to talk about the cons you can talk about the RvChamberland case where she was found guilty and sentenced but then released because really she was innocent.
- Non effectiveness of the legal system
Here you can talk about how the Australian legal system isn’t that effective because it is still has a lot of flaws with cases to do with Aborigines and how they are discriminated against in the legal system. Because they are a targeted group there have been cases where there has been a grave miscarriage of justice.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Law
Here you can talk about how the Australian legal system is not incorporating customary law and recognizing it as a type of punishment. Judges also consider this when handing down sentences.
- Morals, ethics and standards of society
Here you can talk about the legal system reflecting societies morals and ethics. The legal system changes according to what society wants vice versa. The various types of penalties reflect what society believes is wrong or right.
And if your question is an evaluate or assess question don’t forget to make judgment at the end after analyzing all your information. Coz there’s always a mark for that.
Hope it helps mate
