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Legal Studies Essay

Equality is all about equal treatment. It means that everyone is treated the same. That is all people are entitled to enjoy the same rights and opportunities and no-one should be privileged or disadvantaged. Equality is an objective concept. That is we can judge on the facts presented to us whether or not people have been given equal treatment or opportunity.

Fairness aims to achieve equal outcomes. It doesn’t allow for bias or prejudice. Fairness ideally is a part of all laws, but the reality is some laws are unfair. This is because to be fair wouldn’t be a good thing. Laws are required to be more than fair, but also just.

            The law can be very confusing to people who are not involved in it personally. Reasons to why people may find law confusing is because of the law jargon. Complex language is used that the general public can’t understand. An example of law jargon is the word testimony. Testimony is the statement made by a witness in court, usually under oath, that is offered as evidence for the truth of what is has been stated. Another reason to why the law may be confusing is that lawyers may be the only ones who understand it. Lawyers understand all laws and know what consequences will occur once breaking the law. The public find this confusing and are unaware of laws and may think that what they are doing is right when it is a law breaking offence.

            We are presented with a very different image of the law through television. The law that we are presented with on television is very different from the real situation which happens in court. There are many different law programs shown on television which show the courts and have a court case laid out for them to handle. Examples of programs which are based around law are;

Ų     Law and Order – Ten

Ų     Law and Order SVU - Ten

Ų     Judging Amy - Ten

Ų     The Practise - Seven

Ų     The Bill – ABC

Ų     Ally McBeal – Seven

Ų     The Monk – Ten

Other shows aren’t based around court scenes, but include the law.

Ų     Blue Heelers – Seven

Ų     CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – Nine

Ų     Without a Trace – Nine

Ų     Third Watch – Nine

Ų     Stingers – Nine

Ų     Water Rats – Nine

Ų     White Collar Blue - Ten

These shows may, at times, give the viewers a different image of what may actually happen in the court in real life.

            Our perception of the law is effected by our background in a severe way. The way we were brought up is what plays a factor in our perception of the law. For example, Aboriginal children have been brought up in the way that if they see a policeman/policewomen it means bad things for them and they should run. A great example of this is that of what happened 3 weeks ago with the death of T.J Hickey. Whilst riding his bike, he saw a police car patrolling the streets, and started to ride faster in fear. He ended up impaling himself into a fence. The factors to why he was running away from the police has yet to of been decided by the Coroner.

Justice has two meanings;

1.      Whether a decision is good or fair according to universal principals, and,

2.      Refers to ven...

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