Unit 1 Introduction | Headstart for VCE Legal Studies

•Learning aim 1: understanding of the principles of justice: fairness, equality and access

•Learning aim 2: understanding the distinction and relationship between criminal law and civil law.

•Learning aim 3: understanding of the different types of law: criminal law and civil law

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David Thomson OAM, FACE read Arts and Law at Monash University and the University of Cambridge, served as an officer in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Vietnam War and became a teacher, pioneering the teaching of Legal Studies in secondary schools. In his own words, he has had several decades of experience in telling people to stop talking. David is Teacher-in-Residence at the Victoria Law Foundation and a Fellow of the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre at Victoria University.

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Cases mentioned in this video:

DPP v Bull [2021] VCC 1711

Hale v Bellvoir Football Club and Ors [2016] VCC 0222

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Further resources:

Unit 1 factsheet