ATS1282 Study Guide - Final Guide: Jargon, For Against, Uptodate
6 Dec 2018
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Week 7: social inequality and access to justice. Equality before the law and due process: being able to use the law. Access - to have entry to: equal opportunity --> various institutions, being dealt with fairly, equitable case outcome/trial. Legal issue dealt with in a proper and adequate way. Important to think about the idea of equality before the law and due process. However system at the operational level discover that this fundamental premise is quite problematic e. g. mid-1990s law reform commission of australia study of biases against women in the legal system. Any findings of unequal treatment necessarily places doubt on the neutrality" of the legal system and cjs. To ask who uses the law, and who does not = crucial to understanding the nature of australian society + the peculiar and specific place of law in reproducing the basic structures of this society.
