LS101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Consideration, Endangerment, United States Constitution
13 Dec 2015
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Overview of legal concepts and the legal system: Modern complex societies: regulate behaviour through informal norms and social control, require laws and formal control agencies. Judges: advocates who represents clients and seek advantages for them, are partial and not objective, highest authority in the court system, expected to be knowledgeable, fair, and impartial. Maintain social control and ensure social order. Major mechanisms: dispute, conflict resolution and social change. Rights based: convincing the parties that it is in their own interest to do so. A body of law created by administrative agencies in the form of regulations, orders and. Administrative tribunals deal with conflicts relating to administrative or regulatory statues. Administrative law: decisions: these tribunals are called: boards, commissions, committees, councils, agencies, etc. Have authority over narrowly prescribed areas of law. Offer an open, speedy, and cost effective way of resolving disputes. A group of individuals who influences decisions made by the government (to smoking) make the government change certain laws)
