RSM225H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sunset Provision, Ultra Vires, Miranda Warning
Document Summary
The law sets basic standards of behaviour that are enforced by government and also by individuals and groups with the help of government. No one can opt out of the legal system; the law binds us. Law influences and controls the behaviour of individuals in society: also prescribes simple but vital rules that allow us to get on with our daily lives (i. e. driving on the right side of the road). Law empowers, influences, and controls the actions of government: government provides policing, fire fighting etc. which are funded through taxes (can be raised). Rule of law: established legal principles that treat all persons equally and that government itself obeys. Public law: law that regulates the conduct of government and the relations between government and private persons. Private law: law that regulates the relations between private persons and groups of private persons.
