Investigating Legal Studies for Queensland Third Edition provides accessible and engaging coverage of the new syllabus, delivered with a range of new tools to lead to QCE success.
What’s NEW in this edition:
- Each syllabus topic is now covered in a single chapter, so that topic-specific content, summary notes, and activities, including exam-style questions, can be found in the one place.
- Key Legal Studies skills are targeted with new content: ‘Strategies for writing effectively in Legal Studies’ and ‘Strategies for revision and tackling assessment tasks in Legal Studies’.
- New engaging video content by co-author Anthony Marinac extend case studies and introduces students to important syllabus content.
- New case studies include the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Dell Computers [2002] in Year 11 and Sharma v Minister for the Environment [2022] in Year 12.
- Case studies, including recent and classic legal cases, are presented with additional scaffolding to help students unpack the legal issues of the case.
- A new subheading included for each case study, ‘Obiter Dicta/something to think about’, draws out an engaging aspect of each case.
- New concept maps are graphical representations of each topic and a useful revision tool.
- New downloadable study cards help students understand the key things they need to know per topic.
- The use of real legal terminology, along with a consistent approach to unpacking the citation for each case study helps embed legal concepts and prepare students for assessment scenarios.
- A range of exam-style end-of-topic questions (Short-response, Extended response and Response-to-stimulus questions) help students become familiar with the types of questions they will encounter in their assessments, including the external exam.
- New ‘Off the record’ breakout boxes provide additional legal items of interest.
Contents:
UNIT 1 Beyond reasonable doubt
1 Topic 1 - Legal Foundations
2 Topic 2 - Criminal investigation processes
3 Topic 3 - Criminal trial process
4 Topic 4 - Punishment and sentencing
Unit 2 Balance of probabilities
5 Topic 1 - Civil law foundations
6 Topic 2 - Contractual obligations
7 Topic 3 - Negligence and duty of care
Unit 3 Law, governance and change
8 Topic 1 - Governance in Australia
9 Topic 2 - Law reform within a dynamic society
Unit 4 - Human rights in legal contexts
10 Topic 1 - Human rights
11 Topic 2 - Australia's legal response to international law and human rights
12 Topic 3 - Human rights in Australian contexts
Contents are subject to change prior to publication