Activity 5- Categories & Types Assignment 1

1. Read the scenario below.

2. Create a Document with the following:
1. Make a list of the areas of law that may be involved.
2. Separate the various items on your list according to whether they could be
classified as public law or private law.
3. Once you have decided which branch it falls under, decide which branch it
would be considered, i.e. tort, criminal, constitutional, etc
■ PRIVATE- Wedding (Family)

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■ PRIVATE- Company going into liquidation (Commercial)

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■ PUBLIC- A thief shoots someone after robbing a bank with an illegal

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■ PRIVATE- Leased vehicle (Contract)

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■ PRIVATE- House Mortgage (Property)
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■ PRIVATE- Salesman Electric shock (Tort)
■ PRIVATE- Salesman injures his back (Tort)
■ PRIVATE- Neighbour moved fence over property line ( Property)
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■ PUBLIC- You assault your neighbour (Criminal)

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■ PRIVATE- Lost your job ( Labour)

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■ PRIVATE- Selling your home(Property)

■ PRIVATE- Partner wants a divorce (Family)
■ PRIVATE- Parent wants custody of child (Family)
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It is Thanksgiving and you are walking down a busy street. First you pass the church. A
wedding (PRIVATE) party emerges, clapping and laughing. The happy couple have just
made their vows and are now married. Next you pass a computer store and notice that
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an unhappy customer is complaining about the hard drive not working in her new
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computer causing her to miss a deadline at work and consequently lose her job.
(PRIVATE) You hear the manager explain that the computer manufacturer has gone into
liquidation and, therefore, he cannot offer her another identical computer (PRIVATE)
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Just then, you hear a siren, as a thief runs out of the bank, clutching a bag of money. He
knocks over a young man and then shoots him with a small pistol (PUBLIC)

All this activity makes you tired and you get into your leased vehicle and go home to
your mortgaged house (PRIVATE) You put on the radio and your neighbour bangs on

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 the wall, complaining about the noise. Then the door knocks. On the doorstep is a
salesman. He had rung the doorbell before knocking, but it had caused him to suffer an
electric shock. (PRIVATE) You tell him you are not interested in what he is selling and
he reluctantly goes off down the garden path, where he slips on a patch of ice and
injures his back (PRIVATE) Later in the day, you look out of the back window and
discover that while you were out, your neighbour has moved his garden fence and it is
now six inches further into your property than it was this morning (PRIVATE) .Furious,
you go round to tell him what you think, lose your temper, and hit him. (PUBLIC) Then
your employer rings and says that he is making you redundant. It looks as though you
will have to sell your house. ( PRIVATE) Your partner comes home and says that he/she
is leaving, and would like a divorce (PRIVATE)Furthermore, your partner is requesting
to take the children (PRIVATE)

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