YEAR 7 SOCIAL

SCIENCE
Week 9 Friday

Todays lesson:
1. Prepare to submit your assessment task.
Email swhite@iona.
Or air drop.
Please name the file: the students in the group and the topic
Eg ErinWhiteTopic3
2. Review the teacher activity. Voicethread.
3. Kahoot
4. How can Australians receive access to Justice and legal
representation?

Year 7 Social Science Week 9 Friday

1. Prepare to submit your assessment task.

Email swhite@iona.
Or air drop.
Please name the file: the students in the group and the topic
Eg ErinWhiteTopic3
2. When your task has been submitted, come to me and I have an activity for students to
quickly fill out on a Voicethread. There is a handout for that. This is to review your
teaching experience with me using ICT so suggest to participate you keep moving with
submitting your task. You get to reflect and review your time with me in the class.

Year 7 Social Science Week 9 Friday

Kahoot

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Questions 1-7.

Putting laws into practise.

your rights and responsibilities

It is important to for individuals to understand

legal rights and responsibilities and the Law.
What is a right and responsibility? Look at
images.
Retrieved by https://au.pinterest.com/pin/445997169320795203/

How do you think rights and responsibilities

relate to the context of the Law and legal
system?
e.g. I have the right I have the
responsibility ...
The rules will say ....... The law will
say .............
Share with partner.

How can Australians receive access to Justice and legal

representation?
Chapter 3.4.
There is the opportunity to access justice for all Australians.
But not all Australians can get it for many reasons.
Some people may have little to no understanding of the law.
People with limited English may find it difficult to communicate their
problem.
Some people may feel intimidated by lawyers
or may be unable to pay for legal representation.
Our legal system has devised ways of providing access to justice and legal
representation for everyone.

Legal Aid
Provides access to justice.
Without it, some people would not have legal
representation.
Ensures all people can be treated equally by the
law.
To receive a fair trial.
Is for people who cannot afford the cost of hiring a
lawyer.
It is offered by several organisations including legal
aid commissions, community legal centres, and
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services.

Types of Legal Aid

Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander legal services
A service within each State and
Territory.
Funded by the Federal Government.
Providing legal assistance to Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander people as well as community
education in law and law reform.
Legal aid commissions
Each state and territory has its own legal aid
commission.

Community legal centres

Funded by the state and federal governments.

Related services to the public.

Free legal advice and assistance

Provide legal assistance, legal information and advice, Focus on the disadvantaged and people with
lawyers to represent people attending court, and
special needs.
grants of money to help people to obtain legal
The centres may receive funds from the state
representation.
and federal governments and from donations,
The services of legal aid commissions are free, unless
but some centres receive no or
the legal assistance required is ongoing. In this case, a
Often staffed by volunteers, lawyers or nonsmall financial contribution is required.
lawyers.

Rules are set by individuals and Laws are set by

the government.
The main difference between rules and laws is the
consequences associated with breaking them.
Laws are like the legal version of rules. Whiile
each is developed to invoke a sense of order, fair
play, and safety, the weight of a law is
much heavier than the weight of a rule.

Read more:
Difference Between Rules and Laws | Difference Between http://www.differencebetween.net/language/differencebetween-rules-and-laws/#ixzz4KKFpQI36

Share with neighbour your understanding of this

and an example. Then share where does an
individual gain access to legal representation
should they need it..