Law in Context

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>Contracts are at the heart of our economic system. They are also dear to the hearts of many lawyers, who see contract law as embodying the idea that individuals should...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>The Rule of Law is the starting point for understanding Law in democracies. In this one minute snapshot we say what the Rule of Law is, and what it isn't.</p><p>For more...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>Torts basically are civil wrongs. The law of torts provides remedies for people who have suffered some kind of harm at the hands of another - the tortfeasor. The behaviour...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>For centuries there have been restrictions on suing a judge who has heard your case if you think they got it badly wrong. You could appeal against the decision or, in...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>No criminal justice system is perfect. Sometimes it "miscarries" and innocent people are convicted. The consequences can be devastating for those involved, and sometimes for...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>Being the victim of a crime can be highly traumatic. Some argue that the criminal justice system can make the victim re-live that trauma all over again.</p><p>In this...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>Everyone agrees that Crime and Punishment go together. But that's where the agreement ends. There are multiple aims of punishment: to inflict retribution (an eye for an...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>Most people are fascinated by crime, at least if they are at a safe distance from it. It is the stuff of popular culture and serious scholarship. Theories abound. Might a...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>Like many countries in the world, Australia is a federation; it has more than one tier of government. In this nail-biting episode, the Two Steves explain how our system came...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>All legal systems of previously colonised countries have grappled with the idea of land rights for the original peoples of those countries and the claims of settlers or...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>You might think the idea of property is straightforward. In a way, it is. Almost anything tangible and many things intangible are capable of being property, under the common...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>It's well known that for someone to be found guilty of a crime, the decision-maker must be persuaded "beyond a reasonable doubt". This is the standard of proof. In civil...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>Who should I trust? If your answer is no one, the world would be a more difficult and expensive place. Wherever someone does something on your behalf you might have to...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>In this episode we look at the body of judge-made law called Equity, which emerged in England as a separate body of case law from "the common law". Whereas common law...

<p>Send us a text message with feedback</p><p>We keep hearing about "the common law", but what exactly is it? In this episode, we look at three separate meanings. <br/><br/>First, the common law describes a whole legal...