Lesson 01

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Kirsten Le

Cards (11)

  • Civil Law
    Regulates disputes between individuals, groups and organisations
    Enables people to enforce their rights where harm has occured.
  • Purposes of Civil Law
    Achieve Social Cohesion
    Protect rights of individuals
    Provide an avenue for people to seek compensation
  • Civil Law achieves its purpose
    Establishes the law
    Decides the law
    Enforces the law
  • Types of Civil Law
    Defamation
    Negligence
    Contract
    Nuisance
    Wills
  • Achieve Social Cohesion
    Provide guidelines for acceptable behaviour so that people can live in harmony.
  • Protect rights of individuals
    To be protected from false statements that might damage your reputation
    Right to a promise made under a contract
    Right not to be harmed
  • Provide an avenue for people to seek compensation
    Ability for a person whose rights have been infringed to return (as much as possible) to the position they were in before the harm.
    Remedies: damages and injuction(s)
  • Defamation
    Ensure a person's reputation is not harmed because of false statements that are made about that person.
  • Nuisance
    People have the right to enjoy and use their land/public land free from interference or annoyance
  • Contract
    Stick to promises under a contract
  • Negligence
    Ensure reasonable duty of care to prevent foreseeable risk to others.