Rights And Responisbilities

• Rights


  A privilege granted by a governing body that is written into law; a right can be defended or challenged in a court of law
• Responsibilities


  Legal or moral obligations that a person may have to another person/group/state/society; responsibility to act in a certain way
• Types of individual rights

  • Statutory Rights
  • Explicit Rights
  • Implied/Moral Rights
  • Constitutional Rights
• Responsibilities stem from rights - Responsibility to respect others rights
• Right to life (s.291) - killing a human being is unlawful unless such killing is authorised or justified or excused by law - thus we as a society have the responsibility to take another's life
• Rights


  Responsibilities come with rights
• Individuals have a right

  Individuals have a responsibility to respect the rights of others
• An individual's rights


  Exist up until the point that they infringe on someone else's
• Education Act 1990 (NSW)

  • Establishes the relationship between rights and responsibilities which outlines all children's right to education up to the age of 16 correlating with both the parents responsibility to ensure their child's attendance, and the State's responsibility to provide free and accessible public education
• Donoghue v Stevensen


  • Establishes individuals have the right to be protected from harm, and this right is safeguarded by the corresponding responsibility of the producer to act with a duty of care
• Some rights


  Have conflicting interests on each other, as seen through the Freedom of Association but their infringement is seen the ABC's article on NSW Biking Consorting Laws where this freedom of association is infringed on with the protection of the individual
• Responsibilities and rights are interrelated as individuals have a responsibility to respect the rights of others, and an individual's rights exist up until the point that they infringe on someone else's