Legal Studies

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Role of the VLRC. Use an example to support your answer.

Back 1

The Victoria law reform commissions (VLRC) is an independent, government funded organisation that develops, make recommendations, monitors, coordinates and educated law reform in Victoria.

The roles of the VLRC is too make law reform recommendations on matters referred to by the attorney general and to make recommendations on minor legal issues of general community concern.

Front 2

Example for the VLRC.

Back 2

Supporting young people in police interviews: The organisation believed that the rights of young people during police interviews where not being adequately exercised. So the VLRC recommended that young people have a person over the age of eighteen otherwise known as a support person present at all times during the interview to help them understand and exercise their rights, protecting the young person against incriminating themselves.

Front 3

Definition and evaluation of demonstrations.

Back 3

A demonstration is a public display of sympathy or support for a particular change in the law.

Strength and weakness:

They attract the media's attention, highlighting the issue and increasing the chances of parliamentarians listening to their views. For example, all teachers across Victoria in 2013 marched from hisence arena to spring street, yelling and screaming their demands for better pay and working conditions to be met. However, the media can distort the image they were trying to get across and relate the demonstration to riots. People tend to lose their self control when doing a demonstration that they're passionate about, therefore the media can take one persons wrong doing and blow it out of proportion.

In my opinion, I believe that demonstrations can be effective as it is out of what we consider to be normal, therefore a big group of people yelling and screaming automatically draws the media's attention, making sure the issue has been highlighted by broadcasting it on the news.