QCE Legal StudiesPractice Examination 20

This paper covers

• Counter-terrorism detention powers and the right to liberty and fair trial
• ICCPR Articles 9 and 14
• Proportionality of Australian security legislation
• Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979 (Cth)
• Anti-Terrorism Act (No 2) 2005 (Cth)
• Control orders and preventive detention orders
• UDHR Article 9, ICCPR Article 9 and Article 14
• Australian constitutional protections and their limitations
• Human rights in criminal contexts: right to silence, presumption of innocence, fair trial
• International human rights enforcement mechanisms and their limitations
• Law reform: criteria of justice, fairness, accessibility, effectiveness and proportionality
• Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth)
• Implied freedom of political communication (Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
• UN Human Rights Committee and treaty body review
• Three generations of rights and justiciability of international obligations

Students are permitted to bring into the examination the materials normally allowed for this subject. Answer all questions in the spaces provided.

This is an ATARMAxxing practice paper. It is not an official examination and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the VCAA, NESA or the QCAA.