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VCE Legal Studies - Unit 2, AOS1 Terminology

Based on 2024 Unit 1+2 textbook https://extras.oxforddigital.com.au/extras/student/OB335/assets/new.html
VCE is the Victorian Certificate of Education - This quiz only applies to Victoria, Australia
Includes some terms from Unit 1 which are also relevant in Unit 2
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Definition
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The standard of proof in civil disputes. This requires the plaintiff to establish that it is more probable than not that the claim is true.
Balance of Probabilities
Any order made by a court (or tribunal) designed to address a civil wrong or a breach.
Remedy
The legal responsibility of a third party for the wrongful acts of another.
Vicarious Liability
A disagreement between two or more individuals (or groups) in which one of the individuals (or groups)makes a legal claim against the other.
Civil Dispute
The legal responsibility of a party for loss or harm caused to another party because of a breach of civil law.
Civil Liability
A legal proceeding in which a group of seven or more people have a claim against the same person based on similar or related facts bring that claim to court in the name of one person.
Class Action
An amount of money that one party is ordered to pay to another party for loss or harm suffered.
Damages
A type of tort that involves the action of damaging a person's personal or professional reputation in the community through the communication of false and untrue statements or information.
Defamation
To take civil action against or another person, claiming that they infringed some legal right of the plaintiff.
Sue
A Latin term that literally means 'wrong': a wrong that interferes with a person's legally protected interests.
Tort
The breaking of or failure to fulfil or comply with a duty or obligation.
Breach
The obligation of a party to prove a case.
Burden of Proof
An area of civil law governing the validity and enforceability of agreements made between two or more parties.
Contract Law
The legal obligation to be cautious and careful, keeping other people in mind when doing anything that could harm them. (In relation to negligence)
Duty of Care
A remedy in the form of a court order requiring the defendant to do something or not to do something.
Injunction
The party who makes a legal claim against another party in court in civil disputes.
Plaintiff
The degree or extent to which a case must be proved in court.
Standard of Proof
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