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Exploring ideas from Access to Justice

These activities could be used after working through The Crime and/or That's My Idea! on the website.

5. Steps to justice

Do you know what happens to:

  1. a person accused of a crime?
  2. a person who thinks someone else stole their good idea?

Design a flow diagram showing, in steps, what could happen next. Then check out The Crime and/or That's My Idea! and make adjustments to your flow diagram.

6. Overview of the New Zealand judicial system

Give the students some or all of the following words to link together in a structured overview:

  • Parliament
  • Executive
  • Judiciary
  • Judge
  • Courts system
  • High Court
  • District Court
  • Court of Appeal
  • Supreme Court
  • Youth Court
  • Civil courts
  • Criminal courts

The students could use online resources from Access to Justice to complete this, or they could do it "cold" and then rework it after using the online resources.

7. Our legal system

Talk about the three different areas of government (Parliament, the Executive Council, and the Judiciary) and their respective spheres of influence. The students copy the flow diagram. Perhaps they could add a simple visual to help them to remember the main areas.

8. The role of different courts

In pairs, your students research the roles of the different courts and report back to the class. Alternatively, do this as an "expert jigsaw". Each group has information about a different court. They become "experts" on this court, and then they move to another group and teach the other people in that group and are in turn taught about the other courts.