A focused full-day Legal Studies intensive for the final weeks before the 2026 HSC. Reconnect Crime, Human Rights and the skills that apply across the two options studied at school, then practise using legal sources, contemporary examples and evaluative criteria in HSC-style responses.
Date
Tuesday 29 September
Time
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Campus
Macquarie University — room TBC
Availability
30 places left
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Legal Studies · Full course intensive
HSC Legal Studies rewards students who can apply legal knowledge to a contemporary issue, integrate legislation, cases, media and statistics, and make a supported judgement about law, justice and society. This workshop brings the compulsory core and the shared examination skills for option topics together through guided HSC-style practice.
Best for
Year 12 Legal Studies students who know their content but want a clearer method for source questions, contemporary examples, extended responses, legal evaluation and adapting their knowledge to unfamiliar HSC questions.
Aligned to the 2026 HSC
Legal Studies Stage 6 Syllabus (2009)
The 2026 HSC Legal Studies examination is based on the 2009 syllabus. The replacement 2025 syllabus begins Year 12 in Term 4, 2027 and has its first HSC examination in 2028.
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The Year 12 course
The day connects the Year 12 course with the examination skills students need to apply it.
Core Part I
Examine how criminal law operates from investigation through to trial, sentencing and punishment. Practise applying legal terminology, legislation, cases, media and contemporary issues to evaluate the effectiveness of legal and non-legal responses in achieving justice.
Key language: criminal investigation · criminal trial process · sentencing and punishment · young offenders · international crime · law reform · legal and non-legal measures · justice
Core Part II
Connect the nature and development of human rights with Australian and international protection mechanisms. Practise using legal sources and contemporary examples to assess how effectively rights are recognised, protected and enforced.
Key language: nature and development of human rights · Australian human rights framework · international human rights framework · human rights issues · enforcement · law reform · legal and non-legal responses
Options · students study two at school
Schools study different Legal Studies options. The workshop focuses on the transferable skills students need across their own two options: organising contemporary examples, integrating legal sources, applying evaluative criteria and adapting knowledge to the wording of the question.
Key language: contemporary examples · legislation · cases · media · international instruments · legal and non-legal measures · evaluative criteria · law reform
Across the day
01 · Reconnect
Review the relationships between law, justice and society, plus the terminology and evaluative criteria students need to use accurately.
02 · Decode
Identify the issue, directive verb, relevant legal sources and the type of judgement needed before writing.
03 · Plan
Move from a direct contention to a purposeful sequence of legal knowledge, contemporary examples, analysis and evaluation.
04 · Practise
Attempt source-based, short-answer and extended-response questions using the decisions required in the examination.
05 · Refine
Review approaches with the teacher, correct unsupported claims and strengthen links between legal sources, evidence and the final judgement.
Practice and feedback
Students work through source-based, short-answer and extended-response tasks. The teacher models how to identify the legal issue, select relevant legislation, cases and contemporary examples, apply evaluative criteria and build a reasoned argument. Students then practise, compare approaches, ask questions and improve their responses through live guided feedback. The workshop is not advertised as a separate individual marking service.
Select and integrate legislation, cases, media, international instruments, expert opinions and statistics that directly support an argument.
Develop a direct contention and explain how legal and non-legal measures operate in practice rather than listing information.
Use relevant criteria such as accessibility, enforceability, responsiveness and achievement of justice to reach a supported conclusion.
Select the most relevant examples and adjust the response to the specific legal issue and directive verb.
Included with the workshop
Every student receives a subject-specific workbook containing concise core notes, legal terminology, HSC-style source and extended-response questions, contemporary-example planning guides, evaluation frameworks and space to annotate worked approaches. Students work through it during the workshop and can continue using it in the final weeks before the HSC.
Clear reminders of the concepts, legal sources and evaluation language required across the course.
Questions that develop legal-source selection, contemporary application and sustained evaluative writing.
Practical structures for unpacking questions, forming a contention, using legal sources and making a justified judgement.
Teacher modelling, live guided feedback, opportunities to ask questions and a focused room where students can compare useful approaches.
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Marking insights and exemplars
Schools study different Legal Studies options. The day focuses on the shared legal skills students can apply to their own two options, while examples and discussion make those skills concrete.
Yes. Students practise how to select, organise and use contemporary legal examples as evidence within a response, rather than simply memorising a list of cases or media stories.
Yes. The September 2026 workshop uses the Legal Studies Stage 6 Syllabus (2009), which remains the syllabus examined for the 2026 HSC. The replacement 2025 syllabus is first examined in the 2028 HSC.
Year 12 students preparing for their final school assessments and the 2026 HSC examinations.
Bring a laptop or tablet if you use one for study, writing materials, water and lunch. Your workshop resources are provided.
Building, room and arrival instructions are sent by email with the ticket and again before the workshop.
Yes. Add any three workshops in one order and the $75 bundle saving is applied automatically at checkout.
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