Legal+Studies

** ﻿ ** ** TASK2: ** ** Use the website ** [|www.lawstuff.org.au] ** to help you provide advice or answers to the following problems: **
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1. // Shelly's mobile phone was her absolute pride and joy. She has been very upset since it was lost or stolen at a party on Friday night. She has only had the mobile since her 15th birthday in July. Her parents signed her up for a 24 month contract. The company has refused to cancel the contract and expects Shelly (or her parents) to pay-out the remainder of the contract. Can she avoid paying? //

2. // Zeeta is only 16 years old but looks much older. She desperately wants a tatoo of her boyfriend's face on her shoulder even though her parents' disapprove. //

// Is it different if she gets her parents permission first before having a tattoo of her boyfriend’s face on her shoulder? //

3. // Roberto's Uncle Sal gave him $20 and sent him to the corner shop to buy a packet of cigarettes. Roberto is only 11 years old and because the shopkeeper knows him and his uncle well he sells him the cigarettes. A policeman greets Roberto as he leaves the store holding the cigarettes. // 4. // Shamlina and her parents fled from the Taliban in Afganistan and have now settled in Australia as refugees. In Afganistan more than 50 percent of young girls are married before they are 16 years old. This is the custom and Shamlina's parents have promised her in marriage to her 38 year old second cousin even though she is only 10 years old. Plans are being made for Shamlina to marry him on her 11th Birthday. // // Will this marriage be recognised in Australia? //

5. // Francis Henry Wallace Bertrand Godfrey Jones Jnr has just finished Year 10. He has never liked his long name and wants to change it simply to Jason Jones. Can he do this and what is required? //

Answer ALL parts to these case studies in your Workbooks