Your friend Luisa, who is from Spain, is currently in Australia on holidays. Like

you, she is also a studying a business degree (although at a university in

Barcelona) which also involves some law subjects.

Required: Answer the following questions asked of you by Luisa:

(a) What is the name of the legal system which exists in Australia, and from

where did it originate?

(b) What term is used for the legal system which exists in Spain and in

continental Europe, and in countries colonised by some continental

European countries?

(c) With legal systems such as that in Spain, the primary source of law is

written law, known as 'codes'. What are written laws in Australia known as,

and briefly, how are they created?

(d) Luisa understands that there are two Latin expressions used as to the

nature of a decisions made by courts in legal systems such as that in

Australia - explain what they are?

(e) Luisa informs you that Spain has a unitary system of government, and that

this is not the situation in Australia. How is Australia governed, and what

term is used for such a system?