Help with a Legal Studies Assignment?

Hey so I just got my Legal Studies task sheet for out latest assignment and its pretty much 'research any law you want and tell me about it.
So i decided i might look into doing the laws surrounding skateboarding.

I was wondering if anyone had any

1) Sections of the law which are relevant?
2) Actual cases of people being charged for skating 'offences'

3) Run in's with the police and what happened

4) Personal opinions about the laws surrounding skateboarding

I have started searching through the forums and net, its just i wanted to get fresh news and keep in in the one place :)

Thanks heaps!

Tags: accident, court, ins, law, police, run

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on July 11, 2011 at 21:48

Police catagorise a lot because it is the easiest way to asses a situation. Skateboard = school dropout, criminal and general pest. It's the way most police officers treat me anyway. Was once stopped and asked for ID as there had been break ins and car thefts in the area... then asked if I was going to the skatepark (I was on a longboard). On the up side, they either did not know the laws surrounding the use of skateboards or didn't mind that I was bombing my local main road...

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Permalink Reply by Alex Ker on July 11, 2011 at 23:13

cheers guys

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Permalink Reply by Alex Ker on July 12, 2011 at 18:45

any more?

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Permalink Reply by Boomhauer on July 14, 2011 at 2:18

One time me and me mate were walkin past the coppers and he said fuk da police and one of them grabed him by the shirt and held him dey.let.him go though good times

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Permalink Reply by Sabrina Hennessy on July 26, 2011 at 12:54

Yeah Jack Nolan speaks alot of sense. If its your yr 12 independant study (which im guessing it is from that question) you'll want to pick a topic that will give you HEAPS of info and a huge range of different sources and views. Otherwise you just won't get the points, no matter how brilliantly written you're assignment is. I did my independant study last year and I did counter-terrorism laws. There's so much controversy on it that I had to deal with too much information, as opposed to too little. With a relatively obscure (yes i know skating isn't obscure, but the legislation on it is) topic like skating, you won't have the sources you need to quote the shit out of you're essay :P point being, go for something that you know will have a tonne of info on it. And a really long pdf with the entire legislation written out as well is always helpful :P oh and you'll get extra points for comparing the laws on your topic in Australia to other countries.
And yes, I pretty much just sounded like a collossal nerd. But I graduated top of legal, so take my advice!
Btw, was that really the assignment question? Lol sounds like the head of legal studies department isn't that bright :P Ours was so convoluted it was like 5 pages long. Thank god I'm finished school

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